MONTREAL and TORONTO — Ahead of the Canada Media Fund (CMF) presenting its annual trends report at Prime Time this Wednesday, the funding organization is offering a sneak peek of the report, titled Pause and Rethink, which details how the pandemic has impacted media consumption as well as the content distribution, production and creation ecosystems in Canada.
Divided into four thematic sections, the report incorporates statistics related to the development of the Canadian screen industry as well as an analysis of the trends affecting the sector.
“What are the major transformations that we’ve observed, and that have been accelerated by the…
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By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU – a 14-day hearing is rather long in normal circumstances but in a virtual context it is a Guinness-like feat and it did go smoothly. Kudos to the CRTC hearings team, and everyone’s local internet connections.
Thursday morning was Phase IV, the final reply portion of the CRTC hearing into the renewal of the CBC’s broadcasting licences. This is where the CBC had its opportunity to reply to the concerns raised by the 70 intervenors who appeared in front of the Commission in the last two weeks.
It’s usually used to celebrate successes with a little dash of…
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TORONTO – The Black Academy and Insight Productions announced today a partnership to produce a live award show honouring established and emerging Black talent.
The telecast will feature award presentations, performances, and tributes from across Canada, and in addition, The Black Academy and Insight announced a search for a Black showrunner and production crew, as well as a skills development program.
Interested applicants can submit their résumés to BlackAwardShowResumes@insighttv.com
“The live telecast is one of several initiatives created by The Black Academy to break down barriers of discrimination and combat systemic racism,” reads the release,
The award show stems from co-founders Shamier…
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SSi Micro says northern broadband won’t grow if everything is given to incumbents
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – Last week, outgoing Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said a chunk of the United States’ historic C-band spectrum proceeds should go toward a fund intended to help bring basic telecommunications services to all Americans.
North of the border, NDP Member of Parliament Brian Masse (and many others) has long been calling for spectrum proceeds to fund rural broadband investments — even creating a proposal to connect the entirety of the country to universal objective speeds (50 Mbps download/10 Mbps upload) much sooner than…
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TORONTO — The Canada Media Fund (CMF) today unveiled a new visual identity which it says signals significant changes underway as the funding organization looks to inspire, support and embrace change and inclusion.
The CMF released a video to showcase its new logo — referred to as “the spark” — which the organization says symbolizes its mission to foster, promote and finance Canadian content that reflects creators’ innovation and talent.
“Images within the spark showcase ever-changing visuals — a scene from a hit program, the image of a revered Indigenous artist, a much-loved animated character, a popular video game, each…
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TORONTO — More than 50 years after a National Film Board (NFB) film crew first visited Fogo Island for its Challenge for Change project, the NFB today announced a new interactive experience marking the next chapter in the island’s story, Far Away From Far Away, will be available on mobile starting February 8.
Written by Michael Crummey and led by creative directors Bruce Alcock and Jeremy Mendes, Far Away From Far Away is inspired by visionary Zita Cobb’s childhood growing up with her father in the remote and resilient community of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, during the 1960s and…
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LONGUEUIL, Que. —Third party internet access provider EBOX (we told you last year about its expansion into northwestern Quebec using Cablevision’s infrastructure) today announced it has launched a petition aimed at federal members of parliament, asking them to support the implementation of the CRTC’s August 2019 ruling on the final rates for wholesale high-speed access services.
“EBOX wishes to start the year with the resolution to put an end to the regulatory holiday of major providers in the telecommunications industry. We advocate for fair and reasonable telecommunications prices and wish to ask Honorable François-Philippe Champagne, the new minister…
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Department has a contract out for hyper-precision measurements
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – The Ministry of Innovation, Science and Industry has a contract for more detailed broadband mapping methods that, if successful, may inform future program decisions that will go beyond the existing — yet still new — 250-metre increments that underpins the Universal Broadband Fund (UBF).
That’s according to an ISED spokesperson in response to questions from Cartt.ca about what a new contract on the government’s buy-and-sell website Friday will do for the future of accurate broadband mapping. The ministry has already pre-selected a Toronto artificial intelligence company for the…
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By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU – In the world of broadcast regulation, it’s thought to be good form to requote what the CRTC chair has said in the hope it will earn you a favourable decision. Ian Scott’s quote in our headline seems to be central to the proceeding into the renewal of the CBC’s broadcasting licences, which completed day 11 on Monday.
CBC leadership have repeated our headline (which was uttered on day one), most intervenors have said it, and today it was even re-cast in the following way, when the Directors Guild of Canada president Warren Sonoda said: “What get…
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TORONTO – The Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University announced last week the launch of a new independent, three-year, research study on Canadian sports fan, in partnership with Sportsnet and in collaboration with the Future of Sport Lab (FSL).
Said to be the first-of-its-kind academic study, the “Canadian Sport Fan Index will provide key insights on the attitudes, behaviors and trends of sport fans across Canada,” said the press release. “The research will focus on the post-Covid era examining how fans are engaging with professional sports teams and leagues as they deal with limited access to live events,…
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