TORONTO – CBC/Radio-Canada today announced Acast will be its first official podcast partner for international sales.
Stockholm-based Acast will help grow CBC/Radio-Canada’s podcast slate globally by selling advertising and sponsorships to clients outside of Canada, including in the U.S. and Europe, says the press release. Acast has sales teams spead across 10 countries.
CBC/Radio-Canada’s portfolio of podcasts includes L'ombre du doute, Personal Best, Histoires d'enquête, Love Me, Ça s'explique, Transmission, Par hasard la science, Alone: A Love Story, Uncover, Someone Knows Something and Hunting Warhead, which is an international co-production with Norway’s Verdens Gang (VG) newspaper, including input from Australia’s…
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OTTAWA – Amid new portfolio names and no major change to Navdeep Bains’ duties, one big surprise in the unveiling of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new post-election cabinet on Wednesday was the appointment of well-known Quebec environmentalist, anti-pipeline activist and month-old Member of Parliament Steven Guilbeault (right), as – the new minister of Canadian Heritage.
However, OUTtv CEO Brad Danks told Cartt.ca he is “cautiously optimistic” that Guilbeault’s background as a human-rights activist and reputation of being forward-thinking will help the government undertake a “complete overhaul of the broadcasting system” following the release of recommendations early next year by…
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YELLOWKNIFE – After two days of outcry in the Far North, the CBC today said it wouldn’t merge English-language morning radio newscasts in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
On Monday, the CBC announced local newscasts were to be merged into a single, pan-territorial broadcast in January 2020. Local politicians, CBC employees and many other northerners didn’t hold back in their criticism of the plan.
According to a press release from the Canadian Association of Journalists, the move showed the CBC was ignoring its commitments to upholding the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action…
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TORONTO — CBC announced Tuesday the worldwide release of the new Hunting Warhead true crime podcast series, an international co-production between CBC Podcasts and Norway’s Verdens Gang (VG) newspaper.
Consisting of six 45-minute episodes, the series amplifies outstanding original journalism by VG, layered with rich audio storytelling and in-depth interviews from CBC Podcasts, plus archival interviews and input from Australia’s ABC Audio Studios, CBC said in a news release.
Hunting Warhead follows the determined journalists, white-hat hackers and police on a mission across borders to uncover the man behind username Warhead who ran Child’s Play, a site on the dark…
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OTTAWA — It was 80 years ago today that CBC Radio listeners first heard the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) time signal, which thereafter becoming a daily feature of CBC’s afternoon radio broadcast.
On November 5, 1939, the NRC time signal was heard on air across the CBC network at exactly 13:00. Today, listeners can continue to hear what the NRC calls “the longest-running but shortest-duration broadcast program” on CBC’s Radio One network every afternoon at 1 p.m. ET.
In a news release on Tuesday, the NRC provided a brief history of timekeeping in Canada over the past 96…
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MONTREAL — CBC/Radio-Canada announced Wednesday that Donald Lizotte will be taking over the role of general manager and chief revenue officer of CBC & Radio-Canada Media Solutions, after last week’s announcement that Jean Mongeau is leaving the position, effective February 24, 2020.
In his new role, Lizotte will oversee all teams associated with CBC/Radio-Canada’s self-generated revenue, including the advertising, distribution and content-licensing streams, CBC/Radio-Canada said in a news release.
Lizotte comes to CBC/Radio-Canada with more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications, retail, food and media sectors, including 14 years as an executive with Quebecor. Previously, Lizotte was…
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MONTREAL — Telefilm Canada is adding two new members to its executive leadership team, with the announcement that René Bourdages has been named senior director of cultural portfolio management, and Marie-Claude Lavigne has been named director of government and public affairs.
Bourdages (pictured on left) will join Telefilm Canada on December 2 and will be based in Montreal and Toronto. Lavigne (pictured on right) will join the organization on November 12 and will be based in Montreal and Ottawa.
Prior to joining Telefilm Canada, Bourdages served as the National Film Board’s director general of creation and innovation since 2016. In the…
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Former commissioner Suzanne Lamarre also elected to board
OTTAWA — The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is enhancing the regulatory expertise of its board with the recent election of four new directors, including former CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein and former CRTC commissioner Suzanne Lamarre.
PIAC said in a news release the four new directors are all experts in either telecommunications, broadcasting or class actions, which will help to boost its consumer advocacy work when appearing before the CRTC to argue for better services and consumer protection for customers of Internet, wireless, telephone and broadcasting services.
“PIAC’s extensive work on behalf…
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VANCOUVER – Rogers Media’s podcaster Pacific Content announced today it has hired Jonas Woost as its director of business development.
Woost (right) will look to grow Pacific Content's roster of clients and podcasts, which already include Facebook, Dell Technologies, Red Hat, Mozilla, Charles Schwab, Audible, McAfee, and the New York Times T Brand Studio. Pacific Content produces original podcasts for and with brands.
Woost joins Pacific Content from Telus, where he was the executive producer of the Storyhive project. Prior to that, he was executive producer at CBC Music, the public broadcaster's digital music service. He…
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TORONTO – Jean Mongeau, general manager and chief revenue officer of CBC and Radio-Canada Media Solutions will be moving on to pursue new opportunities, the broadcaster announced today after almost 40 years in the industry, including over 25 with CBC/Radio-Canada
His official departure date is February 24, 2020, says the national broadcaster’s press release.
After starting out with CBC/Radio-Canada from 1980 to 1995 as a member of the sales and marketing team, he worked for a variety of companies (such as Télé-Quebec and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra) before returning to the public broadcaster in 2009 as general manager, sales and…
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