Cartt.ca EXCLUSIVE podcast: Heather Conway, EVP English Services, CBC-Radio-Canada.
JOIN BILL ROBERTS (former president and CEO of VisionTV) in an exclusive Cartt.ca podcast with Conway as she talks about CBC host firings, the effect of the CRTC’s Let's Talk […]
BANFF 2015: Trends and other lies
BANFF – Telling trends from fads is too often a mugs game. A peek at Amazon suggests that a book on trends seems to be written every 15 minutes and […]
BANFF 2015: Why Irish eyes are smiling!
BANFF – Ireland (the republic), has a population of roughly 4.5 million folks, and yet it was one of the first countries to create a tax relief program for independent […]
BANFF 2015: Who are we? Or will Silicon Valley buy out Hollywood?
BANFF – Identity figured prominently as Monday took shape at the 2015 Banff World Media Festival. Jill Soloway, creator of Transparent, provided her own version of the paradox of plenty […]
BANFF 2015: TV Is Dead, Long Live TV!
BANFF – While it has certainly morphed, like the media it celebrates, The Banff World Media Fest remains the only gathering of its kind dedicated to the global business of […]
One more thing from BANFF 2014: A future as roadkill may await
JUST WHEN I WAS GETTING used to my phone being a TV and my TV being a phone, life got more complicated. Now we're doing business in an era of […]
BANFF 2014: We don’t really want much choice
BANFF – One of the funkiest sessions at Banff was titled "Consumers and Choice: What Works And What Doesn't". In the context of the federal government’s Throne Speech promise to […]
BANFF 2014: Shorter series runs, more new stuff, no more repeats, make it available everywhere and dump lousy channels
BANFF – One in four Canadians is a 4 screen consumer; and Canada per capita is the number one user of Facebook. Close to 40% of us readily watch TV […]
BANFF 2014: Millennials and their video desires dominate the conversation, as usual
BANFF – On Sunday, seven wise folk sat as a panel to road-map what the future holds for our business. These were: moderator Peter Sussman, executive director of Aver Media […]
BANFF 2014: Minister Glover sings industry’s praises, stays mum on CBC
BANFF – While Shelly Glover, our Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, hasn’t spoken publicly to or about the industry very much since her appointment last July, (we at […]