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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COMMUNITY MEDIA’S LOW-COST participatory model has the potential to address both the crisis in local news and information, and the proliferation of fake news. Yet this sector has been relegated to a sidebar in discussions to reform Canada’s broadcasting system.
When Paul Manly of the Green Party and others recently put forward an amendment to clarify that community media Is not-for-profit, it was rejected by the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.
The concern raised was that giving recognition to “not-for-profit” community broadcasting might somehow imperil giant for-profit cable and satellite corporations.
The 1991 Broadcast Act recognizes three distinct elements: private, public…
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By Steve Faguy
RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP – Canada’s public broadcaster has cut ties with its last privately-owned affiliate TV station.
CKRT-DT, based in Rivière-du-Loup, Que., learned last year that Radio-Canada was not renewing its affiliation agreement past Aug. 31, 2021. Owner Télé Inter-Rives, which also owns affiliate stations for both TVA and Noovo in eastern Quebec, says it has no other source of programming for the station and will therefore shut it down — along with its six rebroadcasting transmitters — and return its licence to the CRTC.
“Over the last year, we have been able to discuss with Radio-Canada about this unilateral decision,”…
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MONTREAL — Quebec’s public educational broadcaster, Télé-Québec, announced today it is entrusting its advertising representation outside the province to CBC & Radio-Canada Media Solutions and its sales team, effective in June.
“Like all Canadian broadcasters, Télé-Québec is operating in a television landscape that is constantly shifting locally, nationally and internationally. Not only is competition between media intense and pervasive, but the rapid technological progress of local and foreign broadcasting platforms is forcing broadcasters to maximize their business strategies to protect their independent revenues,” reads Télé-Québec’s English press release.
“Consequently, Télé-Québec wanted to join a media group with complementary content and similar…
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By Denis Carmel
OTTAWA – After a week of complaints that Bill C-10, the bill to update the Broadcasting Act, would instead cause all Canadians’ YouTube videos and Instagram posts and so on to fall under CRTC jurisdiction, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said late Monday a new amendment is coming to try and fix the fuss.
On April 23, when Julie Dabrusin, Parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, proposed to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage that Section 4.1 of Bill C-10 should be removed because it “has created some confusion for people on whether or not social media…
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