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Mandate IPF contributions for new VOD service: CFTPA

Câblevision du Nord de Québec Inc. (CNQ) recently requested a licence to add a new VOD service to complement its Fleximo digital cable offering. However, the cableco also asked the CRTC for permission to divert the 5% of gross revenues it must pay to independent Canadian production funds to its community channel instead. Below is an edited version of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association’s objection to CNQ’s request.

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CCR People

CanWest MediaWorks has appointed Troy Reeb to the newly-created position of VP, news operations for Global News and CH News, effective September 1. Responsibilities in the new role will include coordinating all local and national news efforts, providing direction to the cross-Canada team of local news directors, and managing and developing resources across the network on a daily basis. Reeb brings almost 20 years of management and international field experience to the role. He has been the Global News Washington bureau chief since 2004, and previous to that he worked as Global’s parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa. Earlier this year Reeb undertook a volunteer mission to Bangladesh to train journalists on the basics of covering elections and supporting the democratic process.

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BDUs downplay TiVo-EchoStar battle

The battle of the boxes between TiVo Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. rages on south of the border, but Canadian BDUs say they aren’t worried that Alviso CA-based TiVo will look for new targets here.

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CFNY-FM gets another four years, despite Cancon shortfall

Despite falling short of its required Canadian vocal music levels, Corus Entertainment Inc.’s CFNY-FM has had its licence renewed for a four-year period.

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Streamlined approach should free up more resources: CRTC

With the release of Broadcasting Public Notice 2006-103 on August 18, the CRTC announced that it is streamlining its approach to assessing competitiveness between sponsored non-Canadian television services and Canadian pay and specialty services. Essentially, the change puts the onus on existing services to identify competitiveness.

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Discovery Health wins CPE, airtime concessions

Last week, the CRTC approved the Discovery Health Channel’s request to scale back its airtime and Canadian production spending (Broadcasting Decision 2006-384). On the face of it, it’s not good news for producers, but some lent their qualified support to the request.

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Levin’s Ethnic Channels Group hampered by 2004 regulatory changes

It’s been less than two years since the CRTC scrapped the competitiveness test for allowing foreign-owned third-language television services into the country (CCR, Dec. 20/04). But while the new approach has been praised as a win for consumers because it has increased the amount of third-language content available, Canadian broadcaster Ethnic Channels Group has had a hard time adapting.

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