TORONTO – The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) has named Cathia Badiere as ACTRA National director, research, effective immediately.
Badiere (pictured) was senior research manager at Ipsos Reid and most recently was senior sector policy advisor at the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Growth. In her new role, she will oversee ACTRA’s collective bargaining, policy and industry research to support the organization’s objective of improving the working lives of Canadian professional performers.
“Cathia’s innovative analytics and research experience will be a great asset for ACTRA”, said national executive director and chief negotiator Stephen Waddell, in Tuesday’s…
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TORONTO – Expectations will be high for Joe Natale when he takes the elevator up to the 10th floor of 333 Bloor St. E. for the first time as CEO of Rogers Communications.
Since he has such a long history in Canadian telecom and wireless and stellar track record leading so much of the growth at Telus since joining that company in 2003 (and departing in 2015), Bay Street expects Natale to waste no time making his presence and his priorities felt.
BMO Capital Markets telecom/media/cable financial analyst Tim Casey even went so far as to construct a top-10…
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HALIFAX – DHX Media has signed nine new distribution deals for the first season of its original animated series Fangbone!
The children's TV producer said Thursday that Fangbone! (pictured) has been licensed to linear broadcasters ABC ME for Australia, CITV in the UK, Gulli & Canal J for France, Discovery in Italy, MBC3 for the Middle East, Ultra in the former Yugoslavia, Zoom in Israel, and Canal Panda for Portugal. In addition, a subscription video-on-demand deal with Netflix has been signed for second window streaming rights worldwide.
Fangbone! is an original DHX Television commission, which airs on Family CHRGD in Canada,…
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TORONTO – RTDNA Canada will award Mike Cavender the 2017 RTDNA Bill Hutton Award of Excellence at the President’s Reception on May 26 during the 2017 RTDNA National Conference & Awards Gala.
Formerly known as the ‘Friend of RTNDA Canada Award’, the award was renamed in 2009 to honour the late Bill Hutton, RTNDA Canada's first president. The award is given to individuals or organizations which have shown a true commitment to RTNDA and the betterment of broadcast journalism in Canada.
Cavender (pictured) was named executive director of RTDNA (International) in 2011, after more than 20 years of service in virtually…
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YOU CAN ALWAYS SAVE money and maximize return on investment in advertising if you refine your target audience and spend money on the lowest hanging fruit – those consumers who represent your best opportunity for driving sales.
However, if brands take money away from broad awareness marketing at the ‘top of the funnel’ to do this, they will fail to replenish that low hanging fruit and their market share will shrink.
This is part of the warning Irwin Gotlieb, Global Chairman at GroupM, will deliver to a discussion at Future TV Advertising Forum Canada next week about the merits of TV…
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THE SUBSCRIPTION TELEVISION industry likes to say that outright cord-cutting (defined as when a consumer abandons a TV subscription altogether) is still a pretty small phenomenon.
So far, overall, that remains technically true. The latest numbers show about two percent of Canadian households with a TV subscription have chosen to cut the cord and stop subscribing to traditional TV. Generally, it’s been a story of “flat is the new up”, while inside of the likes of Rogers, Shaw, Cogeco, Bell and others, hardworking employees are doing their best to swallow hard every day and manage substantial…
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TORONTO – Guy O’Sullivan, founder and president of Canadian production company Proper Television, passed away suddenly over the weekend at the age of 49.
With a career in the television industry spanning more than 20 years, O’Sullivan began as a print journalist in the U.K. before producing and directing shows for the BBC between 1994 and 2000. He moved to Canada and founded Proper Television in 2004, which had success with original shows such as Don’t Drive Here and Vegas Rat Rods.
Proper Television is also behind CBC’s True North Calling as well as the creation of Canadian versions of major…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – All wireless service providers must join Canada’s National Public Alerting System by next April, the CRTC said Thursday.
Emergency alert messages are issued by federal, provincial and territorial governments and emergency management officials to warn the public of imminent threats, such as fires, tornadoes, floods, water contamination and Amber Alerts.
Once the system is in place, wireless public alerting will allow emergency management officials to send alerts to mobile devices connected to LTE networks, which the CRTC said are now available to over 97% of Canadians. Once an alert has been distributed, Canadians will hear the same alert…
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File CRTC application to review and vary Basic Service Objective decision
GATINEAU – Three consumer groups filed an application with the CRTC asking it to review and vary its much ballyhooed basic service objective decision – one which make access to broadband a fundamental part of telecom service to Canadians.
ACORN Canada, the National Pensioners Federation, and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre say the Commission must alter Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2016-496, Modern telecommunications services – The path forward for Canada’s digital economy because the new policy does not establish an affordability funding mechanism for low-income telecommunications users.
The filing says the…
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TORONTO – Bell Media said today it has signed a deal with Ole, an independent rights management company, to market the Canadian media company’s original music, worldwide.
The deal is an exclusive music publishing and administration partnership “encompassing Bell Media's extensive in-house music catalog. With this deal, ole has concluded $20-million in acquisitions in the first quarter of 2017,” reads the press release.
The multi-year deal will increase revenue generated from Bell Media's collection of more than 12,000 tracks, including TV music such as "The Hockey Theme" (the original Hockey Night in Canada theme music which was commissioned by CBC…
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