There’s nothing like a good party to bring Canadians back in front of their TV screens. The July 1 Canada Day celebration Canada Rocks The Capital drew a combined total of 650,000 viewers Wednesday night (276,000 CBC, 374,000 SRC according to BBM Canada overnight estimates). The bilingual broadcast, which featured Sarah Mclachlan, K’Naan, Mari-Jo Therio
While I’m not exactly living in a pineapple under the sea, I am still up at the very unplugged cottage. So please let me direct your attention to this link to a Canadian Press story I wrote today celebrating the 10th anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants. The cheery yellow sponge is being showcased all month long
Not a happy Canada Day if you are a Canadian broadcaster. A peek at recent ratings show that network numbers have dropped to specialty levels everywhere but at CTV. Some recent examples:CBC’s talent search series Triple Sensation drew just 174,000 Monday night, with only 51,000 in the 25-54-year-old demo. It premiered a week earlier to
My friend Gene Trindl, who passed away four years ago this month at 80, shot more covers for TV Guide than any other photographer–over 200 covers. Gene worked with them all, and as he told me back when we were collaborating on a collection of his celebrity photographs, had a couple of memorable encounters with
This poster was everywhere in the late ’70s when I was a student at the University of Toronto. At St. Mike’s college, it probably was in more dorm rooms than crucifixes. Farrah Fawcett was an icon, and her passing today at 62, following a day or two after the death of Ed McMahon, is another
Blogging from the cozy “Two Chicks” cafe from beautiful downtown Sauble Beach, Ont. Feeding My Family from here for a week so set receptors for summer schedule.Speaking of two chicks, if you are a fan of How I Met Your Mother and was amused, as I have been this past season, at the attempts to
More memories of Ed McMahon are shared on this week’s TV talk on the radio with CHML’s Scott Thompson. There’s also a recap of the BRC event, a peek at that flame-throwing Lady Gaga brattack at the MMVAs and a final solution for those Jon & Katie kids. Listen in here.
As I mentioned off the top of last night’s BRC gala, it had been a while since I had addressed this room. A dozen years, in fact.The Broadcast Research Council, a group which acts as a liaison for Canadian broadcasters and advertisers, have been hosting these annual Fall Preview events for years. This year I