TORONTO – Steaming device maker Roku announced Thursday the launch of CBC TV for all Canadian Roku users.
CBC now offers users in Canada the choice of 14 live regional television channels to watch for free, meaning Canadians will also have access to CBC local news from across the country.
Available regional CBC TV channels include Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Yellowknife, Regina, Winnipeg, Windsor, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Fredericton, Charlottetown, Halifax, and St. John’s.
“Roku represents an important and deeply engaged digital audience in Canada and CBC is excited to partner in order to continue to serve Canadians on their terms,” said Richard Kanee,…
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By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU – Back in August 2020, the CRTC found both Telus and Iristel in violation of the Telecom Act and after Iristel issued a Review and Vary (R&V) application, Telus filed one of its own, in November.
While Iristel had been determined guilty of traffic stimulation with area code 867 calls, Telus was accused of taking matters in its own hands and ending the practice by not connecting what it identified as dubious calls.
Iristel retorted on December 14, arguing that Telus was, in fact, violating the Telecommunications Act and restated the case of a lady, living…
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Traditional TV cord-cutting has accelerated through the pandemic
By Greg O’Brien
TORONTO – It will surprise no one the 18-35 year-old age group loves to stream their content. Watching via Netflix or YouTube or Prime or Disney+ or Club Illico or Crave or CBC Gem or DAZN or Sportsnet Now or TSN Direct or Tou.tv or CBS All Access or Britbox or RDS Direct or AppleTV+ is old hat to them.
However, according to a Charlton Research online presentation to CTAM Canada members last week, what’s not old hat is trying to manage the massive and growing list of streamers (Heck, two…
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THERE IS NOBODY I’ve talked to recently who isn’t looking forward to a little break this holiday season.
We’ve all been made exhausted by 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic which has dominated everything.
That said, the cable, radio, television and telecom industries should feel nothing but enormous pride in the hard work all of you have done this year for the millions of Canadians who need their connectivity, their news, their favourite shows, movies, music and radio personalities, to get through so many fraught days.
The truly brilliant stories of companies and their employees going above and beyond to keep the broadband…
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COLLINGWOOD, Ont. — Production company S-Media today announced a new partnership with CBC Sports that will see the latest season of Ski Television (SkiTV) launch on the free CBC Gem streaming service on January 22.
Episodes of SkiTV (12 episodes x 24 minutes) will be available weekly on CBC Gem in both English and Mandarin. The ski tourism show provides visually stunning ski programming and showcases ski and snowboard destinations around the world, including in Canada, the United States, South America, Asia and Europe. Designed to inspire riders at all levels, the series takes viewers through the full resort experience,…
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TORONTO — A long-planned tribute to a CBC Radio legend, Margaret Lyons, who died in October 2019, will happen virtually on Thursday, January 28, the North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) announced today.
A fierce advocate of public broadcasting, Lyons was a producer, program director and the first female vice-president of CBC Radio. She was instrumental in the CBC’s so-called “Radio Revolution” in the late 1960s until her retirement in 1991, says NABA director general Michael McEwen in an email sent to Cartt.ca.
Originally, NABA had planned to put on a tribute event at the Glenn Gould Studio in the Canadian Broadcasting…
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OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada issued a press release today in an attempt to correct a story published Friday on the Canadaland website which claimed CBC’s president, Catherine Tait, lives in Brooklyn.
The story has been picked up by other media, including The National Post and Le Devoir, and has circulated on other websites such as The Post Millennial and others.
“Canadaland claims its assertion is ‘based on information from sources’. If so, those ‘sources’ did not read the Broadcasting Act, which states: ‘Sec 38 (1) A person is not eligible to be appointed or to continue as a director if the…
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TORONTO – CBC and Viacom-owned streamer BET+ announced this week they are partnering on an original series with the working title of The Porter (8×60) from Inferno Pictures and Sienna Films.
Set in the 1920s The Porter “follows the journeys of four ambitious souls who hustle, dream, cross borders and confront barriers in the fight for liberation – on and off the railways that crossed North America,” says the press release.
Created by Arnold Pinnock and Bruce Ramsay, with Annmarie Morais, Marsha Greene, and Aubrey Nealon, Morais and Greene (left and right, above) are writers/showrunners on the eight-part series, with Charles…
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TORONTO — A group of more than 500 current and former employees of CBC/Radio-Canada who oppose the public broadcaster’s Tandem sponsored-content initiative today launched a social media campaign and website where they’ve published an open letter to Canadians to amplify their efforts to stop paid content on the CBC.
In the letter on the website (www.stoppaidcontentoncbc.ca), the group of mostly journalists asks for the Canadian public’s support in demanding CBC put an end to Tandem, the broadcaster’s new marketing division which was launched in September.
The open letter is signed by current CBC journalists, including Carol Off, Michael…
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VANCOUVER — The Webster Awards recognizing excellence in radio, television, print and online journalism in B.C. were presented Tuesday evening during an online broadcast.
The awards are presented by The Jack Webster Foundation, established in 1986 upon the retirement of its namesake, who was once Western Canada’s best-known and most influential journalist.
This year, the award for best breaking news in the radio category went to the Global News team at 980 CKNW, Gord Macdonald, Janet Brown, Terry Schintz, John Copsey, Erin Ubels, Srushti Gangdev, Robyn Crawford and Emily Lazatin, for Northern B.C. Murders.
The best breaking news award in the TV…
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