QUEBEC – Quebecor announced today it will air a debate between four political party leaders on Sept. 2 at 8 p.m. on TVA, LCN, QUB Radio, and their digital platforms.
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-François Blanchet and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh have all been invited to the debate. TVA’s Pierre Bruneau will host.
There will also be a pre-debate broadcast aired at 6 p.m. and a post-debate broadcast at 10 p.m. with analysts.
Earlier this week, the Debate Broadcast Group announced French and English-language debates will be held at the Canadian Museum of History in…
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Conservatives release 83-page electoral platform
By Denis Carmel
The recently announced federal election officially signals the death of Bill C-10.
In dissolving the House of Commons, any “incomplete business is terminated, including government and private members’ bills,” reads the House of Commons website.
This includes Bill C-10, the legislation intended to modernize the Broadcasting Act.
So much work for nothing is distressing but it also illustrates the difficulty of legislating in today’s world, especially with a minority government.
Assuming a new government reintroduces the same bill or a new one, they will have to start from scratch. So those 159 witnesses, 55 briefs tabled, 28 meetings…
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CBC’S DIGITAL AND STREAMING platforms grew record-high audiences over the course of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, with Canadians streaming more than 37 million video views, a 62% increase over the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics, according to a CBC press release today.
CBC platforms include CBC.ca, the CBC Olympics App and CBC Gem. Live views made up 61% of all video views across CBC’s digital platforms, and connected TVs accounted for about 68% of the total time spent streaming Tokyo 2020 content on CBC Gem, the release says.
“In total, Canadians consumed nearly 17 million hours of digital Olympic content on…
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TORONTO — It is no surprise to anyone the pandemic has seen an increase in streaming among Canadians, but a new report from Roku reveals just how ubiquitous streaming services have become.
Based on its own research conducted in collaboration with Fuse Insights, as well as estimates using Media Technology Monitor (MTM) data up to fall 2020, as cited by CBC, Roku says in its report 77% of Canadians were watching streaming TV services by the end of 2020.
In the last 12 months, 46% of Canadian TV streamers have signed up for a new streaming service, and 60% of Canadians…
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TORONTO — Canada-based global distribution group Blue Ant International announced today it has acquired the international licensing rights to Spirit to Soar, a one-hour documentary inspired by Tanya Talaga’s award-winning book, Seven Fallen Fathers, which brought attention to the uninvestigated deaths of seven Indigenous high school students in northern Ontario between 2000 and 2011.
The documentary looks at how the book came to Talaga (above), an Anishinaabe storyteller and journalist, when she travelled to Thunder Bay on a federal election assignment and discovered the story of the seven Indigenous youth who had either died or gone missing.
“This documentary examines the…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC announced today in Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2021-266 it has administratively renewed the CBC’s broadcasting licences from September 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022, and extended the distribution orders for CBC News Network, ICI RDI and ICI ARTV until March 31, 2022.
The Corporation’s licences were previously administratively renewed from September 1, 2020, to August 31, 2021, and the distribution orders for CBC News Network, ICI RDI and ICI ARTV were previously extended until August 31, 2021.
The public hearings for the CBC’s licence renewals took place in January.
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ST. JOHNS – CBC and Lionsgate announced today they have partnered up with Schitt’s Creek producer Andrew Barnsley and comedian-actor-writer Mark Critch on a new comedy series, Son of a Critch, created by Critch and Tim McAuliffe (The Office, Lase Man on Earth).
Based on Critch’s best-selling memoir, Son of a Critch “is the hilarious and very real story of 11-year-old Mark coming of age in St. John’s, Newfoundland in the 80s,” says a press release. “It’s a heartfelt window into the life of a child – much older inside than his 11 years – using comedy and self-deprecation to win…
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SINCE THE BEGINNING of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games until Monday, July 26, more than half of all Canadians have watched TV coverage of the Games on CBC/Radio-Canada, with 20.3 million viewers tuning in on an English or French TV network to date, according to a CBC/Radio-Canada press release citing Numeris TV meter data.
In addition, CBC says it is marking record digital audiences for Tokyo 2020, with Canadians consuming 8.4 million video views on CBC digital platforms so far, which represents a 65% increase compared to the same period during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games.
CBC’s digital and streaming platforms…
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TORONTO — RiverTV, the live TV and on-demand streaming channel platform launched by VMedia a year ago, announced today it has added several CBC/Radio-Canada channels to its core package.
As of today, CBC/Radio-Canada’s English- and French-language local channels and all-news channels CBC News Network and ICI RDI are available as part of RiverTV’s monthly core-package subscription, which continues to be priced at $16.99, says a press release.
In addition, documentary Channel, ICI ARTV and ICI Explora will be available as add-ons, says the release.
“RiverTV is excited to include the CBC/Radio-Canada suite of channels in our lineup,” said Alexei Tchernobrivets, CEO…
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OTTAWA – Media Technology Monitor (MTM) today released a sneak peek report for its Spring 2021 data analysis of Canadian media habits.
The report “explores our top findings on how Canadians are redefining their media habits as we slowly emerge from the pandemic,” a press release says.
MTM, a division of CBC, included data for Northern Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut), which shows satellite television “is more than twice as common in the North than in the average Canadian household,” although cable television is the primary way Northern Canadians receive television signals, according to the release.
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