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TV
Renewals round-up: Bull riders, cops and singing Canadians
Hell on Hooves, Call Me Fitz, Rookie Blue, Canada Sings and Come Dine with Me Canada will return with new seasons.
Shaw does $20 million deal for TV stakes in Mystery and The Cave
The decision gives the broadcaster full control of the English-language specialty channels.
How to monetize digital content by pushing pleasure buttons
Innovation guru Alexander Manu told the Playback Summit that content producers need to encourage play in behavior spaces, much as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter already have.
Reality TV trend has legs: Playback Summit
Program decision makers say “ingredient x” – a hard-to-pin down variable – is key to achieving a format’s rating success.
Buck Productions grabs Canadian format rights to Teenage Boss
The indie producer’s owner and exec producer Sean Buckley talks to Playback about putting a Canuck spin on the Norwegian format.
CRTC renews TVA Group, Astral Media French-language TV licences
The renewals come with more regulatory flexibility, including allowing Astral to redistribute its programming dollars between its English and French TV services, regardless of language, to meet its Cancon spending obligations.
B.C. producers urge province to follow Ontario to stay competitive
A consortium, including the Canadian Media Production Association, urged Victoria to develop a creative clusters strategy overseen by an umbrella agency like the Ontario Media Development Corp. to sustain growth in a converged digital world.
Unleashing the dragons
Ted Boyd, Rebecca Shropshire and Stephen Jurisic put project pitches (one pictured here) through their paces at the first annual Playback Summit.
PB Summit: Approach branded entertainment with a consumer focus
Capital C’s Tony Chapman, Starcom Mediavest Group’s Bruce Neve and Bell Media Digital’s Jon Taylor discussed navigating the branded landscape.
Cheryl McKenzie named new anchor at APTN National News
The APTN veteran, who has hosted and produced several of the network’s other news and current affairs shows, takes her post on May 7.
TV network toppers wrestle with industry quandaries
“It’s a strange world to have come off our most popular season,” Kirstine Stewart, executive VP of English Services at the CBC, told Playback Summit delegates of the recent government cuts at the pubcaster.
Rogers’ earnings dips from mobile and cable headwinds
Tough competition in the mobile and cable TV sectors has the media company feeling the heat, judging by its first quarter financial results.
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