Broadcast - Friday, September 10, 2010 9:18 - 1 Comment
Canada’s media reshaped as Bell swallows up CTV
The media landscape in Canada is being reshaped, with the country’s largest telecoms company Bell taking control of CTV.
The merger of Canada’s largest telecom carrier and the country’s No. 1 broadcaster is the latest in a series of deals heralding a new era of convergence between media companies and the cable and phone giants that distribute their content.
The deal also means that ownership of The Globe is reverting back to the Woodbridge Co. Ltd., the holding company of the Toronto-based Thomson family.
Read Bell’s statement on the deal after the jump:
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Featured - May 15, 2009 11:10 - 1 Comment
Visualisaton of Canwest media ownership in Canada
The CBC’s John Bowman has created a revealing interactive graphic showing what Canwest owns in Canada using IBM’s Many Eyes visualisation tool.
It shows how much of Canada’s media is under the Canwest umbrella in a striking, visual format.
The visualisation is after the break:
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Analysis - Oct 29, 2008 10:48 - 2 Comments
Placing a dollar value on MediaScout
A unique but little-heralded force in Canada’s digital media scene, MediaScout, sent readers a survey asking how much, if anything, they would be willing to pay for the currently free daily news digest. The survey also asked if readers would tolerate advertising embedded in the news analysis that reaches their inboxes.
Like many digital publications, it is trying to work out what people might be willing to pay for.
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Asides - Aug 26, 2009 10:30 - 0 Comments
Global News website relaunch shows promise
Global TV News has relaunched its website with a cleaner and more streamline look and feel.
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The new site has more multimedia features but on first impressions, Global still has some way to go to capitalise on the potential of the internet.
A timeline of the Omar Kadr case is simply a list of dates and information in text.
And Global labels some content by its correspondents as blogs, though it has none of the conventional features of a blog, such as comments or links.
As Global News itself acknowledges, “this is always a work-in-progress, so we welcome your feedback.”
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