TORONTO — Production company Peacock Alley Entertainment today announced several creative leadership appointments within the company.
This follows last week’s announcement that producer Mary Anne Waterhouse has been hired as Peacock Alley’s new executive vice-president of content production.
The appointments announced today include Diana Foley (above, left) taking on the role of director of nonfiction development and production, and Eli Campbell (right) being hired as director of scripted development. In addition, Michael Brum is joining Peacock Alley as director of post production.
In their newly created roles, Foley and Campbell will oversee content development, from concept to series, and all aspects…
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OTTAWA — Seven in 10 Canadians listen to commercial radio on at least a weekly basis, with 39% saying they listen daily, according to a new report prepared by Ipsos Public Affairs on behalf of the CRTC.
In comparison, 39% of Canadians surveyed for the report said they listen to streaming music services on a weekly basis, while 32% said they listen weekly to CBC/Radio-Canada. The next two most-popular audio formats were podcasts (22% said they listened on a weekly basis) and satellite radio (17%).
According to the report, a car radio is by far the most commonly used device to…
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OTTAWA — Gusto Worldwide Media announced today it has hired Carrie Gillis (above) as its new vice-president and general manager.
She will start in the newly created role on March 1, and will be responsible for overseeing operations, sales and marketing at Gusto TV’s Ottawa-based studio and master control facility.
“With years of experience in the media and entertainment industry, Gillis brings leadership and expertise in multimedia content creation, client and agency partnerships, sales, marketing, and operations,” reads the press release announcing her appointment.
Gillis began her career in TV content distribution for CBC International Sales and Télé Images in Paris. After…
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MONTREAL — Radio-Canada’s director of digital operations and community relations, Pierre Champoux (above), has been appointed as ombudsman for CBC/Radio-Canada’s French services. He replaces Guy Gendron.
Champoux has 35 years of experience with media organizations, such as Groupe TVA and CBC/Radio-Canada, in key roles including lineup editor, editor-in-chief and news director. He will begin his five-year term on July 1, 2021.
The public broadcaster has two ombudsmen: one for CBC and one for Radio-Canada. They are responsible for investigating complaints regarding compliance with CBC/Radio-Canada’s Journalistic Standards and Practices. They work independent of program staff and management, reporting directly to CBC/Radio-Canada’s…
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By Denis Carmel
OTTAWA – In the disagreement between the Fédération culturelle canadienne-française (FCCF) et la Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne (FCFA) and the CBC over the alleged lack of transparency of the CBC in filing its Mission Metrics survey, the CBC responded on February 17 and the FCCF/FCFA the following day.
“The survey on perception filed on January 18, 2020, is a fulsome and adequate response to the undertaking we agreed to at the (CRTC) hearing,” wrote Claude Galipeau, executive vice-president, corporate development of the CBC in French.
He goes on to explain that the polling firm Léger gathers…
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Third in a three-part series
By Len St-Aubin
FOR DECADES, CANADIAN broadcasting policy, grounded in the limitations of over-the-air radio and TV, has restricted consumer choice in the name of Canadian culture.
Quietly, Canadians have resisted: with set-top “rabbit ears”, roof-top antennas, pre-regulation cable-TV, and satellite dishes big and small, we asserted our freedom of choice, pulling in foreign signals. We took to online streaming like fish to water.
If passed, Bill C-10 would apply those increasingly out of touch (OOT) policies to online streaming. Virtual private networks (VPNs) are about to flourish.
It’s not that Canadians don’t like Canadian content. Our maple-leaf hearts…
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OTTAWA and VICTORIAVILLE, Que. — As Bill C-10 wends its way through the legislative process, CACTUS (the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations), the Fédération des télévisions communautaires autonomes du Québec and the Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) issued a joint statement today asking for greater recognition of community media as a vital broadcasting sector within the context of the federal government’s proposed overhaul of the Broadcasting Act.
“Community media is the third pillar of Canadian broadcasting, alongside private and public broadcasting, yet there is no description of its role in the new Act that’s been tabled,”…
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TORONTO — Throughout the month of February, SiriusXM Canada is celebrating Black History Month with a wide variety of programming across its channels, with content ranging from music and talk to sports and comedy, the company announced today.
On the music side, the SiriusXM Takeover Series will be featured on the service’s The Verge, North Americana, Poplandia, CBC Country and Influence Franco channels. Music artists such as Kardinal Offishall, JoJo Mason, Densil McFarlane, The Black Pumas (above) and Dramatik will curate playlists featuring bands that have inspired them, in addition to sharing new and emerging Black artists with SiriusXM Canada…
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By Denis Carmel
OTTAWA – During last month’s CRTC hearing on the renewal of the CBC’s broadcasting licences, Commission chairman Ian Scott and commissioner Claire Anderson asked numerous times for the CBC to file the “mission metrics” public opinion survey which the corporation uses to measure the fulfilment of its mandate.
“In terms of perception about the corporation’s programming, my understanding is that the corporation has been conducting the mission metrics public opinion survey for well over a decade, and it was designed to measure whether Canadians believe that CBC/SRC is fulfilling its mandate under the Broadcasting Act,” the Chairman asked…
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MONTREAL – CBC and Radio-Canada Media Solutions announced Thursday the promotion of Patricia Châteauneuf (above) to the role of executive director, multi-platform media sales, Montreal and Eastern Canada and the hiring of Émilie L. Laguerre as the director of business-to-business marketing and communications.
Châteauneuf was most recently CBC/Radio-Canada’s director, national multi-platform sales and client innovation, a position she held for more than seven years. “With experience in building strategic alliances which have led to many successful consortiums with other media groups, Patricia was a natural choice to fill the role of the executive director following the retirement of industry veteran…
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