A new feature on the show’s video app allows users to participate in social chatter and themed content.
Viewers will be able to test their smarts through social media in the lead-up to the March 18 premiere, and play along with the show challenges during the broadcast.
Series co-creator Charles Ketchabaw of Toronto-based Ready, Set, Panic talks to Playback Daily about how podcasts and customer complaints are a strategy to create content and build buzz.
Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation director Michael Levine tells Playback Daily about the late entertainment journalist’s mandate to create a star system in Canada.
3 o’clock.tv’s Jay Ferguson tells Playback Daily how product integration is a big part of solving the monetization puzzle for web dramas.
The CBC Music platform features radio stations, genre-based music communities and radio streams, and is available online and through the iTunes app store for iPad, iPhone and iTouch.
The phone giant continues to battle Shaw Communications in western Canada for triple-play phone, TV and internet customers.
Toronto’s Sinking Ship has granted rights to the U.S. mediaco to develop interactive e-books and storybooks in addition to story-based apps based on the popular kids series.
Canadian actors, directors, producers and screenwriters: “The principles of the Broadcasting Act continue to be sound but, with this decision, their application remains inconsistent.”
An appeal of a lower court ruling has been dismissed as the high court deems internet service providers “content-neutral,” and therefore not subject to the Broadcasting Act.