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OTTAWA – During this time of major upheaval in broadcasting, which has seen the ascension of Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video, and The Walt Disney Company’s acquisition of FOX in March, Canadian content producers and distributors need to accelerate a move outside the box rather than feel overwhelmed by the rapid and consequential changes to programming, according to the head of Canada’s national LGBTQ television network, which is doing just that.
Brad Danks, CEO of OUTtv told the Policy 3.0 communications law conference at the University of Ottawa on May 10, about the network’s…
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TORONTO – RTDNA Canada also announced its national RTDNA Awards of Excellence winners, honouring the best journalists, programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in radio, television and digital.
“Congratulations to all the 2019 RTDNA award winners – we saw the best of the best in journalism and storytelling from across Canada. Every nominee and winner should be proud of their accomplishments,” said RTDNA Canada president Fiona Conway, in the news release.
The 2019 National winners are:
Digital
Best Podcast
CBC Saskatchewan – Boushie
Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award
CBC Saskatchewan – Humboldt Broncos Bus Crash
Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award
CBC Toronto – Toronto Van Attack
Data…
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TORONTO – RTDNA Canada recognized journalistic excellence over the weekend, announcing the winners of its Network RTDNA Awards of Excellence.
The 2019 winners are:
Digital
Best News App
CBC News – CBC News App
Best Podcast
CBC News – Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo
Best Sports App
Sportsnet – Sportsnet Sports App
Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award
Global News – Toronto Van Attack
Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award
TSN – CTE Coverage on tsn.ca
Data Storytelling
HuffPost Canada / The Discourse / APTN – #TrackingTransMountain
Digital Media Award
CBC News – Cannabis and Legalization in Canada
Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award
Global News – GenZED: Canada’s Untapped Generation
Social Media Award
Global News – First…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has ordered a bevy of broadcasters to get it the information that it asked for so that it may move forward with its plan to update the policy on Canadian programming expenditures (CPE).
The Commission on Friday issued a direction to comply with a request for information to 14 broadcasters for their data on revenues and expenditures associated with their digital media broadcasting activities, specifically in the context of CPE. While some of the 20 broadcasters who received the request for information letter in March have complied, the Regulator received joint reply from 14…
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OTTAWA–GATINEAU – The CRTC is once again seeking volunteers to help it measure the performance of home wireline broadband Internet services provided by the country’s major Internet service providers.
Under the Measuring Broadband Canada program, the Commission will work in collaboration with ISPs and broadband testing firm SamKnows to measure broadband performance and test parameters associated with the broadband Internet connection, including download and upload speeds.
While some providers offer advertised speeds of 1Gbps or faster, services above 940Mbps cannot be measured with a conventional speed test, meaning that speed tiers of 1Gbps or faster are excluded from the 2019 Measuring…
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Company asks CRTC to step into toll free dispute with Bell
GATINEAU – Frustrated with stalled negotiations with Bell Canada on how toll-free calls should be handled going forward, Rogers Communications last week filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC asking the Commission to settle the dispute.
Rogers contends Bell is profiting twice from certain toll-free calls because it won’t change the historic way it has handled them, despite changes Rogers has made and this inaction means Bell is providing itself with an undue preference. The impasse has dragged on for seven months, says Rogers.
While this sounds like a bit…
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TORONTO – Canada’s three big private broadcasters, Bell Media, Corus Entertainment, and Rogers Media, have petitioned the CRTC to exempt them from providing described video to non-Canadian programs received less than 72 hours prior to broadcast without described video.
The Canadian National Institute for the Blind is not happy.
This would be contrary to a mandate from the CRTC where broadcasters were told to provide described video for all shows during prime-time hours starting in September 2019.
TVA has asked the CRTC to relax their conditions, too.
In 2015, the CRTC announced plans to increase the availability of described video and mandated that…
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Needs local data for a proper analysis
OTTAWA – It’s rare for a bureaucratic back-and-forth to be quite so public, but with so much at stake, the Commissioner for Competition doesn’t want to take no for an answer when it comes to the granular market data he wants from Canadian wireless companies.
As part of its submission to the CRTC’s review of mobile wireless services, the Competition Bureau wants to do a detailed study on what happened in regions and cities (not just in provinces and nationally) when new wireless competitors to the Big Three (Rogers, Bell and Telus) were introduced….
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MONTREAL — An announcement of new jobs that won't even fill a school bus isn't usually enough to warrant a visit from the federal industry minister, but 30 new jobs in artificial intelligence at a global high-tech company working on the latest wireless technology prompted excitement from the man who has science and innovation literally in his title, so Navdeep Bains paid a visit to Ericsson's new Montreal home on Thursday.
The wireless giant announced it is building what it calls a "Global Artificial Intelligence Accelerator innovation hub" based out of Montreal, which will work with similar teams around the…
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TORONTO – While there’s still a few weeks until summer, Rogers’ Citytv kicked off its summer schedule on Monday which this year will include six new series and six returning favourites.
New summer series include Paradise Hotel, hosted by reality TV maven Kristin Cavallari (The Hills), where contestants check in – and make out – for a chance to win big money; new game show Spin the Wheel, from executive producer Justin Timberlake and hosted by Dax Shepard (Hit and Run); fresh reboots of retro favourites, Card Sharks, hosted by Joel McHale (Community), and Press Your Luck; and new…
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