TORONTO – Bob McCown has signed a new multi-year deal with Sportsnet 590 The FAN to remain host of Prime Time Sports, Rogers Media announced today.
McCown is a Toronto institution as he was the original host of Prime Time Sports when the show first launched in 1989 and he remains the most listened-to sports radio personality in the country.
“Bob has helped shape the all-sports radio landscape in Canada and very few, if any, can make that claim,” said Scott Moore, president of Sportsnet and NHL Properties, in the press release. “Bob’s body of work is unparalleled in this…
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TORONTO – Bell Media, Music Canada and Re:Sound, today announced a new cross-platform reporting process which aligns terrestrial broadcast data with digital, ensuring all music industry stakeholders can track their assets with “efficiency, transparency, and accountability, while setting a new industry standard for data reporting.”
The automation of the existing music content distribution tool allows the industry to streamline sound recording data within the Canadian music ecosystem, with this new process spearheaded by Bell Media.
“The new system is part of an ongoing project to develop administrative efficiencies by Music Canada and Re:Sound. Through consolidating multiple data sets, maximizing the…
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Whatever the future of TV may hold
GATINEAU – The rise of online TV distribution platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and others are upending the delicate balance of the Canadian broadcasting system and that means the federal government and the CRTC need to change the way they regulate the sector. In a nutshell, Canadian broadcasters, producers and distributors want these platforms treated the same way they are.
In comments to the CRTC’s consultation on new TV program distribution models (which was requested by the federal government ostensibly as the first step towards modernizing the Broadcasting Act and Telecom Act), many…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association has announced the launch of the 5G Canada Council (5GCC), the opening of 5GCC memberships beyond CWTA Members, and a formal kick-off event in the New Year.
The organization held a 5G conference a year ago and since then, the CWTA has been working with its members and other industry players to establish a forum to identify and discuss the benefits, challenges and priorities related to the development and implementation of 5G networks in Canada. This work has resulted in the establishment of the 5GCC, a cross-sector consortium that will support Canada’s…
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TORONTO – Jenn Kuzmyk has been appointed executive director of the Banff World Media Festival, effective immediately.
In this role, she will be responsible for leading all commercial activities and partnerships related to the conference as well as guiding its path forward as one of the world’s premier screen-based entertainment industry events, reads the press release. She will also manage all sales efforts related to Playback magazine and events. Playback owner Brunico Communications owns the magazine and the festival.
Most recently, Kuzmyk (pictured) was director of international distribution at Proper Rights where she led program sales in English Canada and the…
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MONTREAL and TORONTO – The Cogeco Program Development Fund, the Independent Production Fund and Cogeco Communications announced Monday they’ve concluded an agreement to ensure “the sustainability of the CPDF's Canadian television production funding activities,” says the press release.
This new agreement will become effective on January 1, 2018.
The CPDF and the IPF had been co-operating with each other since 1992 by sharing resources for the processing of funding applications and the administration of the CPDF's program funding activities, which are supported financially by the annual contributions of Cogeco's regulated broadcasting distribution undertakings to independent production funds and the returns…
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MONTREAL – As Bell Canada CEO George Cope warned a month ago – his company was not about to let Telus, Rogers and Freedom keep the low-cost wireless market to themselves and in response, the company announced the launch of Lucky Mobile today.
Created to compete with Rogers’ chatr, Telus’ Public Moble and Shaw’s Freedom (and it seems the initial markets being launched are exactly Freedom’s footprint), the low-cost prepaid brand’s plans start at $20/month, for talk and text, but not data, a price which generally undercuts everyone in the space. (Chatr offers a…
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GATINEAU – Toronto-based lawyer Monique Lafontaine has been named the CRTC’s new Commissioner for Ontario.
Wednesday’s announcement by Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly says that Lafontaine (pictured) brings over 17 years' experience in entertainment and communications law to the role, and that her areas of specialization include television, radio, new media regulation, program licencing and affiliation agreements, stakeholder relations, and anti-spam and privacy legislation.
Lafontaine, who is fluently bilingual, will begin her five-year post on January 2nd, 2018. According to her LinkedIn profile, she held senior roles at ZoomerMedia, the Directors Guild of Canada and law firm McCarthy Tétrault before opening her own communications and entertainment…
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Reunites art and technology for a brighter future
SEPTEMBER 28 WAS ONE of the most important days in Canadian history and we missed it. On that day, Canadian Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly launched our new cultural policy, Creative Canada.
In Canada, artists need our support. We made the decision to support them in the middle of the last century when we realized our historical connection to England and France, and physical proximity to the United States, meant Canadian culture might get lost amid louder voices.
Now our artists need help transitioning to the digital world. More importantly, the digital world, our…
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OTTAWA – Decreases in CO2 emissions and water consumption helped to boost results in the CBC/Radio-Canada’s latest corporate Environmental Performance Report.
The report highlights the public broadcaster's environmental performance from April 2016 to March 2017.
Footprint decreases were recorded in most company categories, most notably with fleet vehicle CO2 emissions dropping 10.7% and water consumption decreasing 8.6% versus 2015-2016. In terms of industry benchmarks, the report says that the broadcaster performed better than the BOMA BEST certified building standard for water consumption and the Natural Resources Canada standard for energy consumption.
Other highlights from the report include:
– Electric car charging stations…
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