CBC on Wednesday announced its new winter 2026 podcast slate, featuring new in-depth investigations in its original series Someone Knows Something, Understood and Uncover as well as a new weekly debrief on the biggest political stories unfolding in Washington, D.C.
Launching Jan. 14, Two Blocks from the White House will feature veteran CBC reporters Paul Hunter and Katie Simpson every Wednesday sitting down with their colleagues at CBC News’ Washington bureau to discuss the big stories in the U.S. capital and what they mean for Canada. CBC describes the podcast as “Unscripted, smart analysis from reporters with…
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Hamilton’s CHCH-TV announced Tuesday its all-Canadian live New Year’s Eve special, The Countdown to 2026, co-produced with Victoria, B.C.’s CHEK, drew a record audience of more than 1.27 million viewers across Canada.
The fourth edition of The Countdown drew the annual broadcast’s biggest audience yet, with viewers tuning in on conventional TV via CHCH-TV and CHEK, and streaming via Parrot TV and YouTube, said a CHCH press release.
The total number of more than 1.27 million viewers is a combined total of all TV and…
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TVO Media Education Group (TVO) on Tuesday announced the appointment of Pary Bell as its new CEO, effective Jan. 12.
Bell succeeds Jeffrey Orridge, who left Ontario’s public broadcaster in August after serving as CEO since November 2020. TVO’s chief operating officer, Jennifer Hinshelwood, had been serving as acting CEO following Orridge’s departure.
Incoming CEO Bell was most recently CEO of The Podcast Exchange (TPX), which in July 2025 filed a notice of intention under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and was subsequently…
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Earlier this month, the Governor in Council approved the extension of CBC’s agreement to lease space in its headquarters at 250 Front St. W. in Toronto to The Walt Disney Company (Canada) Ltd. by an additional 11 years and two months.
The value of the agreement is reportedly in excess of $4 million. The extended lease is for approximately 50,400 square feet of space, with an additional 39,833 square feet to be leased for 10 years under the amended agreement. Disney also has the option to lease up to an additional 50 per cent in square…
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Two legacy media brands in Hamilton, Ont., CHCH-TV and 1150 CKOC, announced Monday a partnership that will see CHCH Evening News at 6PM carried live on 1150 CKOC each weekday, starting Dec. 8.
Bringing local news to radio listeners in the Hamilton, Halton, Brantford and Niagara regions, the news program will be aired in its entirety for 1150 CKOC’s radio audience, in simulcast with the CHCH-TV live TV broadcast originating from its studios in Hamilton at 6 p.m. daily.
“We’re thrilled to distribute our news to an even wider audience in our community,” said Greg O’Brien, news…
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Creative group highlights Guilbeault’s impact on culture
By Ahmad Hathout
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault announced Thursday night that he resigned from cabinet over his government’s deal with Alberta to build a pipeline project that he says will fall short of climate change goals and that disturb initiatives he put forward as environment and climate change minister.
The memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the federal government and Alberta, announced earlier that day, stipulates that the province will build one or more private sector-constructed and financed pipelines “with at least one million barrels a day of low emission Alberta bitumen with a route that…
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By Howard Law, author of MediaPolicy.ca and Canada vs. California: How Ottawa took on Netflix and the streaming giants (Lorimer, 2024)
In October 2022, Netflix appeared at the Senate committee reviewing the proposed Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, when the Conservative senator Fabian Manning pitched a softball question: What was the Hollywood giant’s “main priority” in amending a bill it didn’t welcome?
The Canadian spokesperson for the streamer was succinct in his answer: “If I had to choose just one, it would be the issue of copyright ownership.”
Last week, Netflix got what it wanted.
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Vancouver-based production companies Omnifilm Entertainment and Reality Distortion Field this week announced they have formalized their agreement to jointly develop and produce original scripted television projects for global markets.
“Across their shared slate, Reality Distortion Field (RDF) will provide creative oversight while Omnifilm will provide physical production, post-production, production administration and financing, resulting in a fully integrated content pipeline,” an RDF press release says.
RDF is the production company behind Netflix’s 2020-2022 series Warrior Nun as well as Fakes (Netflix, CBC Gem), the latter being a coproduction with Omnifilm. Omnifilm has previously produced content for Netflix, Disney+, Discovery, BBC,…
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Global media intelligence provider TVEyes last week announced the launch of TVEyes Canada Inc., expanding its presence in North America with comprehensive broadcast and podcast monitoring across major audio and video media formats in Canada.
Based in Toronto, TVEyes Canada will deliver real-time media intelligence in both English and French, spanning all 10 provinces and three territories, according to a TVEyes press release.
“The new entity offers licensed and compliant access to Canada’s leading media sources, including CBC, CTV, Global, ICI Radio-Canada Télé, and additional major outlets, alongside more than 2,000 podcast sources…
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Quebecor’s TVA Group announced Wednesday it is eliminating 87 positions in its broadcasting segment as its financial situation continues to deteriorate.
The cuts affect primarily unionized jobs and include permanent and temporary positions in Montreal and at local stations in Trois-Rivières, Sherbrooke, Saguenay and Rimouski, TVA Group said in a press release.
Despite its restructuring and workforce rationalization strategies in recent years, TVA Group has posted cumulative net losses of more than $93 million since January 2022, including a $17 million loss for the first nine months of 2025, due primarily to a…
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