TORONTO – The issue of “content discoverability” may force Canada’s audiovisual production sector to reinvent itself, and change the dynamic between producers, broadcasters and distributors, says a new report from stakeholders on the eve of the CRTC’s Discoverability Summit.
Discoverability: Toward a Common Frame of Reference, published by the Canada Media Fund (CMF) with financing from the National Film Board of Canada, Telefilm Canada, and the support of CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitor, is intended as a means for the Canadian audiovisual industry’s community and its stakeholders to develop a common understanding of the discoverability concept. The report provides an in-depth look…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – CTAM Canada is kicking off summer with its second annual Leadership Forum followed by a BBQ atop Corus Quay on Toronto's waterfront.
Scheduled for June 20, the Leadership Forum will feature conversations with industry leaders discussing their businesses, their priorities and their views on our changing industry. The event will be followed by CTAM Canada's Summer BBQ which will include dinner, beverages, and music.
Access to the CTAM Summer BBQ is limited to attendees of CTAM Canada's Leadership Forum event. Details on speakers and tickets will be available soon – plese save the date.
www.ctam.ca
Continue Reading
TORONTO – CTV’s veteran sports and weather anchor Jeff Hutcheson said Friday that he will wrap up 40 years in broadcasting, including 18 years at Canada AM, early this summer.
Hutcheson (pictured) began his career in 1976 at CKCO-TV in Kitchener, ON, presently known as CTV Kitchener. After working there for 20 years, he began working part-time for Canada AM in 1992, moving to the show in a permanent capacity in August 1998.
Dubbed Canada’s king of the remote broadcast, Hutcheson has broadcast from nearly 400 locations across Canada and around the world, including France, England, Ireland, and Australia. He will…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Can Canada maintain a rights market of its own for cultural content in the face of rampant and rapid technological change? If so, how? Should we? At what costs? What would any new rules say?
These very difficult, complex questions, along with Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly’s recent announcement that our aged legislation covering Canadian content rules will soon be getting an overhaul, were front and centre during the first morning of the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Biennial conference into new developments in communications law and policy at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa.
For example,…
Continue Reading
MONTREAL – The federal government and CRTC should allow “competitive pressure” to spur the telecommunications industry’s investments in new broadband infrastructure, and not repeat the “mistakes" caused by intervening in the wireless sector, says a new report released Thursday by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI).
“Critics who note that access to high-speed Internet is limited in some regions of Canada, or among less advantaged socioeconomic groups, invariably conclude that government intervention will be necessary to close the gap, but what they consider a market failure is actually just the normal course of technology adoption”, reads the 2016 edition of The State of Competition in…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Despite television’s reign as the most-watched medium across all demographics, growth in TV advertising in Canada is stagnant, says a new paper by media agency MediaCom Canada.
Commissioned by TV marketing and research association thinktv, Missed Opportunities in Media Planning (and the Case for ROI) analyses the correlation between TV investment and key financial indicators, the impact that TV has on digital, and the factors that are impeding TV advertising’s growth in this country.
Key highlights from the whitepaper include:
– There is a direct correlation between TV spend and business growth: 50 companies in Canada whose TV spend…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Women in Film & Television – Toronto (WIFT-T) has named Jackie English as the recipient of the 2016 William F. White Production Manager Mentorship.
The mentorship provides ten days of immersive hands-on production training at William F. White and pairs English with established production managers. The mentorship also comes with a $1500 equipment rental grant at William F. White.
English (pictured) was selected based on her portfolio which demonstrates a range of outstanding talent and skills: from producer and host at TVO, to founding a film collective which produced eight short films in under a year, and, most…
Continue Reading
REGINA – Rawlco Radio CEO Gordon Rawlinson has been named as one of the 2016 recipients of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, the province’s highest honour.
Established in 1985, the Saskatchewan Order of Merit recognizes excellence, achievement and contributions to the social, cultural and economic well-being of the province and its people. It acknowledges individuals who have made their mark in the arts, agriculture, business, industry, community leadership, occupations, professions, public service, research and volunteer service.
Based in Saskatoon, Rawlco Radio is a private, family-owned media company that holds seven radio licences – three in Saskatoon, three in Regina and…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Corus Entertainment’s animation and licensing division Nelvana today announced the appointment of Pam Westman to Head, Nelvana Enterprises.
She will oversee brand development and management across the Nelvana portfolio, including retail management, licensing, consumer products, content sales, and digital on a global basis.
Westman brings more than 20 years of international industry experience in licensing, consumer products, marketing, and content sales to Nelvana, reads the company’s press release. She will report to Scott Dyer, president, Nelvana.
“As we focus on the continued growth of our international business and our strategy to own more content, convincing Pam to return…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – BCE’s proposed acquisition of MTS will not only contradict the previous government’s push for four wireless players in every market, it could open the door for further consolidation in the rest of the market.
Canaccord Genuity Corp. analyst Aravinda Galappatthige said approval of the $3.9 billion BCE/MTS deal would “set a significant precedent, as it would reduce Manitoba to a three-player wireless market from four.”
“As a result, we also believe that this would give Shaw a potential exit strategy in wireless should it decide to sell Wind”, he wrote in a client note Monday. “In addition, we…
Continue Reading
