Canada's public broadcaster is cutting 10 per cent of its workforce and slashing some programming to deal with a $125 million budget shortfall.
CBC/Radio-Canada made the announcement Monday in a press release, adding that 600 union and non-union positions will be cut,...
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada. She will now stay on until Jan. 2, 2025. She has served in the role since July 2018, the first woman to do so in the history of the public broadcaster.
In a news release...
Members of the Senate are calling on the CBC/Radio-Canada to maintain its current broadcasting regime, saying it is necessary for those in areas with limited internet access.
On Feb. 7 CBC...
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CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait doubled down on its request for greater flexibility to spend on...
On the final day of three weeks of CRTC hearings into CBC/Radio-Canada's...
On the final day of the first week of CBC/Radio-Canada's license renewal hearing before the CRTC, CBC executives Friday defended the broadcaster’s branded content initiative Tandem, pointing to what they called "guardrails" put in place after the initiative was put on a...
The COVID-19 pandemic dropped CBC/Radio-Canada’s revenues by 11 per cent,...
Impatient with the progress of a month-old Part 1...
Canada’s largest broadcasters have committed to making the use of a Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) hiring database a prerequisite to giving original productions the green light. The broadcasters are...
CBC/Radio-Canada has temporarily suspended its English-language local TV newscasts in all locations bar the North, as it opts to consolidate programming into one national news program during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a...
OTTAWA — The spectre of past Conservative government cuts to...
The Shaw Rocket Fund wants CBC/Radio-Canada to expand its focus on children’s content to reflect a broader age range and is asking for new communications legislation to ensure it has the funding...
Marco Dubé will take over the vice-president of people and culture position at CBC/Radio-Canada when...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s former chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will be CBC/Radio-Canada’s new executive vice-president of CBC.
Williams, who retired from Corus last year, will start the Toronto-based job on May 1, CBC said in a press release Wednesday.
Michel Bissonnette,...
Former CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix has joined the business law firm Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP as strategic counsel in its Montreal office, according to a press release from Blakes Monday.
"The experience that Hubert has acquired in recent years,...
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s president Catherine Tait compared Netflix Inc.’s worldwide presence to...
Daniel Boudreau, previously vice-president of TVA productions, operations and technology, is leaving the Quebecor Inc. broadcasting division to become executive vice-president of media technology and infrastructure services at...
Michel Bissonnette, the executive vice-president of Radio-Canada, has been named interim head of CBC,...
CBC/Radio-Canada’s executive vice-president of English-language services, Heather Conway, is leaving the public broadcaster next month, the Crown corporation announced...
CBC/Radio-Canada has named Jack Nagler its new English services ombudsman.
Nagler, who is currently CBC’s senior director of journalism, replaces Esther Enkin in the role.
“Our ombudsperson helps demonstrate the importance that we place on ensuring accuracy, integrity, balance, impartiality and fairness in our journalism,” CBC president and CEO Catherine Tait said in a press release Thursday.
“Jack’s experience and deep commitment to journalistic ethics make him the perfect person to uphold our commitment...
Luce Julien, a 23-year veteran of CBC/Radio-Canada, will become...
OTTAWA — Catherine Tait’s appointment as head of CBC/Radio-Canada is...