The Canada Media Fund has given 21 English and 13 French broadcasters performance envelope allocations for 2013-2014 fiscal, the organization said Friday.
English broadcasters received $173.3 million in performance envelope funds, while French broadcasters received $85.7 million. The CMF in March announced that its program budget for fiscal 2013-2014 is $360.7 million.
The performance envelope allocations for the latest fiscal were calculated using the factor weights the CMF announced in December. The five weighted factors include two aspects of audience success (total hours tuned and original first run), historic performance, regional production licenses and digital media investment.
The CBC received the lion’s share of funding at around $58.1 million. Bell Media received almost $32.6 million, and Shaw Media received $27.3 million. Corus Entertainment received $21.9 million in coin, while Rogers Media received $9.7 million and Astral Media received $5.6 million. And APTN received just over $4 million.
In French, Radio-Canada received $32.7 million, while Groupe TVA received almost $22.1 million. Astral’s French-language group received $16.4 million in coin, and Télé-Québec received almost $8 million.
The full performance envelope allocations can be found on the CMF’s website.
The CMF also handed out development fund allocations, used to support broadcaster development projects and not allocated to specific genres. The envelopes were calculated using two factor weights: 50% historic performance in development and 50% share of performance envelopes in each linguistic market.
In development funds, CBC received nearly $2.8 million, while Bell Media received $1.5 million and Shaw Media received nearly $1.1 million. In French, Radio-Canada received nearly $1.5 million in development funding, while Groupe TVA received $506,244.
In all, the CMF doled out $7.68 million to English-language broadcasters in development envelope funding, while French broadcasters received nearly $2.9 million.
The total development allocations can be found here.