TORONTO – Former CHUM Ltd Vice Chair and COO Fred Sherratt will be honoured at the Ontario Association of Broadcasters’ Community Service Awards Luncheon 2008 on October 7 at 11:30 at the Boulevard Club in Toronto.
The event will also feature a keynote by CRTC Vice-Chair, Broadcasting Michel Arpin.
The OAB Community Service Award for Radio – Small Market will be presented to CKTB/HTZ-FM/ EZROCK Astral Media Radio Niagara. General manger Madelyn Hamilton will accept the award.
An honourable mention goes to The Rock, Durham Radio Oshawa. Craig Robertson, morning show host; Steve Kassay, general manager; and Adrianne Vogel,…
Continue Reading
THIS YEAR’S CANADIAN Association of Broadcasters convention may be themed "The World View", but it will be a policy release that is decidedly Canadian in flavour that will likely dominate discussion at this year’s gathering in Ottawa from November 2 to 4.
The two keynote speakers who will certainly expound on the show’s theme and are bound to be rather interesting this year are author Dr. Daniel Franklin, executive editor of The Economist and Jeremy Gutsche, founder of Trendhunter.com.
Monday’s after-lunch plenary will also take a global look around – this time at the regulatory field – as the…
Continue Reading
QUEBEC CITY – The CRTC has issued a call for commercial radio applications for Quebec City. The call was issued after the commission received one such application.
The deadline for application is December 2, 2008. Applications must also include all technical information.
The CRTC notes that it may not license any new radio stations due to “weak growth in radio advertising in Quebec City from 2003 to 2007.” The average annual compound radio advertising revenue growth for the city was just 1.8% compared with 3.5% for the province of Quebec and 5.8% for Canada.
The application must therefore, states…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – With many Canadians concerned about the economy, environment, and our troops overseas, you’d think culture would not be on the radar in the federal election, but the parties have made promises that could affect broadcasting.
The Conservatives have vowed to change the make-up of the CRTC commissioners to better reflect the regions and francophones. Leader Stephen Harper said the chair position would alternate between English speakers and French speakers, the vice-chair positions (in broadcasting and telecom) would be split with one anglophone and one francophone, at least one-quarter of the commissioners would be French-speaking and would be…
Continue Reading
MONT TREMBLANT – Seven CRTC commissioners made the trip to Mont Tremblant this week to attend the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance annual general meeting and conference.
Besides keynote speaker Michel Arpin, who is vice-chair, broadcasting, and telecom vice-chair Leonard Katz, commissioners Rita Cugini, Timothy Denton, Suzanne Lamarre, Marc Patrone and Louise Poirier were all on hand – as was executive director, broadcasting, Scott Hutton.
“As a matter of fact we have quorum to make decisions,” joked Arpin in his speech to delegates.
He addressed a number of issues but didn’t say too much that was new in his 20-plus…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA/GATINEAU – Tickets for the October 29th Telecom Laureate Awards Gala at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa/Gatineau are now on sale.
The 2008 Telecom laureates who will be honoured are: Jim Balsillie (RIM); Mike Lazaridis (RIM); Carol Stephenson (Stentor, Lucent, Richard Ivey School of Business); David Golden (Telesat Canada); The late David Simmonds and his sons, Robert Simmonds, Gordon Simmonds and Donald Simmonds (Clearnet, Lenbrook Communications).
The 2008 Special Recognition Award winner is the Western government telephone companies and their successor companies for 100 years of service: Manitoba Telephone System (MTS Allstream) – Pierre Blouin, CEO; Alberta…
Continue Reading
MONT TREMBLANT – Attendees were very pleased with the new trade show format at the 2008 Canadian Cable Systems Alliance.
The group tweaked its annual general meeting, renaming it Connect 2008 – The Summit for Independent Communications, rescheduling some of the traditional events and re-formatting the trade show. Feedback was very positive on Monday from some of the 250-plus attendees we talked to here at the Fairmont Hotel.
Here are a few of the things we saw and heard on Sunday and Monday.
************ Rogers Communications is now a member of the CCSA. Both the Alliance and the largest…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein will deliver the keynote address of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters annual convention on Tuesday, November 4 at the Westin Hotel.
The speech (we hope it will be as good as last year’s…) will take place only a few days after the expected release of the Commission’s decision in the Specialty and Pay/BDU/Conventional TV regulatory framework hearing.
To register for the CAB conference or for more on the program, click here.
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Statistics Canada’s release yesterday of radio listenership data that’s a year old is the final one it will compile, the government’s numbers arm said.
This release (some of which we’ve quoted below for old time’s sake…) was based on a survey of Canadians aged 12 and older. The radio project of the Culture Statistics Program was a joint endeavour of the CRTC, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and Statistics Canada. The basic radio listening data are provided by BBM Canada.
The last television viewing data were released on March 31, 2006, for the fall of 2004.
Radio…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed the CRTC on Wednesday during an election stop with a message aimed squarely at Quebecers who haven’t had a look at the existing structure of the CRTC.
The PM said yesterday “(b)ecause CRTC decisions affect our daily lives, it must reflect our linguistic and cultural reality.” So, “a new Conservative Government will ensure that decisions about French-language broadcasting are made by people who understand the French-language and culture."
That’s happening already but anyway, under the plan:
* The chair of the CRTC will alternate between English speakers and French speakers. (This has…
Continue Reading
