CRTC releases two reports on new media
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission’s reports discuss regulatory policy solutions and Canadian broadcasting.
Sears back as biggest radio advertiser this week:
Media Monitors – September 1-7, 2008
Department store mogul Sears is back to the #1 spot, after falling to the #3 spot for the first time last week.
Brilliant: CTV contest giving TV fans vicarious thrills
Launched yesterday to create excitement about the fall sked, ‘Live the Drama’ offers winners such treats as a private dance lesson with a Dancing With the Stars choreographer and the chance to get ‘a corpse makeover’ on the set of CSI.
Metro bows new editorial strategy
The free daily chain is ‘repositioning as a hybrid newspaper,’ adding a stable of well known writers, and increasing focus on magazine-style sections including health, food, style and homes.
New Canadian men’s mag on the way
The Male Perspective will be the third magazine from the publisher of Canadian Architecture & Design and North of 89 when it arrives in January.
Planète Radio orbits into Quebec
RNC Media, which operates 16 radio stations and five television stations in the province, has launched seven new radio stations across four regions.
Dragons returning with new twists
Reality series Dragons’ Den will now sell entrepreneurs’ products online and offer $75,000 to the pitch-person who wins the most viewers’ votes.
RMB Crystal Awards are calling
The awards ceremony acknowledging radio creative – with a $10,000 platinum prize – is now accepting entries.
S-VOX announces media AOR
The multimedia company is bringing The Collective aboard after a year of working together on a project basis.
O’Neil joins Astral Media Radio
The former managing director of OMD Canada is taking on a vice-presidential role at the media company.
Media Experts’ roster expands by two
The media shop is bringing aboard a planning account director as well as a television-buying supervisor.
CBC gives Tudors season two royal treatment
The network is geared up to roll out a lavish promotional campaign for the hit show about King Henry VIII.
CTV, CBC join fall race
Bones caps off a strong week for Global, as CTV readies So You Think You Can Dance Canada and Fringe.
TIFF note: CTV hosts John Lennon tour bus
Young filmmakers from Toronto’s urban neighbourhoods are gaining full access to CTV’s TIFF coverage to craft films in a state-of-the-art mobile recording and production facility that Yoko Ono says her husband would have loved.
TBWAToronto wins credit union biz
The agency won both media and creative AOR status for Hamilton-based bank FirstOntario Credit Union.
- Is GroupM being dismantled? Reports point to rebrand and restructuring
- Some GroupM Canada senior executives have left the agency
- Havas Media Canada makes three senior leadership appointments
- Media leaders concerned ad spend not going to Canadian media
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