CBC looks ahead with ambitious five year plan
Monday, April 18th, 2011Strategy will make network more Canadian By Eric Volmers, Calgary Herald April 8, 2011 The head of CBC/Radio Canada says the public broadcaster is moving ahead with its plan to increase local and regional news, enhance its digital platforms and generally make the CBC more Canadian as part of a five-year strategy dubbed 2015: Everyone, [...]
CBC honcho grilled over dismal access to information record
Monday, March 28th, 2011By Brian Lilley, Parliamentary Bureau OTTAWA – CBC’s top executive was grilled by MPs Monday over his organization’s dismal record and failing grade for handling of access to information requests. Two weeks ago the state broadcaster was handed an F in a special report on the access system by federal information commissioner Suzanne Legault. CBC [...]
Government of Canada renews investment in CBC/Radio-Canada
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011OTTAWA, March 22 OTTAWA, March 22 /CNW/ – CBC/Radio-Canada is pleased to see that in the 2011-2012 Federal Budget tabled today, the Government of Canada announced that the investment of $60 million in funding that CBC/Radio-Canada been receiving since 2001 for Canadian programming initiatives has been renewed for another year. “This is great news for Canadians [...]
CBC shuffles senior management, again
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011CBC rearranges executive suite to face down competition from CTV and Global Television. TORONTO – There’s more top management shuffling at the CBC post-Richard Stursberg. Christine Wilson, executive director for CBC network programming, who stepped in as acting general manager while the public broadcaster late last year looked for Stursberg’s permanent replacement as head of [...]
CBC bets regional future on the web
Monday, March 7th, 2011By Andrea Nemetz, Entertainment Reporter In his fourth year as president and CEO of CBC/Radio Canada, Hubert Lacroix has a lot on his plate. The Montreal-born lawyer talks about the future of the CBC in the different regions, the importance of sports broadcasting and where public radio fits in the national fabric moving forward. Q: [...]
Look to budget for government policy on CBC funding, Moore says
Thursday, February 17th, 2011By Karen Fournier OTTAWA—The Conservative government will make its policy clear on multi-year funding for the CBC in the upcoming federal budget, Heritage Minister James Moore told the House heritage committee Wednesday. “I understand the concern, I understand the needs, I understand the request and … You’ll see the politics and the policy of the [...]
Moore says ‘wait for budget’ on CBC funding
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011Heritage Minister James Moore refused to give details about CBC’s funding allocation for coming years when he appeared before the Commons heritage committee on Wednesday. CBC president Hubert Lacroix spoke to the committee last week about the difficulty in planning when $60 million of the public broadcaster’s annual budget is up for review every year. [...]
Heritage minister rips CBC for failing to disclose docs
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011By Althia Raj, Parliamentary Bureau OTTAWA — CBC should abide by the law and disclose expense reports QMI Agency and others have requested, the heritage minister says. “This is taxpayer’s money. And as a Crown corporation, the CBC is accountable to Parliament and, yes, especially, to taxpayers,” James Moore told MPs on the Commons’ heritage [...]
CBC Righting the Ship? The last 5 years and the next 5
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011By Justin Beach, February 2, 2011 Way back in 2005 I was fortunate enough to get a short gig at the CBC just in time to be part of the CBC lockout. Although it was a dark time for the Ceeb and everyone’s focus was on getting back to work I can still say “fortunate [...]
CBC’s back-to-basics plan to save itself
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011By John Doyle, The Globe and Mail Well, lookee here – the CBC just woke up and recalled that it is, in fact, a public broadcaster. Tuesday’s announcement of a five-year strategy plan, called Everyone, Every way, is, essentially, CBC president Hubert Lacroix’s life-saving, interventionist plan for the corporation. It is also, at last, the [...]
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