CCR People

John Murphy has been appointed as director of affiliate promotions at CTV Inc. and Kevin Watson as director of advertising. Murphy, who will continue to be based in Montreal, will oversee the promotional efforts at CTV’s 21 local stations across the country. Previously, he was manager of advertising and promotion at CFCF. Based in Toronto, Watson will oversee the scheduling of on-air promotions and third-party advertising for CTV and all its English-language specialty channels. He has worked at CTV for eight years. Kelly Beaton, VP of communications at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, is leaving the organization to take the job of senior policy analyst at the sound recording branch at Canadian Heritage. The CAB announced its new board members for 2003-04 at its annual convention in Quebec City this week. The executive consists of Alain Gourd (joint chair), Paul Robertson (past chair), Rob Braide (chair, radio), Bob Templeton (vice-chair, radio), John Burgis (chair, television), Jay Switzer (vice-chair, television), Peter Miller (chair, specialty and pay), Luc Perreault (vice-chair, specialty and pay), Doug Rutherford (treasurer), Rick Arnish (special delegate representing small markets), Michel Arpin (special delegate), and Glenn O’Farrell (CAB president and CEO). The CAB television board includes Burgis, Switzer, Gourd, Arnish, Elaine Ali, Charlotte Bell, René Bourdages, Pierre Brosseau, Michel Carter, Bryan Ellis, Don Shafer, Marc Simard, Leslie Sole, and Jennifer Strain. The CAB specialty and pay board consists of Miller, Perreault, Serge Bellerose, Shan Chandrasekar, Gilles Desjardins, Sophie Émond, David Errington, Bill Hunt, Catherine MacLeod, Kathleen McNair, Bill Roberts, Mark Rubinstein, Johanne Saint-Laurent, Alain Strati and Bart Yabsley. Wilfrid Blondé has been hired as CFO at the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. He comes to APTN from the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation. Claude Joli-Coeur has been appointed director of business affairs and legal services at the National Film Board of Canada. He will also serve as secretary to the NFB’s board of trustees. From 2000 to 2002, he served as VP of legal and business affairs and secretary of TVA International Inc., and from 1987 to 1995, he was director of business affairs and VP of legal and business affairs at Groupe audiovisual Astral. Sheridan Scott has been named the commissioner of competition at the Competition Bureau. The chief regulatory officer at Bell Canada replaces Konrad von Finckenstein, who was appointed to the bench. Before joining Bell in 1994, she had worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., the CRTC, and clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice Bora Laskin.Jannat Hamid has been appointed as executive director of the ReelWorld Film Festival. The festival runs March 31 to April 4, 2004 in Toronto. Keith Pelley, former president of TSN, has been named the new president and CEO of the Toronto Argonauts football team. Pelley became president of TSN in March 2001. He oversaw all of the network’s day-to-day operations, including programming, production, marketing and the development of staff and talent. Previous to that, he was senior VP, as well as VP and production manager at the network over a period of eight years. In 1995, he joined the Fox Sports Network, becoming the first Canadian to produce NFL football. Dan MacKenzie has been hired as the new senior marketing manger at TSN. He is responsible for the daily marketing activities for TSN, NHL Network and ESPN Classic Canada. Prior to joining TSN, he worked for more than six years as manager of basketball development at NBA Canada. Bruce Rainnie has been named the new host of Prince Edward Island’s weekday 6 o’clock news show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Paul Feuer, former head of the merger notification unit at the Competition Bureau, is joining Ogilvy Renault’s Toronto office as part of its national competition and antitrust law practice. André Bureau, chair of the board of Astral Media Inc., was the recipient of the 2003 Gold Ribbon Award for Broadcast Excellence. He accepted the highest award of private broadcasters at the Canadian Association of Broadcaster’s convention in Quebec City. In memory Former Montreal film commissioner André Lafond passed away on October 22 of a brain tumour at the age of 59. Gilles Décry, a founding member of the Canadian Cable Television Association, died on October 30 at the age of 81. He founded Vidéo Décry in 1954, and was one of the first small cablecos in Quebec to provide new services to local residents. Bob Hall died last month at home of a heart attack at age 73. He was a co-founder of Big R Radio Network, which was based in Salmon Arm BC. He sold his radio interests to start Sun Country Cablevision in 1984.

CCR People

Broadcast | November 14, 2003

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