TORONTO — The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) announced today R.T. Thorne (pictured) has been appointed as chair of DGC’s newly formed BIPOC Members Committee.
“I am pleased and proud to announce that R.T. Thorne has accepted to chair the DGC’s BIPOC Members Committee. R.T. brings the respect and confidence of countless members of our community to a role that will help shape the future of both our Guild and our industry,” said DGC president Tim Southam, in the news release.
“Today’s announcement is an important step for the DGC in rising to meet renewed calls for fairness and equality…
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VANCOUVER and RIMOUSKI, Que. — Telus announced Tuesday it is expanding its Internet for Good program to support people living with disabilities who receive financial disability assistance from the provincial governments in British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec.
The Internet for Good program (known as the Internet for the Future program in Quebec) currently provides high-speed broadband Internet at home for only $9.95 per month ($10/month in Quebec) to families receiving the Canada Child Benefit from the federal government.
In order to help more Canadians, Telus has expanded the program’s eligibility to also include more than 110,000 British Columbians and…
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TORONTO — A new Canadian-based, direct-to-consumer, live video network launched last week by Onviva Broadcasting Corporation is providing content creators with a new way to deliver and get paid for live broadcasts showcasing their talents and virtual events.
Launched on Canada Day, the Onviva live video network offers a full suite of options for content creators to increase their income potential with live video broadcasts, says the news release.
“Our mission is to democratize the live video industry with our Canadian-based direct to consumer live video network, with no ads and no algorithms to clutter creator broadcasts. We invite content…
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TORONTO — William F. White International (Whites) has expanded its studio capacity with the addition of the Century Studio (pictured) in Mississauga, Ont., its third studio location in the Toronto area, the production equipment supplier announced Tuesday.
Whites purchased the Century Studio facility from Toronto-based High Park Entertainment. Whites’ other studios in Mississauga are its Edwards Blvd. Studio and Cantay Studio (introduced in February 2020). The Century Studio is Whites’ ninth property in Canada.
“There’s no denying it’s been a difficult year, not only within the film industry, but all over the world,” said Garin Josey, executive vice-president and chief operating…
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More delay, indecision, will force a choice upon us
By Brad Danks
IT’S TIME FOR THE GOVERNMENT to take action to re-structure Canada’s broadcasting system. The Yale Report provides a series of strong recommendations – many of which, in my opinion, could be applied by the CRTC without requiring changes to the Broadcasting Act.
There is very little difference between the regulations applied in the current broadcasting system and those needed for the digital platforms. Certainly, the core issues around access, marketing and basic commercial terms are the same. The primary difference is the new platforms are very large, foreign (mostly U.S.)…
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MONTREAL — Bell Media announced Monday it has hired Lucie Quenneville (pictured) as the new general manager of programming and acquisition strategies for Bell Media in Quebec, effective July 20.
Reporting to Suzane Landry, Bell Media’s vice-president of French-language content development and programming, Quenneville will be responsible for programming and acquisition strategies for the V specialty channel and for Crave’s French-language programming.
The new appointment marks Quenneville’s return to the V network, where she worked for six years from 2006-2012, first as director general of development and acquisitions, and then vice-president of programming and acquisitions. From 2013-2016, she was Quebecor Media’s…
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TORONTO — The Canada Media Fund (CMF) released Friday details of $13.3 million in Covid-19 emergency relief funding for underrepresented groups and to support regional diversity in the screen-based industry.
Fifteen per cent of the Government of Canada’s CMF allocation of the Covid-19 Emergency Support Fund for Cultural, Heritage and Sport Organizations will be invested through targeted initiatives to ensure equity, including by region, language and for underrepresented groups, says the news release.
“We recognize many historically marginalized communities within the industry are disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 crisis and were not eligible for other CMF emergency relief funds,” said…
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By Ahmad Hathout
GATINEAU – On Friday Telus made public the board resolution its CEO Darren Entwistle cited during the CRTC’s wireless hearing earlier this year, which says the company will need to free up $1.1 billion if the CRTC carries forward any plan to mandate mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) – companies which ride on incumbent networks without necessarily having their own infrastructure.
The regulator had already expressed a preliminary view prior to the hearing that MVNOs would be appropriate to induce competition in the industry and the federal government has strongly signalled its support for the same.
Telus used audit…
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BURLINGTON – Motorsports specialty service REV TV Canada announced today it will air a new weekly show, Tuning 365, created by Performance Auto & Sound Magazine (PASMAG), starting Thursday July 2 at 8 pm ET.
The weekly show will feature news, interviews and tours from across the aftermarket auto scene, featuring PASMAG journalists and other industry experts.
“We are delighted to be able to collaborate with PASMAG to see their weekly program Tuning 365 on REV TV Canada” said Mike Garrow, president. “PASMAG is such an established and trusted brand in the automotive industry and we are confident Tuning 365 will…
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AS REGIONS ACROSS Canada begin to lift their stricter lockdowns, the severe drop in media investment experienced since the beginning of the mid-March pandemic is starting to flatten out – and when it came to ad spending on digital media in May, it’s begun a small uptick, according to Standard Media Index.
“Over the past three months we have seen the enormous impact Covid-19 has had across most facets of our lives. For the media and advertising industry specifically, we saw media investment in April drop to less than half of last year’s,”…
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