MONTREAL – Hundreds of police officers, investigators and federal officers gathered yesterday at the Quebec National Police Academy, in Nicolet, to share information and investigative techniques to combat piracy, counterfeiting and other forms of fraud at the first Conference on Intellectual Property hosted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Quebec.
Intellectual property fraud is mainly related to the illegal counterfeiting and sale of consumer goods or services. This type of crime affects different areas of activities: theft of satellite television signals, and counterfeiting of designer clothes, popular household items and even pharmaceuticals. There are as many types of…
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By Laurel Hyatt OTTAWA – Rising copyright fees, onerous content regulations, declining youth listenership, and competition from the Internet and other digital media are just some of the things that may be keeping Canadian radio executives up at night. But there are a few positive developments, a group of top leaders said on Tuesday.
At a session of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters convention in Ottawa, radio leaders in a united front lamented the challenges the industry faces, including the “exploding copyright issues,” in the words of Elmer Hildebrand, president and CEO of Manitoba-based Golden West Broadcasting Ltd., who…
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TORONTO – Global Television has named this year’s winners of the Broadcasters of the Future Awards. They are Scott Best of Winnipeg, Felicia Hsuen-Ling Yap of Calgary, and Morgan Barrett Schaller of Wilmer, B.C.
The annual awards offer a series of scholarship, internship, and mentorship programs to encourage and aid talented Canadians toward establishing or furthering careers in the Canadian broadcast industry.
“We commend all of this year’s applicants for their hard work and interest in the broadcast industry,” said Kathy Dore, President, Canadian Television, CanWest MediaWorks. “The recipients of this year’s awards astonished us with the passion and…
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OTTAWA – While all around us changes in terms of technology and available platforms – and how we all use them to consume media – the way television and radio audiences are measured is facing just as much upheaval.
During a couple of sessions at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters annual convention here in Ottawa, broadcasters, advertisers, and those charged with counting and breaking down the data, expounded on their visions of the future of ratings.
Broadcasters want better measurement – the currency they use to lure advertisers to their product. Advertisers want that too and are increasingly demanding…
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TORONTO – Emily Bellavy of Tecumseh, Ont. is this year’s recipient of the Alliance Atlantis Diversity in Broadcasting Internship, awarded in partnership with Women in Film and Television – Toronto (WIFT-T).
Bellavy begins her three-month internship this month, and will assist in the co-ordination of CRTC documents and research information on regulatory affairs and Government policy. She’ll also meet government broadcasting regulatory leaders in Ottawa.
The award will be presented to Bellavy at the Crystal Awards Gala Luncheon on Dec. 3, 2007 in Toronto.
The internship program offers an entry-level visible minority or aboriginal woman the opportunity to gain…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s private broadcasters were told Monday to stop “signing over primetime to a different country” and “put more Canada on TV”.
At a demonstration outside the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ convention here Monday, Canadian TV stars and hundreds of ACTRA members and supporters criticized the industry for feeding Hollywood and starving Canada’s home-grown talent.
“Those people call themselves Canadian broadcasters. I say that’s a name you have to earn, and you don’t earn it by producing zero one-hour dramatic shows and signing over Canada’s primetime to a different country,” said Corner Gas star Eric Peterson.
The demonstration…
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OTTAWA – Amid strains of Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers and images of our melting north, Canadian Association of Broadcasters president and CEO Glenn O’Farrell strode onto the stage at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa this morning and began to spin an interesting – if unusual – metaphor.
The CAB CEO drew parallels between the warming that is happening in the Arctic with the massive changes staring Canadian media companies in the face at this moment in time.
Not long ago, scientists thought that the fabled Northwest Passage, for so long locked in by ice, might be navigable –…
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OTTAWA – Facing criticism that they spend too little on Canadian programming, Canada’s private broadcasters have answered with a report that says they’re spending more than ever on original Canadian programming.
The report, released Monday by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB), says eligible expenditures on Canadian programming by Canadian private conventional, pay and specialty television broadcasters totalled almost $1.5 billion in 2005-06.
“Private broadcasters in this country recognize that their audiences want to see Canadian stories on television. The numbers released today reflect the commitment of broadcasters to providing Canadians with a wide selection of home grown programming,”…
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MONTREAL – With Industry Canada preparing to auction off new wireless frequencies in the new year (and nearing the announcement of the rules surrounding that auction), Videotron is keeping up the pressure so it can too can get a piece of the action, more cheaply than in a wide open auction.
In a speech to the Metropolitan Montreal Board of Trade Thursday, Videotron president and CEO Robert Dépatie relaunched his company’s attack against the three existing wireless carriers, saying they’re afraid to see “real competitors who’ll offer better prices and will force them to reduce their own rates.”
At…
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OTTAWA – Upon the start of its annual convention, the first missive fired by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters was a resolution passed by its members denouncing the copyright demands being made by Canadian music labels.
The labels want extra royalties to be paid by radio stations who may make copies of music files in-house to aid with production and broadcast.
At the CAB’s annual general meeting held this afternoon, the unanimously passed resolution “exposes the recording industry’s intention to use the Copyright Act to have the private radio industry make up its losses due to file sharing,” says…
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