TORONTO – The Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA) and the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), and the Association québécoise de la production médiatique (AQPM) jointly announced Thursday that they have reached a deal on a new three-year Independent Production Agreement (IPA).
The ACTRA Independent Production Agreement establishes the terms, conditions and rates for on- and off-camera performers engaged on English-language productions in Canada, excluding British Columbia, which operates under a separate collective agreement. The current 2016-2018 agreement is set to expire on December 31, 2018.
The agreement in principle will now be presented to…
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And it needs to be much better
TORONTO – Getting your latest TV show discovered and viewed in a fast-changing media landscape may be as easy as asking Alexa or an X1-powered voice remote.
"Voice search is now revolutionizing how content is being discovered," Michael Gray, senior manager of on demand and SVODs at Rogers Communications, told the CTAM Broadcasters’ Forum in Toronto on Tuesday.
The days of just scrolling through channel guides may be numbered, agreed Erik Ramberg, vice president of global business development at MediaKind, formerly Ericsson Media Solutions. "Alexa: watch The Handmaid's Tale," is all you need to…
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TORONTO – Length matters.
That's one of the findings of a poll of Canadian TV viewers and the video content they consume which was conducted by Charlton Strategic Research, and unveiled Tuesday at the CTAM Broadcaster’s Forum in Toronto on Tuesday.
Charlton's Gord Hendren told conference attendees that an online survey of 3,168 Canadians over 18 years of age revealed the total time spent watching long-form video content, or over five minutes in length, is up among total Canadian TV viewers.
Millennials, though, are bucking the trend.
Hendren said his poll revealed younger Canadian TV viewers from 18-34 years of age spend less…
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TORONTO – Radio is killing the radio star and needs a rebuilt system focused on creating local content if it’s ever to bring audiences back from listening to music on the Internet. That was the consensus from an industry panel (pictured) on the state of radio held last week at the Ontario Association of Broadcasters 2018 Conference at the Toronto Airport Marriott.
“Music has become commoditized,” argued Geoff Poulton, president of Vista Radio, which owns 41 smaller market radio stations in B.C, Alberta, Ontario and the Northwest Territories.
“You used to compete on music in the good old days. We have…
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TORONTO – Global News has kicked off a new original, short-form digital series starring extraordinary women that are being seen and heard in a variety of industries.
Rise profiles Eva Wong, co-founder/COO of Canadian fin-tech startup Borrowell; Jennifer Huether, Canada’s first female Master Sommelier; Karen Moore, writer/producer (Workin’ Moms, Rookie Blue, Mary Kills People); and Maayan Ziv, accessibility advocate and founder/CEO of accessibility app AccessNow.
New episodes of Rise will be released weekly, each Thursday, on Globalnews.ca and the Global News YouTube channel and will also be featured on select Global National broadcasts across the country throughout its run.
In…
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TORONTO – Together, Tim Denton, Peter Menzies and Candice Molnar have overseen some of the biggest decisions the CRTC has made over the past decade as former CRTC commissioners. Wouldn’t it be something to get them all together for a candid conversation about what they thought they got right and wrong and what they really think of the Regulator’s role?
Even more so now given we are in the midst of a legislative review of the Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Radiocommunication Acts. Dream no longer, that’s exactly what transpired on the last day of the 2018 Canadian ISP Summit in Toronto…
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My friend Mark took his own life this past summer.
There should be a stronger word than shocked to describe how it felt when I found out. I was at work, got up from my desk and just left to walk for a long while. My brain couldn’t and still can’t process it.
Mark Freedman was always so bright and cheery with me. He was smart, incisive, fun to talk to and knew this industry inside and out. He knew why things are the way they are better than most others I know. I counted Mark as a friend but he…
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PIAC reiterates FairPlay opposition
OTTAWA – A representative of Canada’s Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright – an alliance of Canadian telecommunications providers including Bell, Rogers, Vidéotron and others – says while its members support a regime that rewards and protects creators, facilitates access to creative content, makes investment in technology and supports educational research, the removal of exceptions added to Canada’s Copyright Act in 2012 would put hundreds of millions of dollars at risk.
“ exceptions added to the Copyright Act in 2012 were necessary to eliminate uncertainty that would restrict or inhibit the development of new products and services,” Jay…
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TORONTO – The CRTC’s 2015 decision to move from an aggregated to disaggregated wholesale high-speed access service (HSA) model has ended up placing enormous cost increases on independent ISPs and will further limit competitiveness with a coming cap on Internet speeds, said Matt Stein, president of the Canadian Network Operators Consortium.
“Without changes to the disaggregated regime, our industry will be prevented from keeping prices sane, innovating, and delivering the improved customer relationship we’re known for,” Stein said in a keynote on Tuesday at the 2018 Canadian ISP Summit in Toronto. (He's pictured in a snap borrowed from Distributel's Twitter…
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TORONTO – The YouTube channel showcasing classic Canadian content has attracted almost 30,000 subscribers in its first year.
Encore+ said that its curated, iconic Canadian content has been viewed nearly 6.2 million times, with 54% of views coming from within Canada and 46% from elsewhere, primarily the U.S. With 1,647 pieces of individual content, including feature-length films, shorts, documentaries, drama series, children’s and youth content, some of the most popular English-language titles include Mr. Dressup; Are You Afraid of the Dark?; Deaf Planet; This Is Wonderland; The Littlest Hobo; National Parks Project and Ready or Not. French-speaking fans are…
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