CBC Radio is thriving… for now
RADIO IS NOT DEAD. Obituaries for the broadcast medium have been written and re-written over the past 10, 20, 30 and even 40 years and, yet, it lives on. Oddly, […]
CBC’s five-year plan a prescription for the broadcaster to heal itself
LAST FALL, AROUND THE TIME of the CBC’s 75th anniversary, Edmonton MP Brent Rathgeber suggested the broadcaster become more commercially self-reliant. It couldn’t fulfill its mandate if “few people are […]
Cartt.ca INVESTIGATES: CBC steels itself for 21st century media evolution
HAMILTON – CBC’s blog about its new Hamilton digital service makes much ado about its new home, a renovated 120-year-old building at 118 James St. N. The Corp’s Steeltown home […]
Part IV: Cancon works in Quebec
THE QUEBEC MARKET is the country’s Bizarro World for Canadian content. Frame its borders with mirrors and the reflected image offers the opposite of everything we know, and believe, in […]
The State of Cancon: The sugar that might help the medicine go down
CANCON’S RULES AND regulations are much like a series of bandages slapped onto the television industry – one here to cover a scrape, another there as salve on a slash. […]
The State of Cancon: What began as a Band-Aid for broadcasters, now a harmful regulation for Cancom
THE YEAR 1972 saw the beginning of the Watergate scandal and the M.A.S.H. television series. It was also the year that the balm of simultaneous substitution (simsub) was handed to Canadian […]
The State of Cancon: We’ve hit the flashpoint of Canadian TV and things must change, say creators
PLAY A GAME WITH THE average English-language Canadian: “Name a Canadian television show”. Exclude Hockey Night in Canada and news. Watch them furrow their brow. “Uh, Flashpoint?” says one friend, […]
Cord-cutting: Either growing OTT players must pay, or the playing field’s lines must be redrawn
LESS THAN A DECADE AGO, the television landscape was a lucrative landscape of BDUs and broadcasters who understood the terrain. Laws were established. Rules followed. Peace (sort of) reigned. Then […]
Cord-Cutting: What are the solutions to surviving and thriving with OTT?
TECHNOLOGY HAS CREATED THIS vast crevasse. On one side is what consumers want. On the other is what the traditional TV industry says they can give them. Nestled in the […]
Cord-Cutting: Are a new species of broadcaster threatening the survival of traditional TV?
LOOKED AT THROUGH A Darwinian lens, the current Canadian television industry is at an evolutionary crossroads. Changes in the ecosystem have resulted in a new species of TV-content provider: the […]