From Susan Clairmont of the Hamilton Spectator:
CHCH TV cancels tonight’s newscast; station future uncertain
CHCH news staff is waiting to find out the fate of their station after being told there will be no 6 o’clock newscast tonight.
An announcement to staff is expected at 4 p.m., by email, sources inside the CH newsroom say. The fear is the station is shutting down or being dramatically reduced. Continue reading.
From CBC News:
Shaw Cable fire log burns with mystery about its tender
“The channel ran 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so he wanted to program something and at the same time allow his employees to take some time off to be with their families on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day,” Salerno said.
The original fireplace on display belonged to one of the show’s local programmers. Continue reading.
From a media release:
Building on the legacy of the Television Bureau of Canada (TVB), thinktv launches today as the organization’s new brand identity reflecting its ongoing evolution, as well as its vision for the future. The distinctive new name and logo speak to the energy and passion the organization brings to its mission – to help advertisers and agencies get the best out of the amazing medium that is television.
thinktv is dedicated to promoting the benefits of television advertising to the marketing community and helping them use the power of television to drive business results. As a resource for advertisers and agencies, thinktv will provide a broad spectrum of services to the marketing community including education, thought-provoking and leading-edge research, as well as tangible insights on collected and curated data.
Television’s effectiveness is unrivalled. It is both the most effective and efficient way to drive business results for brands and the most impactful way to reach consumers:
thinktv’s brand identity is a vibrant new take on the prior name and logo, which represented the company since its inception in 1961. The launch of the new logo and brand identity was developed in collaboration with Frontier, a creative exploration company known for its design driven ideas and idea driven design.
From Cassandra Szklarski of The Canadian Press:
A new era for CBC, hopefully: Things could finally start looking up for the beleaguered public broadcaster in 2016
It’s been a heck of a year for the CBC — a scathing report denounced managers for their handling of the Jian Ghomeshi affair while former anchors Amanda Lang and Evan Solomon faced controversies of their own.
All the while, the CBC continued to grapple with steep budget cuts that slashed news broadcasts, gutted sports and documentary divisions and put for sale signs in front of aging facilities.
But with a more CBC-friendly Liberal government now holding the purse strings, could things finally be looking up for the beleaguered public broadcaster?
Many observers seem to think so. Continue reading.
From Bruce DeMara of the Toronto Star:
Toronto film studio cuts fees in half for women
“The initiative came from years of working with actors and writers and producers, where everyone is sort of trying to get their next shot. We found that the guys were getting ahead of the game so far quicker than the ladies were,†Apostolopoulos said in an interview.
To level the playing field, Apostolopoulos announced in June that any production with a female director or showrunner would get a 50 per cent discount on studio fees at the 70,000-square-foot facility in East York. Continue reading.
