CBC/Radio-Canada | Corporate News |
| 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 |
| White House hopeful Barack Obama is to make a keynote speech in Berlin on how he sees future relations with Europe.... |
| Libya's state shipping company says it has halted oil shipments to Switzerland in protest over the arrest of Muammar Gaddafi's son.... |
| The Arctic is estimated to hold some 90bn barrels of oil, according to data from the US Geological Survey.... |
| The US confirms plans to allocate $230m of military funding to upgrade Pakistan's fleet of F-16 fighter jets.... |
| Zimbabwe's ruling and opposition parties begin power-sharing talks in South Africa, officials say.... |
| Officials investigating Bosnian Serb ex-leader Radovan Karadzic vow to track down those who aided his false identity.... |
| A nuclear watchdog in France expresses its concern after a series of recent incidents at nuclear power plants.... |
| DNA tests in Guatemala prove for the first time a child put up for adoption in the state system had been stolen.... |
| The director of a top US cancer research institute warns thousands of staff of possible risks from mobile phone use.... |
| A judge in New Zealand makes Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii a ward of court so she can change her name.... |
| Moscow tops the league of the most expensive cities to live in for expatriates, followed by Tokyo and London.... |
| The International Olympic Committee bans Iraq from competing at this summer's Games because of political interference.... |
| September's ICC Champions Trophy will remain in Pakistan after a review into safety and security in the country.... |
| Karadzic trial will be chance to get over Milosevic debacle... |
| Palestinian workers under pressure after digger attack... |
| Anti-terrorist advice from the Chinese government... |
| US scales down its military 'surge' in Iraq... |
| Lebanese Olympic shooter is no stranger to gunfire... |
| Millions are in need of food aid in drought-hit Ethiopia... |
| More than 14m in the Horn of Africa need food aid because of drought and high prices.... |
| At least 12 people are killed in Nigeria's main city, Lagos, as a petrol tanker bursts into flames.... |
| Three of the world's top carmakers unveil plans to help them survive as the industry faces slumping demand.... |
| The US State Department turns down a request by a Syrian delegation to meet a top US official despite initially saying it would happen.... |
| The pilot of an Indonesian Garuda airliner that crashed last year, killing 21 people, goes on trial charged with negligence.... |
| Residents in northern Japan are clearing up after a strong - but luckily deep - earthquake struck early on Thursday.... |
| Serbia says it will reinstate ambassadors withdrawn from EU states that supported Kosovo's independence.... |
| The European Union issues its list of airlines who cannot travel within the EU because of fears over their safety record.... |
| A UK parliamentary committee calls for dialogue with Hamas, as the UN says poverty has reached a new high in Gaza.... |
| Iraq's president says he will not approve a draft provincial election law adopted by MPs despite a Kurdish walkout. ... |
| At least five people are killed in a blast caused by suspected militants in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say.... |
| Pakistan's army rescues two Italian mountaineers stranded for 10 days on Nanga Parbat - one of the deadliest Himalayan peaks.... |
| Barbara Plett highlights the complicated relationship between "war on terror" allies Pakistan and the US.... |
| Duncan Kennedy reports on efforts to find the corpses of Mexico's 'disappeared' in the 1970s and 80s.... |
| What do you want the world to talk about?... |
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