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COVER ILLUSTRATION The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television has named its Canadian Screen Awards Nominees for 2016. A complete list is available online, at academy.ca and broadcastermagazine.com.

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The Proof of the Pudding is in the Data

BY LEE RICKWOOD

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n its first rebranding since it was founded in 1961, thinktv is both the new name and the call to action for what was called the Television Bureau of Canada (TVB).

As the media world evolves and new ad strategies emerge, so too thinktv is changing to better reflect the industry it serves.

Less than a year after hiring a new president, the organization has a new name and more important developments are to come.

Catherine MacLeod was named president in December, and she brought a breadth of media and leadership experience to (what was then) the TVB. She came in from Bell Media, where as Senior Vice-President, Specialty Channels and Bell Media Production, she was responsible for the brand and programming strategies across all of the company’s non-sports specialty television and digital assets. She also was responsible for in-house production and original digital video content.

MacLeod had also served Bell as Vice-President, Business and Legal Affairs, providing business and legal support for the acquisition and creation of specialty programming, music-related content and in-house productions.

Her plate is just as loaded at thinktv, and with the rebrand comes the re-positioning of the organization in the context of a complicated and complex media landscape.

“We operate in a world that is considerably different from the one in which the TVB was established,” MacLeod explained in correspondence with Broadcaster Magazine. “Naturally, our focus has shifted. We know that TV works but in a world that almost singularly focused on data, we need to share the unequivocal proof of its unparalleled effectiveness, on its own and as a turbo booster for other media platforms. We are a ‘TV

and’ organization; not a ‘TV or’ organization.”

So with the shift in focus came the rebrand.

“Our decision to rebrand was not made lightly, and we went through a lengthy process to get to the new brand,” MacLeod described. “TVB was a great name and was an excellent representation of the organization for a long time. Over the last few years, the television industry has changed dramatically, and our concern was that the brand was stuck in neutral. We are focused on being significantly more relevant to agencies and advertisers, so a fresh brand that would indicate that shift and breathe new life into the organization felt appropriate.”

Working with the Toronto-based branding, communication and design company Frontier to develop the new brand and supporting creative elements, the need to reflect a belief in the power of television was paramount.

“We want agencies and advertisers to be thinking about television. It is simply the most effective advertising medium there is to drive business results and what’s more, television boosts the performance of all of the other elements of a media plan. When an advertiser thinks about the media mix that will most effectively move products off shelves, they need to think about television as being at the heart of that mix.”

The not-for-profit marketing organization works on behalf of Canadian broadcasters to communicate to the advertising industry the benefit, value and effectiveness of advertising across all media platforms, with TV as the focal point, as MacLeod explained.

“We are here to help advertisers and agencies get the most out of the fantastic medium that is television and part of that includes supporting advertisers and agencies with ongoing proof

“TV is one of the most effective

investments a brand can make,

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“Television remains at the heart of popular culture and advertising effectiveness,” said Errol Da-Ré, Chairman of the Board of thethen TVB and Senior Vice President Sales, Shaw Media, when Catherine MacLeod was hired. “With Catherine’s strategic vision and business acumen, she is the ideal leader for the organization today, and a strong ambassador for the television industry. We couldn’t be more pleased to have her on board.”

of television’s effectiveness” (through research, education or training sessions).

MacLeod added that thinktv wants to lower the barriers for entry to television, as reflected in its vision for Telecaster and a new commercial clearance process.

“For the last few months, we have been examining the efficiency of the Telecaster services,” she explained. “We have been fortunate to have the collaboration of our partners – agencies, the ASC, distributors, and broadcasters – each of whom has provided terrific insights about how we can make the Telecaster process better for all users. “ MacLeod noted that with initial reviews nearing completion, the goal is to roll out a new system early in the fall.

Likewise, although some members of the organization’s research team were recently let go, research remains a critical part of the operation, and newly hired Kathy Gardner will have new plans to roll out soon, as well.

No changes are anticipated to the Board of Directors, and by-laws direct what can and cannot be done with respect to the Board’s composition.

Nevertheless, thinktv is considering the introduction of nonvoting members of the Board, MacLeod described, to represent groups like agencies and advertisers. “We believe in having many voices around the table and would hope that any new

members would also benefit from being more involved with the organization. “ Perhaps new voices will echo the observation that, while some global digital brands have done an exceptional job of marketing themselves to advertisers and agencies, the pendulum seems to be swinging back to television, and enthusiasm for its size, scope and reach.

“There is no doubt that digital offers extraordinary opportunities for advertisers and all of our broadcast members have excellent products in the digital space, MacLeod observed.

“What we see, however, is that an advertiser’s digital spend should not be taken out of their TV budget. All elements of digital media, most particularly search, perform much better when combined with television. Advertisers get the best out of search when they feed it with the interest and awareness that is created by television.

“Numerous econometric studies clearly demonstrate the value and effectiveness of television as an advertising medium.

What is exciting is the increasingly sophisticated research and data methodologies that continue to prove TV’s ROI in different ways and with even more accuracy.”

Sharing those insights will get the advertising and marketing community to think TV. BC

“All elements of digital media ... perform much better when combined with television.”

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Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television Names Canadian Screen Awards Nominees

The 2016 Canadian Screen Awards nominees were introduced at simultaneous press conferences in Toronto and Montreal. A long-standing friend of the Academy, Martin Short hosted the Canadian Screen Awards in 2013 and 2014. He has received five nominations and won the Academy’s Earle Grey Award for acting in 1995. This year, he’s being presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award | Academy Special Award.

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Nominations in 132 categories of the 2016 Canadian Screen Awards were announced during simultaneous press conferences in Toronto and Montreal and via live webcast.

The Academy’s annual awards show celebrates the best in film, television and digital media (24 film, 101 television and seven digital media nominees were announced; complete listings can be found on the Academy’s newly designed fanzone.academy.ca web portal).

“Congratulations to each and every nominee,” said Helga Stephenson, CEO, Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. “They stand out in a field where the bar is already set high and continues to rise. That’s one sign of a vibrant screen-based industry in Canada.”

This year, a new team headed by executive producer Barry Avrich will handle production duties for the 2-hour CBC broadcast gala with FRANK Content, a Toronto-based production company.

Already announced are some rather special and unique award winners: comedy icon Martin Short, who will be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the RouterBased Production Audio Design used for the Much Music 6

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Video Awards, winner of the Academy’s Outstanding Technical Achievement Award.

Short’s remarkable career in movies, television shows and on stage is recalled in his 2014 memoir, I Must Say: My Life As A Humble Comedy Legend.

“Marty is a national treasure and we are thrilled to add him to our Canadian Mount Rushmore of comedy,” said Avrich.

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“Its skilled innovators,” noted Academy Chair Martin Katz, “raised the bar on audio technology to boost excitement for the audience.”

The Canadian Screen Awards presentation gala caps off a week of events as part of the Academy’s Canadian Screen Week; l it will air live from the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto Sunday night, March 13 on CBC. www.broadcastermagazine.com

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Great Human Odyssey on Tour

Using drones to capture imagery of a shaman character near the Bering Strait.

After its world premiere broadcast on CBC TV’s The Nature of Things, the three-part series The Great Human Odyssey will premiere for U.S. audiences on PBS NOVA. It’s also airing on major public broadcasters in the U.K., throughout Europe, in Asia/Pacific (13 countries including China) and Africa.

Cinematographer Daron Donahue shoots with a 4K camera in the Arctic.

Producer, Director and Host Niobe Thompson of Clearwater Films led the Canadian production crew across five continents for the eye-popping human-origins documentary series, filming with Bajdao free-diving nomads in the Philippines, San Bushmen in the Namibian Kalahari, Chukchi reindeer nomads in Arctic Russia, and Crocodile People in the most remote part of Papua New Guinea.

Recognized for its accomplishments with four Canadian Screen Award nominations, Odyssey also helped break documentary ground with its 4K resolution production strategy, using digital cinema cameras on aerial drones and underwater rigs, and shooting in extreme heat and cold on extended expeditions. Shot over 18 months, cutting-edge techniques helped capture gorgeous footage for the epic nature and anthropology series.

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Highest Civilian Honour for Buttignol services, introduced new programRudy Buttignol is appointed to the ming and content and increased audiOrder of Canada. ence shares and revenues.

The Order of Canada, one of the Italian-born Buttignol was a succountry’s highest civilian honours, cessful independent filmmaker from recognizes outstanding achievement, the mid-70s through the early 90s, dedication to the community and serwhen he joined the world of public vice to the nation. Buttignol, President broadcasting as the Creative Head of and CEO of British Columbia’s KnowIndependent Proledge Network, is duction for TVOnappointed for his tario. Through his “contributions to vision and influthe growth and ence as commisquality of Canadian sioning editor at documentary filmTVO a generation making.” of documentary Through filmmakers were his work as an encouraged to independent filmproduce truly maker, commisindependent cinsioning editor and ema. Many DOC network execuRudy Buttignol is appointed to the Order of members across tive, Buttignol Canada.

Canada have has always been memories of their collaborations with a fierce advocate and supporter of him at TVO. the Canadian documentary communButtignol is a founding Chair of the ity, the Documentary Organization Documentary Organization of Canada of Canada (DOC) noted in offering and a founder of the Hot Docs Forum. its congratulations. He has been He has served in leadership roles on widely acknowledged for his role in dozens of boards in the film and teleadvancing the creative documentary vision world, including the Vancouver genre in Canada and more recently, International Film Festival, Banff Media for his transformative leadership at Festival, Canadian Media Fund, Hot the Knowledge Network. Under ButDocs International Film Festival and tignol’s leadership, Knowledge has many more. adopted new multi-platform digital The series has a live-recorded symphonic score, composed and conducted by LA-based film composer Darren Fung and recorded with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and ProCoro Canada. It’s being reincarnated on a Canadian-U.S. tour as an 80-minute live performance, in a feast of re-edited images with choral and orchestral accompaniment.

Johnson ‘Goes Public’ Erica Johnson is the new reporter for the CBC News investigative news segment Go Public. Johnson, who is based in Vancouver, will be leaving marketplace.

The investigative news segment that features stories from people who “go public” in a bid for power accountability is featured on all local and national CBC

platforms. Calgary-based reporter Rosa Marchitelli will continue to investigate stories for the segment.

“Erica is a phenomenal investigative journalist,” Jennifer McGuire GM and Editor-in-Chief, CBC News, English Services, said when making the announcement. “These kinds of moves speak to the diversity of talent and programming at CBC News. We’re thrilled for Erica and for CBC Vancouver.”

Johnson joined CBC Television’s prime-time investigative consumer show marketplace as a reporter in 2000, and became a host of the program the following year. She is a fourtime Gemini nominee for best host of a news/information series, and won a Leo Award for best host of an information series. Among other television and radio awards, Johnson has won a Freddie, www.broadcastermagazine.com

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a New York Festival Award, a Golden Sheaf Award, a Gabriel Award, and several RTDNA and Jack Webster Awards.

“My years with marketplace have been an incredible experience,” says Johnson. “I’ve enjoyed being part of such a driven and dedicated team and I’m thrilled to be given the opportunity to continue doing investigative, advocacy journalism with the team at Go Public.”

Johnson began her journalism career in radio in 1987, working at several private radio stations, including CFRB in Toronto, where she reported, hosted and became the first woman at the station to read morning newscasts. Johnson joined the CBC in 1990 as a radio news reporter in Toronto.

In 1993, Johnson moved from radio to CBC Television, helping to launch The Health Show and filing for The National. She then moved from Toronto to Vancouver to be the health reporter for Vancouver’s supper-hour news program and anchor the weekend news.

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INDUSTRY ‘Next-Gen’ Changes at Characters Jennifer Goldhar moved into the role of President at The Characters Talent Agency just before New Year, replacing agency founder Larry Goldhar.

Larry retired from his rep duties after almost 50 years of working as an agent to take on the newly created role of CEO overseeing the organization’s administrative structure. Ryan Goldhar took on Larry’s longstanding client list to ensure a smooth transition for the agency. Additionally, Tyman Stewart has been appointed as President of the agency’s Vancouver office, replacing Leonard Bonnell.

“When we started, there were only four other established agencies,” Larry recalled. “None of them exist today amongst the over 100 agencies that submit performers, producers, directors, writers and technical people. I could not be prouder of the legacy we have created.”

Characters Talent Agency President Jennifer Goldhar

Larry started the company with Lawrie Rotenberg and Mike Scott. With offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, The Characters Talent Agency represents some of Canada’s top actors, directors, voice over talent, producers and production talent; including designers, editors, casting directors and writers.

“Larry built this company with integrity, respect for others and an unparalleled passion for his clients,” said Jennifer Goldhar. “I plan to continue this longstanding tradition and ensure The Characters remains a leader in the industry and an agency actors strive to be a part of.”

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Jennifer has been with The Characters for over 20 years, 18 as an agent.

As President, she will oversee day-today agency business while maintaining her roster of some of the country’s biggest talent, including Jason Priestley, Tatiana Maslany, Donald Sutherland, Zoie Palmer, and Anthony Lemke, among many others.

Jive Launches Operations in the U.S. Canadian boutique public relations and digital marketing firm Jive Communications has opened offices in Los Angeles. The company’s third office will assist Canadian film and entertainment brands looking to expand their presence in the U.S. as well as entice American entertainment and brand clients with its inspired and integrated approach to PR and digital marketing.

Founded in 2009 by consumer brand specialist Almira Bardai and entertainment PR veteran Lindsay Nahmiache, the company has offices in Vancouver and Toronto.

Specializing in film/entertainment and corporate brand PR for regional and national companies, Jive’s multichannel offering includes traditional media relations, social media marketing, community management, influencer engagement, demographic outreach, experiential events and branded content creation.

Jive will continue to provide its complete communications offering to existing Canadian clients including Entertainment One, Telefilm Canada, TELUS, Flight Centre, and Molson Coors, and looks forward to assisting entertainment clients like CineCoup, Buck Productions, Vortex Words + Pictures, The Vancouver International Film Festival, Brightlight Pictures and the Whistler Film Festival launch their brands in the United States. Jive’s US office will be lead by Nahmiache who has relocated to Los Angeles.

iHeartRadio Comes to Canada Bell Media and iHeartMedia are bringing the iHeartRadio brand to Canada in 2016.

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tions in 54 markets across the country. iHeartRadio in Canada will provide a live radio feature, offering listeners access to all of Bell Media’s broadcast and digital-only radio stations across mobile, auto dashes, tablets and smartphones, gaming consoles, wearables and other platforms. The partnership will also bring iHeartRadio-branded events to Canada.

“We are partnering with the fastrising iHeartRadio brand to develop its incredible presence in Canada through our leading platforms,” said Randy Lennox, President, Entertainment Production and Broadcasting, Bell Media.

“We will deliver a digital service that will serve our listeners across the country, providing them with great music, news and sports, as well as relevant and customized content from Bell Media radio and television assets, while providing dynamic and measurable advertising opportunities to our clients.”

“Joining with Bell Media to extend the iHeartRadio brand with Canadians is an exciting moment for us,” said Darren Davis, President of iHeartRadio.

“This partnership allows us to connect with even more music fans and radio listeners and we know Canadians will enjoy the service as much as our listeners in the U.S.” “Partnering with Bell Media and launching iHeartRadio to our neighbours in Canada is an important milestone in further expanding our international footprint,” said Michele Laven, President of Business Development and Partnerships for iHeartMedia. “This new partnership will allow us to work with distribution partners, including auto and consumer electronics, to extend our brand and reach even further.”

Animated Storyboards in Toronto International animatics shop Animated Storyboards has launched a new office in Toronto.

Maria Hanafy will lead the new studio as Managing Director, along with four additional staffers — a Director, Producer, Marketing Associate and Animator/Editor.

“We’re very excited to have a local studio in this unique and talented city,” Hanafy said. “ASB is looking forward to building a creative space where agen-

New Team, New Toronto Studio for Animated Storyboards

cies and brands can test their ideas as they come to life. We’ve built a tight team here and I’m incredibly grateful to be a part of it.”

This marks the 10th office for Animated Storyboards, with current offices running in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, São Paulo, Bangkok, Tel Aviv, Düsseldorf and Shanghai.

The 4,300 square foot Toronto facility includes three edit suites, a state-ofthe-art audio studio, a conference room and a lobby area. The office will closely collaborate with all existing Animated Storyboards offices and its global infrastructure.

Since 2001, Animated Storyboards has developed expertise across audio & casting, creative direction, storyboards & artwork, 3D/2D animation, greenscreen, motion graphics, design, global versioning and editorial.

Founded by veteran commercial director and entrepreneur Ezra Krausz, Animated Storyboards has over 300 employees across those 10 offices; illustrators, designers, directors, producers and 2D and 3D artists working on a wide array of projects entirely in-house, from fully produced 2D and 3D video animations to detailed storyboard artwork.

Hanafy has nearly a decade of experience in production, with a background ranging from the agency to the production company, casting and post production sides of the industry before joining Animated Storyboards in 2013.

Prior to spearheading the Toronto office, she produced projects for clients out of ASB’s NYC and Chicago offices.

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tion and scenic design tool wysiwyg won in the Pre-Production Visualization System category of the 2015 Technology and Engineering Achievement Awards, held during the CES 2016 show.

“We’re immensely proud of this honour and validation of our team’s commitment in continued technical innovation to help with TV and film productions,” enthused Dino Mazza, Product Manager at CAST Software. wysiwyg is used to design and preprogram lighting and motion scenery, to previsualize video projections, LED video walls and lasers, as well as to virtually simulate over 25,000 models of different

production equipment to see how each can perform and behave when interacting in a realistic 3D environment.

“The award is recognition of wysiwyg users who use it as their go-to pre-production lighting tool for projects. They can now rely on a double Emmy Award-winning previsualization tool for spectacular results in their lighting design,” added Gil Densham, President and CEO at CAST Group.

The Toronto-based software and hardware developer celebrated its 20th year in business in 2014, serving core markets in entertainment production, special events and meetings.

New UHD Satellite Platform Global satellite operator SES and Vivicast Media have launched a new Ultra HD channel for North American cable operators, telco’s and their audiences.

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“Now that Ultra HD is becoming reality, we’re very excited about our collaboration with SES, a true innovator in solutions that are accelerating the delivery of Ultra HD to the home,” said Stuart Smitherman, President of Vivicast Media. “Our relationship with SES enables us to offer content producers broad access to the North American marketplace, which will be a key driver in the timely delivery of this new frontier in television content.”

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Sports channel Gol TV, a 24/7 soccer network and an existing customer is the first to have taken the opportunity to transition their HD feed onto Globecast’s new platform. As well as Gol TV, Globecast has signed additional contracts with companies including Revenue Frontier.

Bravo Hits the Catwalk

Judges on the Project Runway franchise include Christian Siriano, Tim Gunn, Hannah Davis, Aya Kanai and Kelly Osbourne from Junior; Alyssa Milano is the host of the All-Star series.

Bravo is now the exclusive Canadian broadcaster for the Project Runway franchise, now in its 14th season with spin-off series including Project Runway, Project Runway All-Stars, and Project Runway Junior.

With its binge viewing options, new episodes and exclusive content, the reality show follows up-and-coming young designers as they try to impress program hosts, knowledge mentors and venerable judging panel that includes the likes of Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, Boy George, Kelly Osbourne, Christian Siriano, Coco Rocha and Aya Kanai. Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman. Bella Thorne, Kesha, Nina Garcia and Zac Posen. Zanna Roberts Rassi.

And First Lady Michelle Obama, who will appear on the Junior franchise this season.

Above and beyond its all-star cast, the long-running TV show has an all-star production team behind it, including Miramax Television, The Weinstein Company, Bunim/Murray Productions, Full Picture Entertainment, and Heidi Klum Productions.

It’s Cold Outside but Hot as Hell on TV and Rubens, all of whom felt “The hottest places in Hell are inspired to create compelling reserved for those who, in times images of Hell. of great moral crisis, maintain Heaven is usually visualtheir neutrality.” — Dante Alighieri ized in less specific ways. It’s VisionTV premiered a new a place of eternal light, peace, Canadian documentary and purity, and happiness. Hell, launched a companion website on the other hand, has been that examines the history of a mapped out in excruciating place that has maintained its grip detail. Paisley also talks to on the human imagination for scholars, writers, and theolocenturies. gians, and to a psychologist Hell: A Survivor’s Guide was who has studied why the conproduced by David Springbett and cept of Hell has had such an Heather MacAndrew of Asterisk Vision TV program host Brian Paisley goes to Hell, Michigan. impact on our lives, and why, Productions; their company was even in secular societies, the idea of Hell can still influence established in 1976 in Toronto, but is now based in Victoria, BC. people’s behaviour.

Moses Znaimer is Executive Producer.

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INDUSTRY Broadcasting Accessibility Fund Approves $723,500 in Project Grants The Broadcasting Accessibility Fund will award $723,500 in grants to seven innovative projects designed to advance accessibility to broadcasting content for Canadians with disabilities. The projects represent the first ever selected by the Board of Directors for grant awards.

“These seven outstanding initiatives fully meet our mandate, by addressing significant gaps in broadcasting accessibility,” said Board of Directors Chair Allister Byrne. “They further represent the types of projects we’ll be looking for in subsequent rounds of funding, as they are characterized by partnerships, transparency and a broad sharing of results.”

“We received a number of exceptionally strong applications,” said the Fund’s CEO/Funding Officer Richard Cavanagh. “Since the inception of the Fund, there has been a strong belief that we would tap into some of the best talent, skills and experience in the field of broadcasting accessibility. The projects approved by our Board clearly demonstrate that this is the case.”

The projects approved by the Board of Directors are: Accessible Media Production Course, Mohawk College – $80,000.

Student journalists will receive mandatory, intensive training in producing content that is accessible across all media platforms.

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• Making CBC Radio Accessible, CBC — $62,000. New speech-to-text conversion technology will be used to post daily transcripts of CBC’s awardwinning radio program, The Current to CBC.ca. The Current reaches some 2.3 million Canadians each week. In addition, one American Sign Language (ASL) interpreted radio documentary will be filmed and posted to CBC.ca each month.

• Tecla Remote, Komodo Open Lab — $77,500. A Tecla switch device will enable users with limited mobility to control a range of media devices using the same controls used to operate wheelchairs.

• Designing Screen Reading Capabilities for the 10-foot User Interface, Rogers Communications — $140,000.

Extensive research on the development of simplified and inclusive mechanisms to assist blind and low vision users to discover and consume video content.

• Radio with a Voice, Vues et Voix — $116,000. Development of a fully accessible web platform for Vues et Voix radio content focusing on disability- and accessibility- related stories and issues in the French language.

• Broadcasting Accessibility Education for Hard of Hearing Canadians, Canadian Hard of Hearing Association — $125,000. An extensive project

to assist hard of hearing Canadians with the accessible features of media devices, designed to build a base of knowledge including the producing of a web-based guide to device accessibility.

Enhanced real-time and post-production captioning for VoiceWriter captioning software, Mediac Systems LLC — $123,000. Focused on updating existing software and developing new in-roads to voice recognition technologies, to improve both real time (live) and post production captioning processes.

“The Fund congratulates the first of its grant recipients and is anxious to work with these visionary leaders in broadcasting accessibility,” said Mr. Cavanagh. “We look forward to announcing our next Call for Letters of Intent, the first step in our application process, early in 2016.”

The Broadcasting Accessibility Fund was established as an independent and impartial funding body supporting innovative projects to increase the accessibility of broadcasting content in Canada. The fund was created as part of the tangible benefits package associated with Bell Canada’s acquisition of CTV. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved its creation together with initial funding of $5.7M.

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Bell, Shaw Partner with Canadian Media Sales

Canadian Media Sales Launches New Website With Tools for U.S. Advertising Agencies Placing Buys in Canada (PRNewsFoto/Canadian Media Sales)

Canadian Media Sales (CMS), the largest U.S. representative of Canadian media properties, launched a new website with tools for U.S. advertising agencies looking to place buys in Canada.

The website (www.canmediasales. com) includes information on the Canadian population, audience profiles, coverage maps, creative guidelines, and more. “Our team has decades of experience navigating the Canadian media landscape, and this website reflects the information our buyers most commonly request,” said Michael Custardo, president of CMS. CMS’s revamped website also features detailed information on the company’s diverse media portfolio, which includes television, radio, digital, and mobile properties in Canada. “We

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proudly represent Canada’s top media properties through our partnerships with Shaw Media and Bell Media,” Custardo added. “Our portfolio has the ability to reach nearly 100% of the Canadian population, and our networks consistently rank in the top 10 across all demos.

“The Canadian media landscape is one that is ever-changing, and buyers count on us to provide up-to-date information as it becomes available,” he continued. “As changes arise in technology, media consumption, and regulations, we will continue to evolve with the industry and share new information with our buyers.

Representing Canadian television, radio, digital and mobile properties, CMS provides information and resour-

ces to help American advertising agencies place targeted buys and reach nearly all of the Canadian population.

The CMS sales team says it helps buyers create and execute effective campaigns, whether through brandsell, integrations, contests, sponsorships, cross-platform solutions, or other creative strategies.

Shaw Media operates Global Television and 19 of the country’s most popular specialty channels, and their online companions; earlier this year, Corus Entertainment agreed to buy Shaw Media from Shaw Communications.

Bell Media is a leading multimedia company with leading assets in television, radio, out-of-home advertising, and digital media.

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Tiger Series Tackles 4K

Tiger Series is an ecosystem of software and hardware products with support for Macintosh, Windows and Linux clients.

With the advent of 4K as a production format and required deliverable, content producers need a new approach to their collaborative production and post pipelines.

Advancements in CPU and GPU technology have brought unprecedented computing power to the desktop, enabling high-resolution colour correction, compositing and editing.

Still, many organizations are hampered with storage products that have inherent sharing limitations and network bottlenecks. These basic setups can’t support high-res playback, and demand manual project management. Workarounds, like duplicating and shuffling

material, require time and more storage, and increase cost, project management headaches and frustration.

Tiger Technology has addressed these issues with the Tiger Series, a suite of advanced, high-performance, yet easy-to-use workflow solutions.

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Dennis Kutchera, a veteran online Avid editor and colourist in Halifax, NS, works with a Tiger Store/AccuSys (ExaSAN) system every day.

“When we moved production to UHD, it became clear that we would need storage with the speed and capacity to handle the larger files sizes, plus be able to move quickly from ingest to conform to colour grading and mastering.”

Kutchera’s team had to balance performance and capacity requirements with budget.

“We looked at the offerings from the usual suppliers of shared storage, but really couldn’t go there. By using Tiger and AccuSys, we got a lot more storage capacity and speed for far less money and the thing has not skipped a beat.

The Avid Bin Locking works as you would expect and managing the system is very simple. We are not IT people and don’t have to be. Tiger support is responsive when you need it, but we really have not had to call on them very often. We have left sneaker-net workflows where they belong - in the past.”

DAV Solutions is the Canadian distribution partner for Tiger, and DAV President Chris Chahley notes, “The Tiger Series is an ecosystem of software and hardware products that seamlessly supports Macintosh, Windows and Linux

clients. Advanced project management tools, full Avid Bin Locking support, integrated backup and archive, and rock solid performance have helped Tiger appliances gain prominence in today’s highly competitive marketplace.

“Our Canadian Tiger customer base ranges from small 2 or 3 person post shops, university film and television programmers, broadcasters, commercial editing and post facilities with dozens of editors and CGI render nodes, to the National Film Board working with uncompressed 4K material,” Chahley says. “Customer satisfaction levels are high.”

Laurie Martel, Operations Director at Triangle Post, a leading 4K shop in Toronto, uses a single node Tiger Serve1 controller and says “The Tiger Serve1 has proven to be a robust and dynamic solution for our 4K shared storage needs. DAV Solutions installed the system, gave us a primer and we were off to the races that afternoon. In a matter of days we were using the system in multiple Avid suites and have had ZERO downtime since the install. The flexibility it has allowed is invaluable and came at an affordable price.”

“The flexibility and scalability of Tiger solutions holds great appeal in post environments worldwide,” adds David Pollock, Director of Sales at Tiger. “A modest initial setup can grow to provide extreme performance as required. We have customers that share in excess of 20 GB per second so they can collaboratively edit, composite and finish UHD, 4K, and now even 8K projects, in real-time.”

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NEW Dual Recording Update for Sony PXW-FS5

New firmware updates for Sony’s PXW-FS5

Updates for Sony’s PXW-FS5 enable dual recording for writing identical content to two SD cards simultaneously. Firmware Version 1.0 also supports simultaneous proxy recording of the main HD or Quad Full HD (QFHD) recording at a lower bit-rate to 720P HD or 640 x 360 pixels. Each proxy recording has the same filename and timecode as the main recording and is stored in different folders on the same SD card.

With Firmware V 1.0, the PXW-FS5 records to Sony or to third-party external recorders via its HDMI, SDI or Composite Video outputs. SDI output is always HD, 10-bit 4:2:2. The HDMI output can be Quad Full HD (QFHD) or HD depending on the camera settings. The bit depth and colour sampling of the HDMI output signal is always 8-bit 4:2:2.

The PXW-FS5 also provides timecode and REC trigger signals via SDI and HDMI to compatible external devices. Using SMPTE RDD18, the PXW-FS5 outputs camera metadata including timecode and REC trigger signals via SDI. For HDMI output, timecode and REC trigger/status use manufacturerspecific data areas, which Sony provides by request.

Firmware Version 1.0 also supports simultaneous internal and external recording of HD. When internally recording HD, the SDI and HD-SDI outputs are active, carrying HD, timecode and REC trigger signals. Compatible external recorders can be set to follow the camera’s timecode and record ON/ OFF commands automatically.

Once updated, the PXW-FS5 can record QFHD to internal storage or to an external recorder, but not to both simultaneously.

Firmware Version 1.1 will implement simultaneous QFHD internal/ external recording, including REC trigger and timecode via the HDMI output, and Please visit our website for details on our 2016 convention, allow simultaneous QFHD internal WABE's Educational Initiatives and to download copies of our recording and QFHD output to an external unit that serves as the monitoring 2015 papers: www.wabe.ca device.

Mark your calendar for Calgary, Alberta A future firmware build will add “FS for our 66th Annual Convention at the Hyatt Regency RAW” recording, the manufacturer reports, including simultaneous recording of video internally (XAVC) plus FS For information please contact: RAW to an external recorder. The OLED Kathy Watson, WABE Office Manager, and VF will remain active regardless of info@wabe.ca. Or call 403-630-4907 the choice of format.

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NEW Rohde & Schwarz Tests HDR

R&S VT-B2363 HDMI RX/TX 600 MHz module for the R&S VTS, R&S VTE and R&S VTC video testers

Rohde & Schwarz has developed a new module that transforms its R&S VTx video tester family into a platform for HDMI 2.0a and HDR testing.

The new module offers generator and analyzer characteristics for data rates of up to 18 Gbit/s as well as functions introduced with the new HDMI standard, such as scrambling. It is backward compatible with HDMI 1.4, and it supports both HDCP 1.4 and HDCP 2.2 and covers real-time protocol testing and compliance testing in line with HDMI CTS 1.4/2.0.

The generator function can be used to edit the Dynamic Range and Mastering InfoFrame specifically for HDR. It displays the enhanced extended display identification data (E-EDID) of the connected sink, including the HDR metadata block. It also permits the playback of customer-specific, uncompressed moving picture sequences. The analyzer unit provides suitable E-EDID and displays the Dynamic Range and Mastering InfoFrame. HDR-CTS tests are available for both the generator and the analyzer.

In addition to protocol tests, users can perform electrical tests on HDMI sources for debugging and precompliance purposes, and also analyze video and audio content.

Wilderness Shoot with Miller Camera Support Director of photography Derek Frankowski of Frankowski Pictures was recently tasked with capturing the natural and inherent beauty of the Saskatchewan’s wilderness on a shoot for Saskatchewan Tourism.

Traveling by both plane and boat into the middle of the Churchill River Basin, deep in the heart of the province, for two trips to shoot commercial spots for Saskatchewan Tourism, Frankowski needed to navigate through the remote and craggy terrain that included forests, marshes, lakes and rivers. Equally important was video equipment and a tripod system that was lightweight and inconspicuous so he’d remain invisible to the wildlife he was filming. His Miller Arrow 25 Solo ENG tripod system allowed him to have an efficient setup to capture the stunning vistas and animal activity that will help bring wildlife Director of Photography Derek Frankowski of and nature aficionados to the region.

Frankowski Pictures “We were trying to film some bald eagles and we set up on this knoll, trying to stay in camouflage. We were able to get the camera low enough to stay hidden,” says Frankowski, adding that he could adjust quickly to new shooting heights and make quick modifications to the tripod.

The Solo tripod was a further asset to Frankowski, particularly when filming in rocky terrain. “I have a six-foot long slider that I use and the Solo legs are really great for that. Before I had these legs, I used to always have a spreader between the legs so you couldn’t put it into really precarious spots. However, with this system I was able to put my slider into these really gnarly, craggy rocks because I can adjust the legs to different lengths. It was actually the perfect tool, because you can manipulate that tripod into absolutely any On location for Saskatchewan Tourism configuration to fit it over really rough terrain.”

Frankowski’s set-up included a RED Dragon camera, as well as an array of Nikon lenses that ranged from a fisheye lens to a long 400 millimetre, easily accommodated by the super fluid head and the range of tension control that’s on the Arrow 25.

Frankowski also works with the Dolly Crane FloatCam, using its motion control features to create precise movements even in challenging conditions in the field.

AudioHero.com Offers SFX, Royalty-Free Music

The Association of Central Canada Broadcast Engineers, Technologists and Technicians Inc.

Toronto-based AudioHero is offering royalty free music and sound effects through its online portal.

Its website opened for business late last year, and now offers various subscriptionbased download service levels with access to more than 200,000 tracks of royalty free music and sound effects. Audio previews are available on the website.

AudioHero.com reports the licensed audio content can be used in all kinds of productions, from a YouTube video to a worldwide broadcast TV program.

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NEW New Transvideo Monitor-Recorders

Transvideo’s New StarliteRF and StargateFHD 7 inch Monitor-Recorders

Transvideo has two new monitor-recorder units for use in many different production, OB and broadcast settings.

The StarliteRF is a 5” 3G-SDI touch screen OLED wireless monitor-recorder that can record dailies in H264 on an SD card.

The small and lightweight unit has a built-in wireless receiver, top-mounted antenna and Sony consumer battery connection. The Titan HD2 wireless system will work with 3 to 5 receivers, with wireless video connectivity is low loss and with no delay. It’s suitable for mounting on Arri’s Wireless Compact Unit WCU-4, and with a range of 200 metres (LOS) it could be used for monitoring and recording aerial shots from drones. It could also serve as a program feed monitor for a Steadicam or other camera rigs.

The new Transvideo StargateFHD is a 3G HD/SD 1920 x 1080 full HD display with a bright 1000 Nits screen luminance, compatible with 4K. The camera output is available without any introduced delay, increasingly important in many shooting situations.

It can record dailies (H264 -MP4/MKV) on SD cards, and has built-in tools: Job-Oriented Views, Focus Helper, Peaking, Markers, 3D LUTS, zoom and tally.

Transvideo has collaborated with ARRI to adapt the Transvideo StarliteHD recorder-monitor to control the ARRI ALEXA Mini and AMIRA cameras: the StarliteHD5 ARRI monitor, with analytical features as well as built-in recording and playback capabilities.

NewTek TriCaster Mini with HD-SDI, HDMI Hardware

New Teranex Mini 12G-SDI Converter Models

New TriCaster Mini offerings from NewTek provide a choice between professional SDI I/O and HDMI. Both solutions have the ability to mix multiple live channels simultaneously, including cameras, graphics, titles and other video sources, and then switch, stream, record and publish the output.

An integrated and NewTek TriCaster Mini Turnkey Production Studio configurable video screen on the side of the system also serves as a monitor for displaying a range of user-selectable content.

Users can webcast programs on a live video stream from the unit, and post clips direct to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Guests on the show can call in from a webcam and be integrated into the program output, and the unit can record the entire program for later on-demand viewing, or it can record all camera footage for post-production and editing purposes.

System configuration options include all essential hardware and storage for 30 hours of HD footage.

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Blackmagic Design has added three new video converter models to its line-up of 15 Teranex Minis, based on the type of conversion required.

Now included are the Teranex Mini 12G-SDI to Quad SDI, which converts 12G-SDI to Quad Link SDI to connect the latest 12G-SDI Ultra HD equipment with Quad Link Ultra HD equipment. This model also allows Ultra HD SDI to be separated into four HD SDI outputs for using regular HD displays for creating video wall style displays.

The Teranex Mini Quad SDI to 12G-SDI converts Quad Link SDI to 12G-SDI so customers can connect Quad Link Ultra HD equipment to the latest 12G-SDI Ultra HD equipment. This model allows equipment that uses four BNC cables to be connected using a single 12G-SDI BNC cable for connecting to routers, switchers, projectors and more.

The Teranex Mini SDI Distribution distributes a single SDI video input to up to eight SDI outputs. This model features the latest multi rate 12G-SDI connections with full SDI re-clocking allowing the converter to automatically switch between all SD, HD and Ultra HD formats up to 2160p60.

This is perfect for distributing a single SDI signal to multiple devices such as monitors, switchers and encoders.

All these new models include support for both Level A and Level B 3G-SDI equipment.

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Curlers Can’t Forget Her Achievements on Ice, on TV

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selling team sweaters. But most he game of curling was of all they had to rely on their introduced into North GP’s and GR’s (generous parents America over two centurand generous relatives)! ies ago by Scottish Regiments Over the years Linda has stationed in Quebec City. My first skipped teams that have won involvement with curling came an impressive list of events leadin 1959 while working at CJQC ing to the Super Bowl of all Quebec City. My two mentors sports: the Winter Olympics, and were the late Cactus Jack Wells Calgary 1988. But I am getting of Winnipeg (father of TSN’s ahead of myself.

John Wells) and Bill Good Sr. of Curling was only invited to Vancouver (father of Bill Good, compete at the 1988 Olympics recent CKNW open line host). as a demonstration sport. CanAt that time Jack and Bill were ada did not select a National two of the most knowledgeable Men’s or Women’s team. Comsportscasters in Canada. They menpetitions were held across Cantored me because the 1959 Macada. Linda’s team consisted of Donald Brier Tankard (now Tim Lindsay Sparkes, Debbie Jones Hortons) was being held in QueWalker, Penny Ryan, Patty Vande bec City. They were there covering and Linda. The team coach was it although neither spoke a word of her husband Al Moore. They French. I sat between them in the entered and won. Then launched media booth and translated, mostly a grueling two-week, cross-Cantheir food and drink orders, while ada tour with Canada’s men’s they helped prepare my freelance team, skipped by Ed Lukowich. telephone reports for several EngDuring the tour her knees lish language radio stations across really began to flare up. There Canada, including CKNW. Back was no way she would let her then the Brier attracted very little knees get her down, they had media attention.

Moore has been part of TSN’s curling broadcast team since 1989, working Fast forward more than 50 alongside acclaimed curling play-by-play voice Vic Rauter. TSN curling analyst worked too hard and come too far to let ailing knees let her and years, and Tim Hortons now Russ Howard, a two-time Brier champion and 2006 Olympic gold medallist, the team down. Physical training attracts as much media attention has been a mainstay in the booth with Moore and Rauter since 2008.

PHOTO CREDIT: TSN was very important. They added and as a Royal visit. former champ Vera Pezer as a Sadly, last season saw one very important media person missing from TSN’s broadcast team. mental trainer. No stone was left unturned.

Can you imagine the excitement and pride she, and her teamAfter 25 years, Linda Moore was not in the TSN booth, nor was she sharing her colourful and informative analysis. A nerve mates felt? Soon they would be showcasing women’s curling for disorder ,which started in 2013 and added to other benign health the entire world to see.

“Dick, it’s hard to explain how wonderful the Olympics were issues which plagued her since her early days as Canada’s leading female curler, has caused her to retire. For 25 years, viewers for me and the team,” she recalled. “Wearing the Maple Leaf of TSN’s curling coverage relied on her because they knew she meant so much, and to be able to play in front of Canadians was so very special. The opening ceremonies were incredible, knew what she was talking about.

Linda began throwing rocks at age 13, the earliest age she was the stadium cheered as we walked in. I cried.”

Sore knees and all Linda led her team, and all of Canada, to permitted to curl at the North Shore Winter Club, North Vancouver. She was a natural. At 15 she was on a team that competed the podium to collect the Olympics first women’s Gold medal. in the Canada Winter games. As she told me, “We didn’t win, but Yes, it was a demonstration sports, but that did not seem to, well, Dick I loved the competition. The Curling club was the centre of dampen the flame.

But later, when during the closing ceremonies the flame was our lives in our late teens…we won a lot of trophies and crests.”

Linda and all of Canada’s female curlers kept banging their extinguished, Moore told me, “I realized that I had other chalheads on the ice ceiling which prevented them from receiving lenges to tackle and that I would be retiring from curling.”

So curling’s loss was TSN viewers gain: for the next 25 years the recognition they so richly deserved. Didn’t they know that curling was a male-only sport? Team sponsorship was almost she was an integral part of the TSN sportscast team, sharing her non-existent. They had to rely on ingenious fundraising, such as insightful analysis and expert commentary.

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Rauter, Moore and Turnbull at Vancouver 2010 PHOTO CREDIT: TSN

When announcing her retirement Mark Milliere, Senior Vice President of Production for TSN, said, “Linda is one of the best analysts to work in curling broadcasting. She has been consistently astute, thoroughly prepared, and understands the mental side of the game better than anyone in the sport.”

Moore had her own tribute and thanks in mind, which she shared at the time: “I want to thank Vic Rauter for being my guide during those years, as well as Russ Howard and Ray Turnbull for sharing the booth with me. Thanks as well to Scott Higgins and all our incredible producers; Andy Bouyoukos and the other talented directors; my colleagues Cathy Gauthier

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Canada’s first Olympic Gold Medal Women’s Curling Team: Lindsay Sparkes, Debbie Jones, Penny Ryan, Patty Vande, Linda Moore PHOTO CREDIT: CANADIAN CURLING ASSOCIATION/CANADIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE

Setting the Stage for the Tournament of Hearts and Tim Hortons > The 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts takes place February 20-28 at Revolution Place in Grande Prairie, AB. The winner of the 2016 Scotties will advance to the 2016 Ford World Women’s Curling Championship in Swift Current, SK. > The 2016 Scotties will mark the 35th consecutive year of Kruger Products’ title sponsorship of the Canadian women’s curling championship, which is among the longest-running partnerships in Canadian sports. > The 2016 Tim Hortons Brier will see the best male curlers competing in the Canadian Men’s Curling Championship, March 5-13 at TD Place in Ottawa. and Bryan Mudryk; and everyone involved with TSN curling. This is a group of talented people who are passionate about sharing the superb skills of curlers with fans, and I have been proud to be a part of the crew for so long. I wish the TSN crew all the best for the coming season.”

Linda Moore, from end to end another Canadian Achiever.

This story was originally posted to SportscasterMagazine.ca.

For 30 years Dick Drew has been reporting Canadian Achievers stories on radio, in syndicated newspaper columns, a best selling book, and in regular contributions for Broadcaster Magazine.

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