CBC/Radio-Canada | Corporate News |
| CBC/Radio-Canada is disappointed in the CRTC's decision today not to grant conventional broadcasters access to subscription revenues, a move that is certain to result in the continued erosion of quality original Canadian television programming available on Canadian airwaves. ... |
| New media is neither displacing traditional media, nor will it solve the financial difficulties facing conventional broadcasters. This is the message CBC/Radio-Canada has for the CRTC as the regulator assesses New Media.... |
| The Government's decision late yesterday not to endorse the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage's report on CBC/Radio-Canada is a missed opportunity to enhance the accountability and transparency of Canada's national public broadcaster.... |
| CBC/Radio-Canada is disappointed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's report on the Canadian Television Fund (CTF).... |
| Since becoming President and CEO, I have spent a lot of time listening, reflecting on written materials and ideas, talking with our employees and meeting with various stakeholders who work in our broadcasting environment, and focusing on the issues that are currently confronting your national public broadcaster. ... |
| For the second year in a row, Galaxie, CBC/Radio-Canada's continuous music network, will be teaming up with Vidéotron and the FrancoFolies de Montréal festival to launch the Galaxie-FrancoFolies de Montréal music channel.... |
| Today, CBC/Radio-Canada's President and CEO, Hubert T. Lacroix, sent a letter to the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Canada, thanking him for his assistance in making CBC.ca and Radio-Canada.ca accessible in China. ... |
| CBC/Radio-Canada proposes that the broadcasting system be revamped to provide higher quality television services at a reduced cost to Canadians. ... |
| At the Junos this weekend, CBC Records celebrated another win for its acclaimed album featuring Canadian violinist James Ehnes, bringing to three the awards for this album.... |
| Canada's national public broadcaster welcomes CBC/Radio-Canada: Defining Distinctiveness in the Changing Media Landscape, the report issued this morning by the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.... |
| CBC/Radio-Canada has received Board approval to proceed with the sale of international distribution rights and assets currently managed by CBC's international sales division to Fireworks International, President and CEO Hubert T. Lacroix announced today.... |
| Nominations for the 50th Grammy Awards were announced yesterday in Santa Monica, California, and CBC Records recordings are featured in two categories.... |
| The challenges that public broadcasters must deal with in the 21st Century, particularly in television, are as many as they are momentous. As much in Canada as anywhere else.... |
| As you know from our submission, we believe that in this review, the Commission should be particularly mindful of the national public broadcaster's involvement in providing a diversity of voices and thereby contributing to a healthy broadcasting system.... |
| Today, as Galaxie turns 10 years old, more than six million households in Canada are enjoying the music offered through CBC/Radio-Canada's Continuous Music Network.... |
| CBC/Radio-Canada, in cooperation with multiple partners, recently concluded a successful mobile broadcast multimedia field trial using "T-DMB" technology in the Greater Montreal area. These trials could eventually lead to live digital TV and digital radio broadcasts on cellular phones.... |
| The Canadian army informed Radio-Canada management that the armoured vehicle in which our correspondent Patrice Roy and his camera operator/editor Charles Dubois were travelling was heavily damaged after hitting a roadside bomb west of Kandahar.... |
| Radio-Canada Executive Vice-President Sylvain Lafrance will receive the insignia of Knight of the Legion of Honour on Friday, July 6. Daniel Jouanneau, the French Ambassador to Canada, will award the insignia to Mr. Lafrance on behalf of the President of the French Republic at a ceremony in Ottawa.... |
| Stable funding ensures that the people at the Corporation can work to provide the programming that will inform, educate and entertain Canadians. We have the talent with the creative minds to do that and more.... |
| As a result of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) new approach for Canadian conventional television, it is a great day for broadcasters airing U.S. programming, but the future of Canadian programming is much less promising.
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BBC News | World | UK Edition |
| Beijing says its employment outlook is "grim", amid concerns of increasing social unrest caused by economic problems.... |
| The International Criminal Court prosecutor seeks the arrest of Darfur rebel commanders for killing peacekeepers.... |
| Pakistan summons the US ambassador to protest at a deadly US missile attack deep inside Pakistan territory.... |
| Somali pirates who hijacked a Saudi oil tanker are reported to have demanded a $25m ransom within 10 days.... |
| EU ministers agree to reform farm policy by moving more subsidies away from production and liberalising the dairy market.... |
| A fire breaks out at Berlin's Tegel airport, forcing the authorities to divert flights from the German capital, officials say.... |
| The International Monetary Fund approves a $2.1bn (£1.4bn) loan for Iceland, after its banking system collapsed in October.... |
| An explosion at the site of an anti-government demonstration in Bangkok kills one protester and wounds more than 20.... |
| South Korean activists send thousands of propaganda leaflets into North Korea, amid fury in Pyongyang.... |
| The Pentagon is embroiled in a row after releasing a digitally altered photo of a woman general.... |
| The Pied Piper's services might be needed again in Hamelin, northern Germany, as the town's famous rats have returned.... |
| India take a 3-0 lead in the one-day series with a 16-run Duckworth-Lewis win over a much-improved England side in Kanpur.... |
| Michael Clarke saves Australia from total collapse with 98 as they are bowled out for 214 in the first Test against New Zealand.... |
| Gazans report worst ever living conditions ... |
| Serbia's iconic car finally runs out of road... |
| Icy swims numb the pain of Iceland's financial woes... |
| Why fishermen are letting cod slip the net... |
| Peru hitches its wagon to China's economic motor ... |
| Zimbabwe's political parties will hold more power-sharing talks next week in South Africa, state media reports.... |
| The UN chief ask Sudan's government and Darfur rebels to refrain from attacking each other after reports of fighting.... |
| US environmentalists accuse President Bush of trying to rush through changes to the Endangered Species Act.... |
| Ten Brazilian government and airline officials are blamed for the country's worst air crash, in an official report.... |
| Hours after Australian ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks makes a plea for greater freedoms, police grant his wish.... |
| China plans to build oil and gas pipelines into Burma, amid ambitious plans to increase energy supplies.... |
| European and Asian markets fall sharply amid growing concerns that the world economy will enter a protracted slump.... |
| The British Library is among more than 1,000 cultural groups contributing to a European online library.... |
| The Palestinian Authority has placed a full-page advert in Israel's Hebrew newspapers to promote an Arab peace plan.... |
| Yemen faces economic and political turmoil as its oil runs out, with security implications for the whole region, a report says. ... |
| An anti-piracy group welcomes an Indian navy warship's destruction of a suspected Somali pirate vessel in the Gulf of Aden.... |
| Sri Lankan troops have captured the first line of defence of Tamil Tiger rebels on the Jaffna peninsula, the army says.... |
| Paul Martin recently visited Gaza, where he found opinions divided and some people keen for hostilities to resume.... |
| British field geologist Dr John Murray has spent a lifetime mapping the changing contours of Mount Etna... |
| Have you got a good story? BBC News wants to hear from you.... |
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