USING GOOGLE’S OFFICIAL CANADA blog, Jeanette Patell, head of public policy for YouTube Canada, posted a statement today about Bill C-10, the bill which would modernize the Broadcasting Act, in which she says the company supports the federal government’s goal of modernizing broadcasting and promoting Canadian artists, but adds concern about the potential negative impact of such legislation on YouTube’s Canadian creators.
In the blog post, titled “A Note on Bill C-10: Standing with Canadian creators and their fans”, Patell writes: “Making sure that people can find and enjoy all of this quality Canadian content is a big priority…
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TORONTO — Canadian actors and brothers Shamier Anderson and Stephan James (above, left to right), co-founders of The Black Academy, and Insight Productions today announced an exclusive three-year partnership with CBC to broadcast Canada’s first-ever award show honouring Black talent.
Planned for fall 2022, The Black Academy’s award show will celebrate established and emerging Black Canadian talent across film, television, music, sports and culture, with a live telecast on CBC TV and CBC Gem which will feature award presentations, performances and tributes. Award categories, the submission process, and additional information will be announced at a later date, says The Black…
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By Greg O’Brien
TORONTO – The Canadian broadcasting industry lost one of its leading thinkers and a “friend to all” on Monday when Gary Maavara died of cancer. He was 68.
His career in broadcasting spanned more than 40 years with CTV, Canwest and Corus Entertainment where he spent time on with just about every division, including legal, operations, engineering, sports, and government relations.
“Broadcasting was in his blood,” said John Cassaday, who was Maavara’s boss both at CTV and later at Corus, in an interview on Wednesday. “He loved it. He was pulling cable at CFTO as a teenager and pulling…
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By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU – On April 21, 2021, Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) filed an application with the CRTC proposing to stabilize the funding of the Broadcasting Participation Fund (BPF) but as of today, May 26th, the CRTC has not yet posted the Part I application to its website, therefore a process has not yet been initiated.
“Time is of the essence in this matter, as the Broadcasting Participation Fund (BPF) faces potential revenue shortfalls and exhaustion, in part due to the paucity of tangible benefits orders resulting from media…
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TORONTO — Coinciding with the launch of its A Death in Cryptoland podcast today, CBC Podcasts announced it is adding two more true-crime offerings to its lineup this spring.
The Next Call is a new investigative series from the creators of the popular Someone Knows Something podcast. Exploring unsolved cases in a pandemic-restricted world, host David Ridgen uncovers new information in each case through phone and video calls with victims’ family members, the police and even potential suspects. The first case looks into the disappearance of 15-year-old Melanie Ethier who vanished without a trace in the early morning…
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By Denis Carmel
OTTAWA – Experts designated by each party visited the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on Monday to further discussing Bill C-10, the legislation which aims to modernize the Broadcasting Act.
The work of the committee has been at a standstill since April 30, and today’s discussion, which was often centred around freedom of expression and whether C-10 will impact what Canadians post on social media, gave little hope that the clause-by-clause consideration process, which should be the bulk of the committee’s work at this stage would resume anytime soon.
The experts are well known: Michael Geist, Canada research chair…
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TORONTO — CBC and Radio-Canada Media Solutions today announced the hiring of Hisham Ghostine (above) as executive director of sales, marketing and Olympics for Toronto and Western Canada, effective today.
Ghostine’s appointment follows the retirement of Mary Kreuk at the end of April. He will be based out of Toronto.
With more than 20 years of agency experience in the industry, Ghostine left his position as CEO of media and performance brands at Dentsu Aegis Network in Canada in December and spent a short time with Torstar, according to a report from Media in Canada. Previously, he has served as a…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) announced this week MXZN, a Canadian company focused on delivering high quality video content, to the Canadian Paralympic Media Consortium as an official partner.
The Canadian Paralympic Media Consortium is the official broadcaster of the Paralympic Games in Canada and MXZN joins a family of partners, including broadcasters CBC, Radio-Canada, AMI and Sportsnet, and digital partners Twitter and Facebook, who together bring coverage of the country’s Paralympians back to Canadians from coast to coast to coast.
MXZN, a riff off the “mixed zone” area which athletes pass through after their events, provides a station…
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By Mark Sikstrom
THEY BLAME GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK for the blow to the bottom line and social media for their shrinking audience, but mainstream news organizations may fail for another reason. Most consumers no longer believe they tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Newspaper and TV outlets have largely ignored the erosion of trust in their brands while focussing on their revenue crisis.
While understandable, it reminds me of the early 2000s when my peers were warning that online news would undermine the broadcast news model. We were met with…
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TORONTO — Canadian Broadcast Sales (CBS) today announced the launch of AudioVelocity, a new digital audio platform it says is designed to deliver advanced advertising solutions and real-time measurement to radio and podcast advertisers.
Providing enhanced targeting capabilities, the AudioVelocity platform allows advertisers to deliver messages through streamed and on-demand content via connected devices across CBS’s portfolio of leading Canadian broadcasters and podcasters, including confirmed partners Rogers Sports and Media, Corus Entertainment, Pattison Media, Cogeco Media, CBC, Vista Radio, Radioplayer Canada, Golden West Broadcasting, Blackburn Radio, and MBS Radio.
“Radio already delivers massive reach, excellent cost efficiency, and demonstrated impact for…
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