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TV/FILM: A bit of a stand-off as it relates to TVviewership: The StatsCan news release ondeclining numbers (a 20-year low in 1999) andthe Nielsen Media Research position that rather

than down, numbers are up (seven minutes a week higherover the same fall period last year). Reacting to the publishedStatsCan story, Canadian Association of BroadcastersPresident/CEO Michael McCabe said the Internet is TV’sprime competition, that programming isn’t a factor, and thatbroadcasters should embrace the Net and use it as a vehiclefor programming. But, says CAB, the StatsCanada study using1999 data provided at least a year earlier by BBM does adisservice to the public. Further, said McCabe, “We need toknow what happened last night, not (what happened) a year ormore ago . . . It is essential that Statistics Canada data ismade more timely and relevant in order to accurately reflectthe reality of the broadcasting industry . . . ” TelevisionBureau President Jim Patterson says people presume thegrowth of new media would be at the expense of TV and aretherefore quick to jump to conclusions when they see thesmallest growth in new media. But if that were the case, whyare so many people looking forward to seeing Friends vs.Survivor or to watching the Super Bowl or the AcademyAwards, and so on. Patterson says Antonia Zerbisias of theToronto Star, said it best: “TV still rules the waves, whilepotholes proliferate on that overly hyped informationhighway”... Meantime, Nielsen Media Research says it’sabout to build a Calgary people meter service that will beup and running by September. Further, it says, the entireprovince of Alberta will be covered by early 2002... Privatebroadcasters are “dinosaurs in panic mode” according toGovernor-General Adrienne Clarkson’s husband, authorJohn Ralston Saul. Speaking to delegates at PublicBroadcasting in a Private Age, an Ottawa conferencesponsored by Carleton University and the Canadian MediaGuild, he said the most difficult problems in broadcasting arebeing faced by private TV and radio around the world, nottaxpayer-funded public broadcasters. “We are in a period ofenormous uncertainty,” he said. “But more a period of greateruncertainty for private broadcasters. Private, as we know it, isin the rapid process of disappearing. You can tell from thedisorder in the private sector -- the disorder of convergenceand the multiplication of channels...” The current obsessionwith convergence, he predicted, is a fashion cycle that will playitself out. “What you're watching in these gigantic mergers isthe last desperate steps as the dinosaurs get bigger, biggerand bigger because they can't feed themselves. So the only

way out is to eat more and more and there will be lesscompetition and everything will be fine. In fact, the bigger theyget the more impossible it becomes for them to survive.” Saulurged CBC to nurture its mandate and provide

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Canadians with the platforms to communicate with oneanother and to deliver content. “Any attempt to make publicbroadcasting like private broadcasting,” he said, “misses thepoint of why the thing exists.” Further, he said publicbroadcasters should stop being obsessed by ratings, which ina multi-channel universe have become increasinglyirrelevant... Meantime, in the speech from the throne Tuesday,Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson read: “CBC helpsconnect Canadians to each other, their history and theircountry.” Further, the Liberal government indicated it willrestore CBC funding (after cuts of about $400-million since1993). The throne speech promised that “the government willincrease its support to help the CBC fulfill its distinct role as apublic broadcaster serving all Canadians”. There are nonumbers yet and the reference was but a paragraph in the 19-page throne speech. Despite the cost-cutting, the broadcasteris still looking at a $30-million shortfall by 2002-2003... TheTVA Group Inc. network in Quebec has been valued at over$1-billion, according to an independent valuation (Ernst &Young) conducted for Quebecor. The assessment was partof Quebecor's submission to the CRTC to transfer the TVAlicences and Groupe Vidéotron to Quebecor Media. Thehearing is set for March 26 in Montreal... CHCH-TV (ONtv)Hamilton is losing the ONtv ID Feb. 12 in favour of a return toits roots. The new ID is “CH” Television and reflects parentGlobal Television’s plans for the station; that it “comes home”to Hamilton, Halton and Niagara... Heads up, the personalvideo recorder (PVR) is about to alter the way Canadianswatch – or don’t watch -- advertising. Here’s how it works.Unlike a VCR, a PVR uses a hard disk. It can be programmedto record a show and, if the viewer chooses, he/she can sitdown to watch the show a few minutes after its scheduled starttime. As one watches on delay, the PVR continues to record.When ads begin, it’s easy to fast-forward through them. TiVoInc., the California company that markets the PVR, offers aservice will, over time, learn a viewer’s preferences and recordprograms it thinks he'll like. While the TiVo PVR isn’t sold inCanada yet, border towns are offering them for sale at$US299 for 20-hours of recording time, and there’s either amonthly fee of $9.95 or a lifetime one-time payment of $199.

Canadian cable and satellite providers are gearing up tolaunch PVR services, either alone or in partnership with TiVoor its competitor ReplayTV Inc. Bell ExpressVu says it plansto introduce a PVR and satellite receiver set-top box as earlyas this summer. Interesting, though, that New York agencyOmnicom Group has formed an alliance with TiVo to explorenew forms of PVR-resistant advertising. Omnicom also backsReplay TV, as do Madison Avenue heavyweights Grey GlobalGroup and The Interpublic Group of Companies Inc... TheTelevision Bureau’s annual sales conference (SAC2001)begins this Sunday in Toronto. Running through Tuesday,delegates will hear from the likes of Chris Lytle (SalesTraining), Brenda Stelmach (Telecaster), DennisDesRosiers, Jeff Osborne, Sandy Robertson, Paul Street,Erwin Ephron, Jack Myers, Gary Greenway, Robin Heisey,and Michael McCabe... Seventy-five years ago last Friday(January 26, 1926), history was made with the world's firstdemonstration of television by Scottish inventor John LogieBaird. His first TV was made with practically no money andincluded a washstand and a tea chest. A biscuit tin housed theprojection lamp and scanning discs were cut from cardboardand cycle lenses, all held together with scrap wood, darningneedles, string and sealing wax.

RADIO: First thing this morning (Thursday), at 12:01a.m., the former CKLG Vancouver (now Corus-ownedCJNW (NW2) Vancouver, launched the city's newestall-news station. The difference is that CKNW

Vancouver and NW2 will offer a one-two combination: A fullservice station working in tandem with an all news one...Corus Entertainment has CRTC approval for acquiring theremaining 70.1% of Metromedia Broadcasting: CKOI-FM/CFQR-FM/CKOO-FM/Info 690/940 News Montreal andCIME-FM St-Jerome... The CRTC issued its report to theGovernor in Council yesterday (Wednesday) on measures toensure that Toronto-area residents get a “range of radioservices reflective of the diversity of their languages andcultures”. It acknowledged that AM/FM scarcity of signalsmight limit licensing of new services but, on the other hand,said “availability of a limited number of additional AM or FM

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frequencies may be technically feasible” in the Greater TorontoArea. Further, said the CRTC in its report, if there are otherapplications for Toronto, priority will go to those who “clearlyreflect the diversity of languages, as well as the multiculturaland multiethnic reality”. As well as frequencies, said the report,cablecos and satellite providers could distribute a greatervariety of specialized audio services. The CRTC said it intendsto hold a public process to develop a regulatory framework...A Canadian Press feature item this week on AM radio saidthere’s still gold in Amplitude Modulation -- despite its pretty-much obsolete transmission technology – thanks to formatssuch as news, talk, kids, sports, ethnic, and religious.According to Toronto communications consultant EricRothschild, it’s niche radio, used for spoken word “that's asinexpensive to do as possible”. And hanging on to AM whileDAB gets its act together may be the field leveller. Some time

over the next decade,owners will be able to turnin both their AM and FMlicences for ones on thenew digital spectrum. ButMichael Caine, who justlaunched his CHWO(AM740) Toronto signal,says he isn’t looking atAM740 as a stop-gapmeasure. Nonetheless, hesaid, “We'll be ready tochange with everybody(else) when it happens”.And the man manybroadcasters know as“Digital Duff”, CHUMGroup Radio VP (andDigital Radio RolloutPresident) Duff Roman,says AM may still play arole even after digitalfrequencies are assigned,particularly on the prairies.He says “those AM signalsreally carry well, and they're a very efficient way to get point tomulti-point stuff out”... The Radio Broadcasters of Vancouverand the Radio Marketing Bureau present Roy Williams (theWizard of Ads) Wednesday, Feb. 14 at the Hilton Metrotown.Contact any Vancouver market radio GSM for tickets orinformation... Bertelsmann Music, the company that runsNapster, says it will charge users a membership feebeginning this year. The Napster Web site has allowed roughly44 million users to easily pass along digitalized music files,most of them copied from CDs. Napster joined withBertelsmann Music to develop a paying service after comingunder pressure from other music giants such as Sony,Warner, Universal and EMI, over the copyright issue.

GENERAL: CHUM's revenues for the quarter endedNov. 30 were $111.1 million, up 10.2% over the sameperiod last year. Operations expenses were up 9.0%to $90.1 million. CHUM had earnings of $8 million, or

69-cents a share, compared to $6.4 million, or 55-cents (forthe same quarter last year). Radio sales were strong, saysCHUM, and the Television side showed overall revenue up10%. While conventional TV revenue was largely unchanged,the specialty side continues to increase on a year-over-yearbasis... Ernst and Young have resigned as auditors of CINARCorp., after management refused to assist in determiningwhether the company's books contain evidence of fraud, illegalacts or related-party transactions. But troubled Cinar says itwill issue unaudited statements this week anyway. Meantime,CINAR has launched legal proceedings against formerhonchos Ronald A. Weinberg and Micheline Charest, andformer CFO Hasanain Panju claiming $28,620,469 as the netbalance owing. CINAR is also claiming an accounting ofcertain profits and other relief... Kinowelt Medien AG of

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Germany, a majorstakeholder in AllianceA t l a n t i sCommunications, isselling $126 million innon-voting shares whilekeeping its voting shares.The German companybought a 20% stake inAlliance Atlantis in1 9 9 9 . . . C a n v i d e oTelevision Sales, WICTelevision Sales, PrimeTV Sales, ConvergenceSales, and InteractiveSa les a l l b e c o m eCanWest Media Sales onMonday, Feb. 5. Newaddress is 250 Yonge St.,Suite 2700, Toronto, ONM5B 2L7 (416/593-6556).

REVOLVING DOOR:In a surprise move,ABC New York Newsman Kevin Newman – oftenPeter Jennings’ fill-in as Anchor on World News

Tonight – is returning to Canada. He, and not Tony Parsons,will anchor Global Television’s new national newscast thisfall. Newman had been with CBC-TV before moving south ofthe border... New GM at CHNS/CHFX Halifax is NancyHilchie. Her most recent position with MaritimeBroadcasting was as Promotions Manager. She’s been withthe stations since 1984... Al MacKay, who’s been the interimGM at C-PAC Ottawa for the past couple of years, is leavingthat post this week. He’ll be reactivating his broadcastconsultancy business. MacKay may be reached at 613/799-3668 or by e-mail at almackay@magma.ca... Frank Stanfordis new ND at CFAX/extreme 107 Victoria. He’ll continue toanchor morning newscasts on the AM station.

LOOKING: ewireless Canada in Toronto is looking fora Sales Representative... Telemedia Radio (West) islooking for Engineers at two B.C. locations... CJCSStratford is looking for an Afternoon

Newscaster/Reporter... And, SILK-FM Kelowna is in a search

for a Traffic Coordinator. See the ads in this edition and, ofcourse, at the Broadcast Dialogue Web site –www.broadcastdialogue.com CLASSIFIED section. Otherjobs we’ve heard about include CJYM Rosetown looking fora Morning Personality.

SUPPLYLINES: Western e-com Inc., a capital poolcompany, says it will acquire all of the issued andoutstanding securities of OMT Technologies Inc.O M T ’ s

(Media Touch) three current directors – Ron Paley, TedPaley and Scott Farr – intend to stand for nomination asDirectors of the Corporation. Ron Paley is a founder of OMTand a controlling shareholder... Washington-based XMSatellite Radio has signed an agreement with MatsushitaCommunication Industrial Corporation of U.S.A. – bestknown as Panasonic – for the design, development,production and marketing of XM-capable radios by Panasonicfor factory installation in new cars and trucks... DielectricCommunications, based in Maine, has signed anagreement to purchase TCI International, Inc. (TCI) ofCalifornia. The deal broadens Dielectric’s productofferings for TV and FM products, and in the HighFrequency and Medium Frequency spectrum... EncodaSystems has launched www.mediapromoz.com, as aresource base for promotional product programs.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The February edition of theBroadcast Dialogue magazine is at the mailing houseand should be arriving in your offices next week. Ourfeature articles this month include a major spread

previewing Canadian Music Week (March 29-April 1) atToronto’s Harbour Castle Westin, with articles from CMWPresident Neill Dixon, Keynote Speaker Jack Trout (authorof Differentiate Or Die), Joint Communications CEO JohnParikhal, Ontario Association of Broadcasters PresidentPaul Larche (CICZ-FM Midland), Ginny Townson Sedik(Radio Marketing Bureau), and CAB President MichaelMcCabe on the Canadian Radio Music Awards. The otherfeature is entitled High Definition Production; coming fasterthan anyone imagined. Amazing the number of calls wereceived telling us they didn’t receive the January edition. Infact, the magazine is published 10-times a year, not 12, andwe double-up for the months of July/August andDecember/January.

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REVOLVING DOOR: Telemedia Radio Inc.’s VP ofSales, Research and Marketing – Mario Cecchini –now has an additional title: Executive VP, OntarioRegion. The added responsibilities are effective

immediately... BCTV Vancouver President Art Reitmayer isnow VP, Special Projects for CanWest GlobalCommunications. He is succeeded in the BCTV position byJack Tomik, Sr. VP, CanWest Media Sales. Tomik will carryboth titles... Edge 102 (CFNY-FM) Toronto Engineer DavidHaydu, after 21 years with the station, is heading back to hisformer employer, CHUM Radio Group. Haydu will take overthe engineering responsibilities for the new sports network. Ashis current boss, Corus Toronto Market Manager JJJohnston says, “David is legendary in Toronto radio not justfor his technical prowess. As one half of Pete and Geets (PeteGriffin & Geets Romo, CHUM-FM 1970-77), the man isfamous and will go down in the annals of radio history.”Haydu’s last day at the Edge is March 2... CBC-TV ReporterTom Kennedy, now based at Quebec City, will becomeCTV’s new London Bureau Chief, effective March 1... (Mr.)Jean Martin has been appointed President/ GM ofRadiomédia (jointly owned by Telemedia Radio andAstral Media) in Montreal. Martin’s appointment iseffective immediately. He has been with Telemedia for 18years in senior capacities... John W. Gill is new VP,Programming for BBC Canada (two new BBC digital channelsto be launched by Alliance Atlantis). Gill moves fromTVOntario in Toronto where he was Director of NetworkScheduling... Gord Haines, who many remember from hissenior positions at Alliance Atlantis, First Choice, and CitytvToronto, has been appointed CEO of Passion Media Inc. inToronto. Passion Media has two digital licenses: PassionTelevision and The Singles Network... CHOK Sarnia 16-year Morning Man Gary Connors has been let go. PD LenSmith is filling-in until a successor is found... FM 98.5(CKWR) Waterloo has Paul Scott as new MorningHost/Sales Coordinator. Scott is ex GSM/Ops Mgr at CKXRSalmon Arm... Chris Johnson has been appointed ChiefStrategist at Vision TV in Toronto. Johnson arrives at VisionTV from Stornoway Productions... Erin Davis, ex of CFOXVancouver, joins Z95 Vancouver as Morning News voice.

SIGN-OFF: Everett Hudson, 86, who worked voluntarilyfor over 50 years at VOWR St. John’s, began there in1946 and held the PD’s post from his first day through tohis retirement. Although in ill health, he was a member of

the VOWR board of directors up to his passing.

LOOKING: Blackburn Radio is looking for an Engineerfor its CHYM-FM Leamington. See the ad (above).Other jobs we’ve heard about include Z95 Vancouverlooking for part-time CHR talent... Jobs from the past

month are at: www.broadcastdialogue.com.

RADIO: Corus Entertainment’s CHML Hamilton,CFPL London, CKDO Oshawa, CKRUPeterborough, CFFX Kingston and CJOY Guelphare about to begin sharing News/Talk programming.

First stations on-board will be CHML Hamilton and CFPLLondon (beginning Monday, Feb.12) with the remaining fourjoining in later this month. Former TV gabber ShirleySolomon, CHML’s Roy Green and CFPL’s Wayne McLeanare in the starting blocks. CHML PD Paul Tipple, by the way,is now responsible for Corus Ontario’s shared programmingstrategy. The official Corus line is that the changes for the AMstations will allow the build-up of existing expertise and free-upof resources. Further, said Corus Radio VP Hal Blackadar,“We are leveraging not only our best program hosts by givingthem bigger audiences, but also our ability to sell advertisingon a cluster of AM stations outside Toronto that will reach325,000 listeners weekly”... The CRTC has given Universityof Toronto station CIUT-FM only a 30-month renewal, miffedabout compliance issues, e.g. maintenance of logger tapesand a shortfall in CanCon levels... Gary Farmer’s AboriginalVoices Radio has won CRTC approval for a network licence.It will be a not-for-profit organization providing formembership, management, operation and programming bymembers of the Aboriginal communities across Canada,broadcasting primarily in English but with regularprogramming in many of Canada's 53 Native languages...Christian Solutions Group Inc., which operated ChristianMusic CFEQ-FM Winnipeg, has – by request – had itsbroadcast licence revoked... In a first for

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the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, a ruling on twosongs played on separate stations. The Bad Touch byBloodhound Gang, aired on CIGL-FM Belleville wasdeemed harmless. The second, played on CIOX-FM Ottawawas rapped. Boyz in the Hood by Dynamite Hack – with lyricsincluding “Gotta get my girl to rock that body” and “I reachedback like a pimp and I slapped the ho” -- violated the CanadianAssociation of Broadcasters’ Code of Ethics and Sex-RolePortrayal Code. Complete decisions may be found on theInternet at: www.cbsc.ca... Hilary Montbourquette ofSteele Communications, St. John’s, has been appointedto the Newfoundland and Labrador board of directors ofThe Children's Wish Foundation... In Halifax, withCHUM’s CJCH moving to the new sports format, populartalker Rick Howe’s program will slide across the hall toNewCap’s CFDR. CHUM and NewCap have a LMA in Halifaxunder the Metro Radio Group banner.

TV/FILM: CTV says it will open five new foreignnews bureaus and spend more money to hire 15specialty journalists. Sr. VP News Kirk LaPointehasn’t determined precise locations but says

they’ve been narrowed down to one in Africa, and in eitherLatin America or Australia, as well as an additional bureau inAsia, Europe and the US... Meantime, CBC is opening fivenew domestic bureaus this year: the BC interior and SouthernOntario included... The RCMP says it plans to file a court briefinto alleged tax fraud at Cinar Corp. with the Crown nextsometime next month seeking criminal charges against fivesuspects. Last week, Cinar launched its own lawsuit: a $28.6-million claim against company founders Micheline Charestand Ronald Weinberg -- along with former CFO HasanainPanju. The RCMP investigation stems from allegations raisedin the House of Commons in October, 1999, that Cinar wasfalsely attributing US scripts to Canadian writers in order tograb millions of dollars in federal and provincial tax credits.Meantime, the Montreal-based animation house says it lost$202.8-million over the past fiscal 18 months. Long-overduefinancial statements were released Friday... The CNNfnfinancial news network is changing its name to CNN Moneyand changing its programming strategy, concentrating onpersonal finance issues when the US markets are closed.CNN Money will continue to cover the financial markets duringthe day... CanWest Global has pulled its advertising from theSun Media newspaper chain, and may do the same at theToronto Star. Instead, CanWest is said to be planning tocross-promote Global Television's lineup almost exclusivelyin its newly acquired Hollinger newspaper chain, whichincludes 50% of The National Post, and on its TV stations...A study by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation inCalifornia shows sexual content on US TV has risen sharplysince 1997 – 68% of shows compared to 56%. That includestalk about sex, flirting, kissing, intimate touching anddepictions of intercourse. Overall, one of every 10 TVprograms is estimated to include a sex scene (reports thestudy).

GENERAL: Seeking comments on policies forcommunity cable TV channels and low power radiostations, the CRTC wants to create an overallapproach to community-oriented programming. The

motivation is “a diversity of voices in the broadcasting systemat the local level.” The Commission also says it recognizes thatlarger regional and national players may be affecting local andcommunity programming. The deadline for comment is May7... Montreal-based Power Corp. and its European partner(Belgian financier Albert Frère) now have a 25% interest inglobal media empire Bertelsmann AG, Europe's largest TVgroup. Bertelsmann had sales of $US15.6-billion last year.Power’s major properties in Canada include Investors Group,Great-West Life, and London Life Insurance... CanWestGlobal’s 10th AGM in Ottawa this week heard that theintegration of TV, print and Internet operations will lead tofurther growth. CEO Leonard Asper said consolidation willalso allow major investments in Canadian news andinformation programming and drama. Exec Chairman IzzyAsper said CanWest would then return to its quest for radio,outdoor, program production and distribution operations plusinternational expansion. The CanWest founder wants Ottawato make it easier to compete globally but that for that tohappen, the government would have to lower interest rates,cut taxes and cut red tape... BCE has announced a plan to“develop a new technology that will integrate always-on high-speed Internet access with satellite television and enhanceddigital storage.” When complete, the new service – codenamed ComboBox – will combine Bell ExpressVu with itsSympatico high speed Edition Internet access service alongwith content from Bell Globemedia (which includes CTV andthe Globe and Mail).

SUPPLYLINES: SONY of Canada held a big send-off forSr. VP Pat Whittingham Tuesday night at it’s Torontooffices. Whittingham is headed for SONY in San Josewhere he’ll take on senior responsibilities for the U.S.,

Canada and The Americas... Also at SONY, Jeff Ibbotsonhas become Division Marketing Manager, relieving JohnQuanz of the double workload he was carrying... JohnBarker, ex of JVC, is now Director of Sales at Brampton-based Cyradis Technology Group... At Leitch, the serverdivision has been award a US patent on the video data storagearchitecture used in its VR-300 and VR-400 series of serverproducts.

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Sportscaster – Mornings, Monday through Friday.You’ll deliver more than just scores. We're looking for ayoung, bright, male or female talent who’ll spotlightpersonality, insight, and opinion to bring sportscastsalive. You’re an experienced Sportscaster with aminimum three years experience.

Talk Show Host – Weekends. You’re an articulateyoung male or female broadcaster with a sense ofhumour who takes a stand on issues; one who’ll let theaudience know what you think. You must have aminimum of three years experience as a Talk Showhost. The weekend can be developed into a swing shiftwhere the successful applicant will fill-in for vacationinghosts during the week.

Newscaster – Weekends. You have three to five yearsexperience. You’re male or female. And you have thegoods - on-air and in your writing style - when it comesto delivering the solid newscasts CFRB is famous for.

Traffic Reporters – Part-Time traffic reporting from theCFRB All Day Traffic Centre. You are available to workevenings, days, weekends, and possibly split shifts.

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REVOLVING DOOR: Kevin Shea, President of theGlobal Television Network, is leaving. Shea, who waspromoted to that position in April of last year, wasresponsible for all of Global's conventional TV stations

(in Canada). That word went out yesterday (Wednesday) in amemo to staff from CEO Gerry Noble. No word on whatShea’s plans are... CRTC Vice-Chair David Colville has beenappointed Interim CRTC Chair for the next six months.Françoise Bertrand is leaving the senior post Monday. ForColville, it’s nothing new. He’s had the interim job twice before,filling-in for Keith Spicer (he took a leave) and betweenSpicer’s and Bertrand’s terms. While Colville is well-respected, his seemingly single major handicap is that hedoesn’t speak French... Telemedia Radio VP Braden Doerr,most recently VP of the Ontario regional group, assumesresponsibility for the Southern Ontario cluster of stations(London, Hamilton, and St. Catharines). Rick Doughty, VP ofOntario North Telemedia stations (Sudbury, North Bay,Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie, Pembroke and Orillia), continuesin that assignment but also adds responsibilities as a memberof the Executive committee of the Ontario division, reportingto Claude Beaudoin in his role as Telemedia Exec VP for theOntario region... Tom Cooke has been named to succeed JimMacLeod as GM of Telemedia’s Hamilton stations: K-Lite(CKLH)/Oldies 1150 CKOC/CHAM. Cooke arrives inHamilton from his Asst. GM job at Telemedia’s four Londonstations... David MacLeod, ex Manager of Marketing &Communications at the Television Bureau in Toronto, joinsthe Radio Marketing Bureau Feb. 19 as Manager, Marketingand Member Services.. New Chief Engineer at CHUM/CHUM-FM Toronto is Larry Keats, promoted after the departure offormer CE Bruce Carnegie a week back... CJOK/KYX98 FortMcMurray PD Mike Hardy has left the business. So far, nosuccessor named.

LOOKING: CFRB Toronto is looking for a Sportscaster,Talk Host, Newscaster and Traffic Reporters... The newKingston rocker, K-ROCK 105.7 (CIKR-FM), is looking

for Talent in mornings, mid-days, swing, News, andPromotions. See the ads in this edition and at the BroadcastDialogue Web site: www.broadcastdialogue.com... Other jobswe’ve heard about include KX96FM (CJKX-FM) Ajax lookingfor an afternoon News Anchor/Assignment Editor/Reporter.

GENERAL: A mandate review of the CRTC, conductedby the federal government, is about to take a look atwhether government can deregulate parts of the media

and telecom industries. There are suggestions that a completerevamp of the Commission may be the outcome – combiningresponsibility for copyright regulation, competition concerns

and investment review under one new organization, butnothing’s been decided. The review, the first since 1991,wouldalso put into place a system wherein regulators wouldn’t getin the way of Canadian companies competing in the globaleconomy... Meantime, new FCC Chairman Michael Powell issaid to be so gung-ho on free-market

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principles that he may putpressure on Canada (andother foreign markets) too p e n m a r k e t s t ointernational competitionand ownership. Powell, sonof Colin Powell, has USbroadcasters, cable andtelcos, Internet serviceproviders and othersprepared for change. Thesqueeze could come in thearea of an American pushon Canada to, for example,raise the caps on foreigno w n e r s h i p . . . C o r u sE n t e r t a i n m e n tPresident/CEO JohnCassaday says it’s time tore-think current mediameasuring. Speaking toBBM’s Staying TunedConference in Toronto thisweek, he called for “lessmeasurement and moreinsight-creation leading to

knowledge management of media consumption. We needsomething different from current research. We needcooperation between media to provide a true measure ofmulti-media usage.” Proposing an industry action plan,Cassaday called for “... an open analysis of what is availableto get the best possible media usage that starts with theconsumer and not the media.” By creating a single sourcemulti-media research database, he said, Canada couldbecome the authority for such information. The risks in notmoving forward, he said, include using the same oldsingle-media databases and “being followers instead ofleaders”. According to Cassaday, we need less measurementand more insight-creation leading to knowledge managementof media consumption; cooperation between media to providea true measure of multi-media usage... Winners of the

prestigious Canadian Women in Communications annualawards – to be celebrated in Ottawa Feb. 19 – are: Woman ofthe Year – Denise Donlon; Mentor of the Year – MichaelMcCabe; and, Trailblazer of the Year – Michèle Fortin.Donlon, who spent the bulk of her career atCitytv/MuchMusic, is President at Sony Music Canada.McCabe is President/CEO of the Canadian Association ofBroadcasters. And, Fortin is Vice-President, FrenchTelevision Services, for the Canadian BroadcastingCorporation... The North American BroadcastersAssociation (NABA) says Microsoft Corp. will sponsorNABA’s International Achievement Award for three yearsbeginning with the presentation of the 2000 award Feb. 25-26in Los Angeles. Microsoft also becomes an associate memberof NABA... Rogers Communications posted a fourth-quarterand year-end net loss although revenues rose at its cable,cellphone, and media units. It lost $21.1 million, or 20-cents ashare, in the quarter ended Dec. 31, compared with a $27.2million loss (or 19 cents a share) the year before. But quarterlyrevenues rose to more than $947 million from $862 million, again of nearly 10%. For the year, Rogers lost $90.1 million,down 29% from a loss of $127.1 million last year. Revenuesrose 12.8% to $3.5 billion... Meantime, cablecos areforecasting reduced capital spending. Rogers execs saycapital expenditures should peak this year between $630-million and $680-million. The story is also true at Shaw Cablewhere, just a few weeks ago, execs there told investors thatit’s making a detailed review with a goal of reducing operatingexpenses and deferring capital expenditures. The eyes onspending come after spending tens of millions in buildingnetworks capable of carrying high-speed Internet service andinteractive TV signals... CRTC Chair Françoise Bertrand hasbeen getting some nice send-offs. Alliance Atlantis held aposh party this week in Toronto, CanWest Global honoredBertrand with a dinner in Ottawa the week before, and theCanadian Association of Broadcasters also staged afarewell-to-Bertrand bash.

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RADIO: JJ Johnston at Corus Radio in Toronto hasissued an appeal to anybody who has photos orfootage of the late Alden Diehl to get in touch with him(416/408-5433). JJ’s in the process of putting together

the presentation when Diehl is honoured at Canadian MusicWeek by his induction (posthumously) to the CMW BroadcastHall of Fame. As JJ says, “There are lots of stories about thiswonderful character and we’d like you to share yours”. Materialwill be put into a special presentation gift for the Diehl family...Digital Radio Roll-Out Inc. launched its first majorawareness campaign this week supporting Digital AudioBroadcasting. The DAB campaign is geared towardgenerating public awareness and to drive traffic to the DABWeb site: www.digitalradio.ca. The spots – created byHennessy and Bray in Toronto – are running on 30stations in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Windsor...The Haliburton Broadcasting Group has won two FMlicences, one each at Timmins and Kapuskasing. In Timmins,the new station – a sister to the existing French languageFM’er – will program CHR at 93.1 MHz with power of 3,600watts. At Haliburton’s CKAP Kapuskasing, the green light toflip to FM programming CHR at 100.9 and power of 12,000watts... Also approved is Corus Radio’s application to flipCKGY Red Deer to FM while sustaining the current Countryprogramming. CKGY-FM will have power of 100,000 watts at95.5... The Flow, Milestone’s new Urban formatted station inToronto, began testing on the weekend at 93.5. Liveprogramming from the new station - literally “across the street”from The Edge (CFNY-FM) - begins next month... Majormusic labels are overjoyed with the Napster decision Monday.Recording Industry Association of America lawyer ChuckCooper said the ruling “pretty much writes Napster's epitaph.Its days as an instrument of electronic shoplifting are over.” Butthere are those who say that whatever the software, Internet-delivered music is here to stay. The US Court said Napstercan be held liable for the trade in copyrighted music and thatit will be obligated to police its system for copyright materialand to prevent its trade. The appeals court judges alsocautioned that Redwood City, CA,-based Napster may be heldliable for damages in the looming lawsuit with recordcompanies. Here in Canada, Canadian Recording IndustryAssociation President Brian Robertson in Toronto said theAmerican ruling is a victory for copyrighted music. He says theCanadian music business has been hard hit by Internetdownloading... SurferNETWORK.com, an Internet marketingand content distribution company based in New Jersey, hasbeen awarded the radio assets of BroadcastAMERICA.comof Portland, Maine. The acquisition occurred during an auctionwhich was part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding.SurferNETWORK also completed its acquisition of the radioassets of Vancouver-based GlobalMedia.com. The two addedcompanies will give SurferNETWORK more than 1000 radiostations under contract... Vancouver’s NetNationCommunications, Inc. has an agreement to provide liveaudio streaming services to CBC Radio's B.C. media site.The company already hosts an interactive live audio streamingWeb site complementing shows on CBC Radio One...Satellite programming will be affected by solar transits Feb 25

- March 6. Check with your syndicator(s)... EZ Rock Q97(CIQM-FM) London raised $185,000 for the Children’sHospital of Western Ontario through its Second AnnualQKids Radiothon. The event, held over last weekend, supportsthe paediatric health centre’s activities as it serves more than100 communities in the region.

SYNDICATION: Jones Broadcast Programming (BP)is launching a new Monday-Friday AC overnight show:Dave 'til Dawn, featuring Dave Wingert. The newprogram is available March 1. Wingert had been

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TV/FILM: Alliance Atlantis has reachedagreement to acquire Halifax-based SalterStreet Films for $63-million. Apart from Salter’s1,100 half-hour program library, it also owns the

‘Category 1' Independent Film Channel Canada. Michaeland Paul Donovan would have multi-year agreements. SalterStreet Films will remain in Halifax. If the CRTC approves thechange in control of the specialty channel, it too would stay inNova Scotia, and Michael Donovan would become Chairmanof the Independent Film Channel Canada... MuchMusic’smillion-dollar production of the SnowJob 2001 Festival fromthe Sun Peaks Resort near Kamloops in March is beingthreatened. In a letter, First Nations told MuchMusic that therewould be protests at the music festival if the show went on.Some native groups are upset over planned expansion of theresort and the impact such expansion would have on huntingand harvesting rights. Much GM David Kines says he’slooking at working something out, perhaps even allowing“something that gets their message out and lets us do ourevent.” SnowJob 2001 is MuchMusic's annual winter musicfestival, to be aired this year March 12-18... The CRTC saysStar Choice Communications can hold on to space on aTelesat satellite, controlled by BCE Inc. The ruling blocksTelesat from taking back four transponders that it had agreedto sell to Star Choice. The plan had been for Telesat to sell thefour (on Anik F1) transponders to Alliance Atlantis, Chumand CTV, with CTV standing to gain half of the freed-up space.The Commission ruling is that three of the transpondersshould be available to Star Choice, while the fourth could bereturned to Telesat and sold to carriers on a first come, firstserved basis... Meanwhile, Telesat Canada has boughtInfosat Communications in a move seen as BCE

consolidating its satellite services. BCE owns Telesat. Infosatprovides voice, fax, paging and data communications toremote locations – primarily in Western Canada – and didabout $26 million in revenue last year... CHCH-TV Hamilton,positioned for the past couple of years as ONtv (akin to itsthen WIC-owned Vancouver cousin, BCTV), has returned toits regional roots. On Monday, the 46-year-old station wasrebranded as CH Television by new owners CanWest GlobalCommunications. GM Patrick O’Hara says the station willbecome a strong and distinctive regional voice; the jewel ofprogramming being an innovative, three-hour morning show...CanWest Global Communications has contributed $1-millionfor a new communications research chair at Hamilton’sMcMaster University. The donation is aimed toward aresearch and teaching position in the Humanities Faculty.

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TV/FILM: The CRTC is expected to releasetoday (Thursday) how much the privatenetworks spend on homegrown programming.Making the numbers public is part of the

licence renewal process for CTV, CanWest Global andTVA. All are scheduled to appear this spring (weeks of April17 and 23). The figures will be published despite theinterventions against doing so by CanWest and theCanadian Association of Broadcasters... Meantime, theCRTC has asked for public input on the CTV and Globalrenewals. And, it will be the first time that it will use the newapproach – as outlined in its June 1999 TV Policy – toexamine licences. Says the CRTC: “The new approach willallow the Commission to consider these broadcasters'corporate strategies and how individual stations willimplement the strategies. It will also allow the Commissionto take into account the contributions made by all aspectsof a licensee's operations, including specialty services andproduction companies, to the Canadian broadcastingsystem.” March 23 is the deadline for comments... Thanksto a $500,000 commitment by Global Television, theCanadian Women in Communications MentorshipProgram may now be further developed and enhanced.Announced at the CWC 10th Annual Gala Dinner in OttawaMonday night, the expanded procedure – now called theCWC/Global Television Network Mentorship Program – willbroaden perspectives to allow wider participation, includingthe most senior and junior levels. It provides CWCmembers an opportunity for a year of informal coaching,advice and development of leadership qualities... VisionTV has a two-year deal with Thirteen/WNET New York tothat would make it WNET’s partner of preference in theCanadian market. Vision TV has exclusive right of firstnegotiation to license WNET programming on Vision and itsnew specialty channels... Bell Canada has unveiled avideo distribution service for the TV production and filmindustry that it says should grow into a $100-million-a-yearfibre-optic business within about four years. Bell Nexxiafigures the new service could help cut days from post-production because of instant delivery. Look for charges ofbetween $400 and $1,500 an hour, based on speed and format... Technicolor Worldwide Film Group says it’s goingto build “the world’s largest film laboratory” in an industrial park near Quebec’s Mirabel Airport, creating 275 jobs. It’san area where the Quebec government has created a duty-free trading zone. Movies will be flown to Mirabel from othercountries and duplicated, without having to pay duty. Back in October, Technicolor bought Montreal’s Covitec Groupfor $60 million, thus acquiring its film lab and production support operations in Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec City...

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Stations and ad agenciesusing the identicast.comWeb site, as provided byAudioTrack WatermarkSolutions Corp., to trackcommercial runs, may haveto look elswhere. Word isthat the company hasfolded. The companyis/was headquartered inSeattle, with an office indowntown Toronto, andoffered commercial auditservices... Who getsROBTv, CanWest or TheGlobe and Mail’s G&MBusiness News Ltd.? Bothown 50%. Three arbitratorsare getting set to try sortingit out. Arbitration followsCanWest's failed attempt tobuy out its partner forallegedly breaching the

terms of their shareholders' agreement.

RADIO: Where the Toronto Blue Jays Baseballgames are aired this year may be sorted out in thenext day or so. The Club itself now has the right toplace the games with any broadcaster it wants, free

of any claim from Headline Media Group. Does that meanCHUM Toronto , which has aired Blue Jays Baseball thepast couple of years, just got snookered? When asked,VP/GM Paul Williams of CHUM’s new The Team network,would offer no comment. The terse press release said onlythat a confidential settlement had been reached in “that theToronto Blue Jays Baseball Club is entitled to place itsradio broadcast rights with any radio broadcaster itchooses, free of any claim from HMG”... CJCS Stratfordis putting together a broadcast effort for India Earthquakerelief, and Broadcast News has offered its satelliteresources. Stations interested in helping to co-ordinate thiseffort are invited to get in touch with CJCS President/GMSteve Rae at steverae@cjcsradio.com.

REVOLVING DOOR: Phyllis Yaffe has beenappointed CEO at Atlantis AllianceCommunications in Toronto. Yaffe relinquishes herPresident’s role in favor of Mark Rubenstein, in

from his most recent position as Managing Director ofYahoo! Canada. He will also be COO. Rubenstein’sprevious position was as Sr VP/GM of the CHUMCity TVGroup... Ross Langbell, Director of Research atCFUN/CHQM-FM Vancouver, becomes GM of RCSCanada March 1. He’ll be based in Vancouver... CJNT-TVMontreal, the ethnic station recently acquired by CanWest

Global, has appointedJohn Kuyk as SeniorManager under GlobalQuebec GM MaureenRogers . OperationsManager is GilbertCrepeau. CJNT has alsoset-up an Advisory Boardto be led by Bev Oda, exof CTV and a formerCRTC Commissioner...Long-time CKAT NorthBay Morning Man PeterMcKeown becomes OpsMgr for at Telemedia’sthree North Bay stations– T h e F O X / E ZRock/CKAT... Also atNorth Bay, Clint Thomasbecomes Ass’t ND, takingup the slack of NDClancy MacDonald’sresignation... CJOK FortMcMurray Morning Man Tim Day gives up that gig tobecome PD at both CJOK and sister station, KYX98...Chris Myers, part of the morning show at Kiss 92 Regina,moves to PD chores at Peace River Broadcasting (KIX106/CKYL) in late March... Barry Dodd joins CHUM-TV’sCIVI-TV Victoria as Director of Programming andPromotion. Dodd has been with BCTV (CHAN-TV)Vancouver.

SIGN-OFF: David Walker, who helped launchOntario’s TVO Network, has died in Toronto at 73.He was Exec. Director there from 1975 to 1985. Hebecame a broadcast consultant and taught broadcast

policy at Toronto’s York University.

GENERAL: The federal Competition Bureau, in asubmission to the CRTC, is supporting cablecompanies on the issue of cablecos owning andcontrolling specialty TV channels. Impetus for the

Competition Bureau’s stance is the decision to allow BCEInc. to purchase CTV, including CTV’s specialty channels.The bureau argues that CRTC ownership restrictionspreclude cablecos from taking advantage of marketopportunities (as BCE can now do) and that they shouldn’tbe so constrained. Instead, it recommends cable beallowed to own majority interests in such channels, with acap on the number of analogue channels cable companiesand affiliates can own. The Canadian Cable TelevisionAssociation (CCTA) – in a bid to head off concerns aboutanti-competitive behaviour – has committed to no channelsbeing moved from present dial positions without CRTCapproval (should they be given the right to increase their

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Cohen writes: “I consider it important to say to you just howsignificant the role of RTNDA members has been on theRegional Councils around the country. The measure ofthat contribution has been partly reflected in the fact thatHudson Mack (CHEK-TV Victoria) and Daryl Braun(CKMW Winkler) became Regional Vice-Chairs a coupleof years ago and that Daryl has now become the firstRTNDA member to become the full Chair of one of ourCouncils. Our original arrangement with the RTNDA backin the fall of 1993 was that we would have an RTNDArepresentative on each Regional Council. In no way did weappreciate back then how major the contribution of thoseRTNDA members would become. You know perfectly wellthat there has never been even a tacit understanding ofany role beyond Council membership that your NDs wouldplay on the CBSC. Well, as I have said to you before(orally), their judgment has, as a general rule, been sobeneficial to the CBSC (and consequently to allCanadians) on issues of all kinds, not in any way limited tojournalistic matters, that such leadership roles make sensefrom our own perspective. The CBSC Councils play a realrole in the definition of all aspects of radio and televisioncontent. We would not achieve those results nearly as wellwithout your members.”

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