OTTAWA – A collection of Canada’s leading cultural organizations emerged from a meeting with the federal culture minister and several of her provincial/territorial counterparts Monday, united in their determination to see a Canadian-originated treaty on cultural protection enshrined in international law.
While free trade deals and WTO wrangling sort out how countries sell each other commercial goods and services, few international statutes define the treatment of cultural products such as TV programs, films, music, books and magazines.
The UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) convention on cultural diversity – recognizing every sovereign state’s right to create, support…
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OTTAWA – Canadian music legends Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings will be inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Hall of Fame at next month’s CAB annual convention in Winnipeg.
Bachman and Cummings (who are both from Winnipeg) will be inducted into the Music Star category at the Gold Ribbon Awards Gala on Tuesday, November 8th.
“We cannot think of a more fitting tribute to these immensely talented artists” said Rob Braide, chair of the CAB Board of Directors. “Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings have been instrumental to the success of the Canadian music industry, both at home and…
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MONTREAL – The man who built Videotron into the third-largest cable company in Canada will receive the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award in October.
Chagnon (after selling his company for over $5 billion) continues to make significant contributions in Québec by leading the organization he founded to help children in need.
Just this week, he pledged $400 million to tackle child obesity in the province of Quebec.
The award will be presented to Mr. Chagnon at a ceremony and banquet in Montréal on October 25.
“Mr. Chagnon showed an unparalleled dedication to the…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Gold Ribbon Awards honour achievement in broadcasting in various categories including community service, breaking news, humour, public affairs, and promotion of Canadian talent.
The awards will be presented during The Future Summit, the CAB’s 2005 Convention in Winnipeg, November 6 -8, 2005. The complete list of finalists, below, was released Thursday.
A total of 457 entries were received. These awards are among the most prestigious in the Canadian broadcasting industry, and recognize outstanding productions in radio, television, specialty and pay services, and community service. After reviewing the entries, the judges selected 124…
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TORONTO – Multi-faith, multicultural, specialty service VisionTV has introduced a new web site to highlight its array of diversity initiatives.
This week’s launch of the site (www.visiontv.ca/Diversity/index.htm) coincides with the opening of the Innoversity Creative Summit 2005, a two-day event in Toronto that explores issues related to diversity in the media industry. VisionTV is a silver sponsor and participates actively in this annual gathering.
"Our mission as a broadcaster is to promote understanding among Canadians of different beliefs and backgrounds. We hope this site will become a valuable resource for people seeking inspiration and ideas for promoting diversity…
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THE CTV-MTV DEAL announced today, while very important for CTV and awfully painful for CHUM, which loses its MTV content, is just a little piece of the enormous change the broadcast television industry is facing – on a number of fronts.
To me, it’s part of “the new TV,” for lack of a better term, where traditional boundaries are quickly breaking down. The lines between broadcast, specialty and pay are blurring to the point that they matter less and less from a viewer’s perspective every day.
People watch shows. They want content. The fact that it’s on CTV or…
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TORONTO – In October, Asian Television Network International will launch four more digital channels, which will bring its line up to eleven digital specialty channels serving the fast-growing population of the South Asian Community in Canada.
The new channels are: ATN Zee Cinema, ATN Zee Gujarati, ATN Aastha & ATN Bangla and will be launched on October 13, 2005 and will be on air 24/7. The current channels already in operation include ATN’s flagship channel ATN-ZEE, ATN B4U, (Bollywood for you). ATN-Alpha ETC Punjabi, ATN-Jaya TV, ATN-ARY, CBN, the Commonwealth Broadcasting Network, and the most recently launched Sony Entertainment…
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LLOYDMINSTER, Alta./Sask. – It’s rare enough in Canada these days to find two stations, owned by the same company, broadcasting in the same small market. But imagine a twin stick in a city that straddles two provinces. Imagine one that is launching a new brand and programming to be carried by both stations.
Newcap Broadcasting, owned by Newfoundland Capital Corporation, is most notably one of Canada’s largest radio broadcasting groups. It acquired its first television assets in January 2005 after it purchased twin stick CKSA/CITL in Lloydminster, Alberta (Saskatchewan, too) from Midwest Broadcasting for $12.4 million. Newcap’s investment in…
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OTTAWA – Technology is making it easier to create animated programming, and adding multiple new distribution platforms, but as broadcasters told creators repeatedly during the second annual Television Animation Conference, none of that matters without strong characters and compelling, universal stories.
The two-day TAC was launched as part of the Ottawa International Animation Festival last year, a major new industry component for the fest, held Sept. 21-25.
“Something had to happen to make (OIAF) more relevant to the industry,” says Madeleine Lévesque, director, original production at Teletoon. “Young and new animators need to be linked to the industry, to…
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PROVIDING ANY KIND OF technology to cable and telecom companies these days isn’t easy. You have to be nimble. You must be prepared for change. Always. So many new services being provided by the MSOs. So many changes to the networks. It helps, says Cableserv president Audley Alexander (right), to have been a part of so many transformations in his 32-plus years in the cable industry.
An electrical engineer, Alexander joined Maclean-Hunter Cable in 1973 and stayed with the company through its purchase by Rogers. He stayed until 1999 when…
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