OTTAWA – Claude Lemieux has been hired as vice-president of communications and member services at the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association.
A well-known figure in the production industry, Lemieux has extensive experience in communications, marketing, training, and event management in the film and television industry.
"The association has an ambitious plan to expand services for members in the future and we are confident Claude’s energy and enthusiasm will be a huge addition to help make this happen," said CFTPA president and CEO Guy Mayson.
Over the years, Lemieux helped co-ordinate Canadian industry representation at MIP-TV and MIPCOM, the…
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IMAGINE OWNING A BUSINESS and being able to access a product that was essential to your success, that makes up the bulk of the service you provide, and that you use more of in more effective ways over a period of 25 years with no annual percentage increase on the rate you pay for that product.
In a recent decision by the Copyright Board of Canada, which increased SOCAN licence fees for the use of music 2003-2007 for commercial radio stations, the board acknowledged that the current rate had not been changed for over 25 years; furthermore, they stated…
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TORONTO – The Colbert Report put us hosers on notice Monday night.
On the Canadian premiere of The Colbert Report on CTV and The Comedy Network, host Stephen Colbert took on two-dollar coins, the softwood lumber dispute, Prime Minister Paul Martin, Canadian beer, gun-related crime and the cross-border drug trade – all within 3 minutes and 23 seconds – in his signature segment "The Word."
Describing Canada as America’s "pale sister to the North," Colbert gave a sly shout-out to his Canadian fans by noting that "by watching this show, you’re a country that gets it," recounts Tuesday’s CTV…
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WINNIPEG – The CAB ended its two-day conference with a rocking mini-concert put on by Canadian music legends Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman.
After hearing Doc Walker and Eagle & Hawk (in between awards, the winners of which are outlined below) Cummings and Bachman (The Guess Who, BTO, etc.), Winnipeg natives who were inducted into the CAB Hall of Fame on Tuesday, played a four-song set and were coaxed into an encore, too.
How many times has your station played these favourites, which Cummings (on the piano, flute and vocals) and Bachman (on guitar and vocals) performed as a…
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WINNIPEG – It’s still early days for high definition in Canada but with costs for broadcast equipment and the sets themselves coming down, it won’t be early for long.
Randall Dark, one of the speakers at the HDTV session Tuesday at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters annual convention in Winnipeg, runs HD Vision Studios and says he sees no reason why the whole industry can’t more quickly move into HD.
In the U.S., where he’s based, it’s taken off “like a rocket ship,” and if broadcasters and the production industry don’t move on HD, “you will lose market share,”…
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OTTAWA – Lost a little in the shuffle of the CAB Convention is the fact that the CRTC told Canada’s private broadcasters that it intends to start the radio review process, soon
A letter sent to the Canadian Association of Broadcasters on Friday said that despite the industry’s pleas for delay, as outlined in stories on www.cartt.ca, the Commission is going ahead with the radio review.
“While the Commission feels that you have raised some interesting points, it considers that a review of the Commercial Radio Policy is timely and that any further delay would not be advisable, especially…
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TWO NEW DEALS, BOTH announced Monday, will see hit shows from American conventional broadcasters made available on demand through cable and satellite carriers.
Comcast, North America’s largest MSO, with 22 million subscribers, unveiled its deal with CBS that will see CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, Survivor and The Amazing Race added to the video on demand service for Comcast digital customers. The cost? 99-cents.
UPDATE: Since CSI is produced by Canada’s Alliance Atlantis, the Canadian company will get a boost from this, too. While the company was not mentioned in the release, we heard back from Alliance Atlantis which confirmed that all revenue earned…
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TORONTO – There’s just one week to go to the groundbreaking CTAM event in Toronto . “Delivering Hyper-targeted TV Advertising” will be held November 15th.
Leonard Asper says that conventional broadcasters should be paid for their signal. Is that the answer? Can Hyper-targeted TV Advertising create new revenue streams and actually raise CPM’s. Hear the panel of experts as they present their insights into the future.
Go to www.ctam.ca, click on Events for complete details, and see below
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What if we could send an ad for Wal-Mart to Scarborough and one for Holt Renfrew to Rosedale, during the same 30…
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OTTAWA – "The CRTC got it right on VoIP,” Canadian Cable Telecommunications president Michael Hennessy said Monday. “This decision creates a framework for competitors to enter the local telephone market. VoIP and new digital phone services will only be able to offer consumers an alternative to monopoly telephone service, if there are basic safeguards to prevent anti-competitive behaviour.
“There is no need to overturn this decision when consumers are already reaping the benefits of ending a 100 year monopoly in the local telephone market."
The CCTA today replied to “the monopoly phone companies’” request that Federal Cabinet overturn…
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CANWEST MEDIAWORKS TV AND radio president Kathleen Dore is one year into her overhaul of Global Television.
She has brought in new senior executives on the marketing and programming side who are all dedicated to righting a ship that in the ratings, had fallen well back of the market leader, CTV.
Dore (left) was appointed just over a year ago after 21 years in New York with Rainbow Media. She was president, entertainment services, for U.S. cable networks AMC (American Movie Classics), IFC (Independent Film Channel) and WE (Women’s Entertainment) and was responsible for the development, launch and success…
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