TORONTO — Canada’s major broadcasters are coming together in a show of support for frontline workers fighting the battle against Covid-19 across Canada, with the announcement Monday of the all-Canadian, star-studded special Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble which will air in English and French on Sunday, April 26 at 7 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. NT across all markets.
In support of Food Banks Canada’s $150-million campaign to provide immediate support to food banks during Covid-19, the Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble one-hour special will air on CBC, Citytv, CTV, Global and V, as well as select specialty networks, radio stations and streaming platforms…
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TORONTO – Corus Entertainment and Rogers Media are joining Bell Media to broadcast the worldwide TV and streaming special One World: Together At Home, in support of the fight against Covid-19.
Airing Saturday, April 18 at 8 p.m. ET, the special will be available on Bell Media channels CTV, CTV2, TSN, CP24, MUCH, MTV, and in French on VRAK; on Corus channels Global, National Geographic, and ABC Spark; and on Rogers Media’s Citytv.
UPDATE: CBC, TLN Media’s Univision and Sirius XM Radio have also announced they will be broadcasting the event, too.
The special will also be streamed live on the…
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TORONTO – Knowing creators, whose jobs have all but stopped during the coronavirus pandemic, need immediate support the CBC today launched the Creative Relief Fund.
The unprecedented new fund will provide $2 million in development and production funding “for a diverse range of innovative, original Canadian storytelling, including scripted comedies and dramas, unscripted entertainment, kids and young adult programming, podcasts, play adaptations and short documentaries,” the public broadcaster announced today.
Applications will be accepted here until April 24th.
“In this time of challenge and change, we are working as quickly as we can to provide much-needed support to Canadian creators with…
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GATINEAU – Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the CRTC today officially postponed the upcoming public hearing into the renewal of the CBC/Radio-Canada broadcasting licences.
The hearing was supposed to begin May 25th and a new date will be set at a later date, said the Commission.
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TORONTO — A new webcast series exploring the critical role of journalism in the Covid-19 crisis is being launched by the Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) and will be hosted by award-winning broadcaster Anna Maria Tremonti (pictured), host of the CBC podcast More.
The first webcast in the series is Recognizing Disinformation Amidst Covid-19, Thursday, April 9 at 1 p.m. ET, and featuring Jane Lytvynenko, senior reporter with BuzzFeed News. In conversation with Tremonti, Lytvynenko (who regularly tracks online lies and misinformation) will explore the online rumours, fake texts and propaganda fuelling panic and anxiety during the coronavirus pandemic as…
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TORONTO — With the news media suffering financially due to Covid-19, almost two-thirds (62%) of Canadians say the federal government should treat the current media crisis as an emergency, according to a new survey conducted by Nanos Research on behalf of the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
According to the survey results, released Monday morning, 26% of Canadians agree and 36% somewhat agree that because of the Covid-19 outbreak the federal government should treat widespread media bankruptcies and layoffs as an emergency because professional journalism is essential to keeping Canadians safe.
In addition, nearly three-quarters (74%) of Canadians say content displayed…
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TORONTO — CBC and the Hot Docs documentary festival are partnering to bring a multiplatform festival-at-home experience to Canadians, providing access to 2020 Hot Docs Festival premieres on Thursday nights starting April 16.
Following the postponement of the 2020 Hot Docs Festival due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a selection of exclusive first-run feature documentaries that would have debuted at the festival will now premiere on CBC, Documentary Channel, and for free on streamer CBC Gem.
CBC and Hot Docs have also partnered to expand the at-home audience experience with interactive, livestreamed Q&As with filmmakers and other original digital content at…
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TORONTO – With Canadian families at home for the foreseeable future thanks to the Covid-19 crisis, CBC continues to release new original content across all platforms including CBC Kids, the free CBC Gem streaming service, and CBC Podcasts.
This week, CBC Kids introduced the daily program CBC Kids Hang Time With Tony and Janaye, available live on the CBC Kids’ Facebook page at 3 p.m. ET, featuring music, stories, games and more. Also, beginning April 5, CBC Kids programming will be extended by 90 minutes on Sunday mornings, with content for preschoolers aged two to six now airing on CBC…
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TORONTO – Canadian Women & Sport announced today a collaboration with She’s4Sports on a new digital series, She Leads By Sport.
The interview series from Ainka Jess, founder of She’s4Sports, highlights women leaders from different corners of the sports world. The first episode debuted today featuring an in-depth discussion with Olympic wrestler and gold medal winner Erica Wiebe. Additional episodes will be shared across Canadian Women & Sport and She’s4Sports’ platforms in the coming weeks.
Besides Wiebe, the Canadian women who are featured in She Leads By Sport include:
Yvette Raposo – Canada’s first female boxing ring announcer
Perdita Felicien…
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By Greg O’Brien
THERE ARE NO MODERN parallels for the Covid-19 crisis which is exacting a toll on every man, woman and child in the world. There is nothing to which we can compare it.
You can find tallies of confirmed cases, and worse, and what each Canadian province and city are doing about it on many platforms, because the main constant in all of this for Canadians has been journalism. Of course, video can be seen everywhere, but it’s the TV broadcasters who are filming everything and carrying the heaviest load in getting the word out.
TV channels from CBC to…
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