The fall season began in earnest the week of Sept. 22 to 28. After some strategic moves by CBS and ABC, CTV faced three serious challenges. Canada’s most-watched TV show–The Big Bang Theory–was temporarily bumped to a new night. CTV’s No. 1 reality show–The Amazing Race–also got moved, as did CTV’s No. 1 imported drama, Grey’s
This week, CHML’s Scott Thompson was shocked–shocked!–to hear that Bell was getting out of the TV news business. Well, that was their threat anyway. Bell’s brain trust, along with other industry weasels leaders, have been in Gatineau, Que., the past week-and-a-half. They’re attending something called “Let’s Talk TV: a Conversation with Canadians.” The CRTC called
Okay, this is really last week’s podcast. Hey, even Rob Ford gets time off for bad behaviour every now and then. Last week’s burning issue was how deep the cuts would be at CBC as the public broadcaster went public with its latest five year plan. CHML’s Scott Thompson wanted to know how bad was
CBC has released its statement outlining the public network’s future plans through 2020. You can read the whole deal here. Titled “A space for us all,” the release is very general but boils down to these points: President and CEO Hubert Lacroix wants to make CBC “the public space at the heart of our conversations
One brief word on Thursday night’s Ontario Provincial election coverage. My Facebook news feed or whatever they’re calling it this week is turning purple today with folks objecting to CBC political commentator Robert Fisher describing premier Kathleen Wynne’s sexual orientation as “a lifestyle choice.” People, for goodness sake, cut the dude a break. Mr. Fisher
Turns out Mr. D graduated to a fourth season thanks to Mr. R. As in Rogers. In one of the more surprising revelations at Rogers’ Tuesday upfront, it was learned that the private broadcaster–which got into bed with its skates on in the deal to keep Hockey Night in Canada on CBC for the next
Except for a few Stanley Cup hockey games, the end of the regular TV season went out with a whimper for most broadcasters in Canada. Below is the evidence: MONDAY CBC continued to score with Montreal Canadiens numbers, pulling 3,374,000 with this third round game against the Rangers. CTV got cooking with the premiere of
A quote in the Toronto Star this week grabbed Scott Thompson attention at CHML: “If the toxicity at CBC could be measured, the place would be declared a toxic zone.” Scott wanted to know if Peter Mansbridge’s days are numbered as chief anchor at the public network. An article by Vinay Menon seemed to paint