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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By Etan Vlessing
OTTAWA – As Canada hopes to modernize its broadcasting laws via Bill C-10, CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Catherine Tait (right) and CMPA president and CEO Reynolds Mastin (left) on Tuesday debated how best to steer U.S. streaming dollars to Canadian content production without forcing local indie producers to give up their intellectual property rights – and Canada its cultural sovereignty.
And the solution both industry execs agreed on after touching on Hollywood scenarios involving France, Lionsgate founder Frank Giustra and I May Destroy You creator Michaela Coel standing up to Netflix was for the Canadian TV industry…
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But captures much of it anyway, and that’s a big problem
By Len St-Aubin
BILL C-10’s GOAL IS TO engage online streamers with Canadian creators in the production of Canadian stories for Canadian and global audiences. To do that, Bill C-10 proposes to modernize the Broadcasting Act by sweeping-in online (internet) audio and video.
The rationale is the impact of growing competition from unregulated internet audio and video on the regulated ‘broadcasting system’, as outlined in the report of the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Policy Review (BTLR) Panel.
The first article in this series showed how Bill C-10 is problematic for Canadian broadcasting,…
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WINNIPEG — On Screen Manitoba announced today the government of Manitoba is allowing the province’s media production industry to resume full operation with physical distancing and other Covid-19 safety measures in place, effective midnight on February 12.
Previously, the provincial government’s most recent public health orders had allowed companies producing television shows or movies to operate only if filming had started before November 12, 2020.
“On Screen Manitoba appreciates the Government of Manitoba’s confidence in our industry. From June through December 2020, the Manitoba media production industry worked safely and responsibly following strict Covid-19 protocols. Our industry looks forward to once…
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By Len St-Aubin
DEBATE ABOUT BILL C-10 thus far has focused on Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s goal to make big foreign online audio and video streamers, like Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, YouTube and Spotify, contribute to the creation of Canadian content.
But Bill C-10’s scope is vast. It will impact broadcasting and the internet in Canada, and all Canadians
It’s a valid public policy goal to expect big foreign streamers which have significant market share and revenues in Canada to engage with Canadian creators in the production of Canadian stories for Canadian and global audiences. It’s a valid question whether amending the…
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