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New-Brunswick’s new weekly publication exclusive for the professionals of Cinema, Television and Media. Astral and reply Summary to CRTC submissions Page 2 Statement by the Honourable James Moore Page 3 Display of Incorrect Solution on Contest (Astral) and BCE Inc. (Bell) today announced they have replied to inter- Page 4 CRTC releases 2012 financial results for specialty ventions filed with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunica- Page 4 Canadian shorts big at Cannes tions Commission (CRTC), part of the CRTC’s process to review the Page 5 Rita MacNeil dead at 68 Page 5 Agenda proposed transaction to unite Astral and Bell Media. “Astral and Bell Media are happy to present our plan to deliver great new TV, radio and film content across all platforms and to enhance com- The CMF Publishes Performance Envelope Allocations petition in a rapidly evolving broadcasting system,” said Kevin Crull, President of Bell Media. “We appreciate the letters of support received The Canada Media Fund (CMF) posted the 2013-2014 Performance from Canadian consumers, creators, and broadcast and cable compa- Envelope allocations to its website. Allocations per broadcaster can be nies, and we acknowledge those who question the transaction. found at cmf-fmc.ca. We believe our plan fully addresses their concerns, and we look forward In December 2012, the CMF announced the factor weights used to cal- to detailing the benefits of the transaction during the CRTC’s public culate the 2013-2014 Performance Envelope allocations. A Performance hearing in May.” Envelope is calculated by measuring a broadcaster’s performance against that of other broadcasters in each genre and language, based on five “Astral is proud of our long history of creating world-class content weighted factors: audience success – total hours tuned, audience success and world-class opportunities here in Québec and across Canada,” said – original first run, historic performance, regional production licenses, Jacques Parisien, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and digital media investment. All factor weight details are outlined in the of Astral. Envelope Manual which can be found on cmf-fmc.ca. “By joining with Bell Media, we’ll build on that proud legacy, ensuring In March 2013, the CMF announced a program budget of $360.7 M for consumers and creators benefit from accelerated investment and inno- 2013-2014 of which a total of $259.0 M in performance envelope alloca- vation in new programming, especially in the French-language media tions is shared between 21 English broadcasters receiving $173.3 M and marketplace.” 13 French broadcasters receiving $85.7 M. This year, in order to simplify the funding process, performance envelopes were allocated by broadcast Under both an agreement with the Competition Bureau and their ownership group or individual broadcaster (as applicable) rather than by amended application to the CRTC, Astral and Bell Media will sell individual channel or station. several Astral TV services. The divestitures include 100% of Astral’s On April 5, 2013, broadcasters were also allocated envelopes that they English-language specialty TV services and 50% of its French-language can use to support development projects. These envelopes were calcu- specialty TV. lated by using two factors weighted at 50% each: historic performance in development and the share of total 2013-2014 Performance Envelopes. After selling a total of 11 Astral TV services, Bell Media would re- Development allocations by broadcast ownership group or individual tain 8 Astral pay and specialty TV services - the French-language Su- broadcaster (as applicable) can be found on the CMF website. per Écran, Cinépop, , , TV, and Ztélé, and English-language services The Movie Network, which includes HBO Canada, and TMN Encore. If you are currently developing, “A primary focus for Bell Media is growth in Québec and the French- producing or in the stage of post language media marketplace. production, please let us know. We Even after the sale of half of Astral’s French-language specialty TV services, Bell Media would increase its viewing share in this market would love to share your story with our to 22.6% - still less than the 31% viewing share enjoyed by Québecor, readers. but a significant enhancement to market competition nevertheless,” said Mr. Crull. [email protected] or 506 394-5412. (page 3)

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Monday, 2/5 2013 22, april Statement by the Honourable James Moore page Day after day, our artists provide Canadians On behalf of Prime Minister Stephen Harper Sarah Polley, winner of the National Arts Cen- with unforgettable artistic experiences. These and the Government of Canada, I would like to tre Award. Each laureate’s contribution to our talented creators and their works deepen our congratulate those receiving Lifetime Artistic cultural landscape has earned the deep admira- appreciation of the arts and help strengthen our Achievement Awards this year: Andrew Dawes, tion of Canadians. communities and our economy. Daniel Lanois, Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Viola Lé- For more than twenty years, the annual Gov- ger, Menaka Thakkar and Eric Peterson. I would also like to thank the Governor Gener- ernor General’s Performing Arts Awards have al’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation and the recognized the Canadian artists and arts volun- I also congratulate Jean Pierre Desrosier, recipi- National Arts Centre for their work in honour- teers whose achievements have inspired us and ent of the 2013 Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award ing outstanding Canadian talent through these enriched the cultural life of our nation. for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts, and prestigious awards.

Development Ride Along - television comedy series created by Gia Milani and produced at Shore Road Pictures by Tony Whalen & Gia Milani. Developed with funding from the Province of New Brunswick and the Canada Media Fund. Wheat Kings - feature film written by Jillian Acreman and produced at Shore Road Pictures by Tony Whalen & Gia Milani. Developed with fund- ing from the Province of New Brunswick. Shore road pictures; Strathcona - feature film written by Gia Milani and produced at Shore Road Pictures by Tony Whalen & Gia Milani. Devel- oped with funding from the Province of New Brunswick.

Pre-production CPTV. Pour l’amour du Country XI ; série de variétés, 11 émissions de 60 minutes, animé par Patrick Norman, producteur et réalisateur François Savoie, directeur musical Marc Beaulieu, scénariste Carmel Dumas, recherchiste Edmonde Haché. Post-Production : Studio The Postman Post- Production DIFFUSEUR : ARTV et SRC CPTV.Pour l’amour du Country au Festival de St-Tite V : série de variétés, 2 émissions de 60 minutes, animé par Patrick Norman, producteur et réalisateur François Savoie, scénariste Carmel Dumas, recherchiste Edmonde Haché. Post-Production : Studio The Postman Post-Production DIF- FUSEUR : ARTV et SRC Production CPTV. Inimaginable; série documentaire, 8 émissions de 60 minutes, producteur François Savoie, réalisateurs Denise Poirier, Clarence LeBlanc et Lyne Falardeau, musique Jac Gautreau. Post-Production : Studio The Postman Post-Production DIFFUSEUR : TFO CPTV. Une langue commune, deux identités; documentaire – un émission de 60 minutes, Producteur : François Savoie, Réalisateur : Marc Basta- rache, Musique : Marc Beaulieu, Scénariste : Achille Michaud, Post-Production : Studio The Postman Post-Production , DIFFUSEUR : Société Radio-Canada The Bannisters - television drama written by Patricia Leger and Danny Thebeau, directed by Danny Thebeau, and produced by Donovan Richard and Danny Thebeau at Redleaf Productions. Executive produced by Gia Milani and Tony Whalen in association with Shore Road Pictures. This 2012 Telefilm/CBC 3-2-1 award-winning script will be broadcast on CBC in 2014. Les productions Atlantik en collaboration avec Les Productions une bouteille a la mer, Les Grands Bâtisseurs série 13 X 30 minutes CHAU TV Les Grands Bâtisseurs est une série sur les grands entrepreneurs du Nouveau-Brunswick et de la Gaspésie qui on marquer leurs communautés. Dif automne 2013. Producteur Roland Basque, Daniel Gautreau.

Post-production CPTV. Inimaginable; série documentaire, 8 émissions de 60 minutes, producteur François Savoie, réalisateurs Denise Poirier, Clarence LeBlanc et Lyne Falardeau, musique Jac Gautreau. Post-Production : Studio The Postman Post-Production DIFFUSEUR : TFO CPTV. L’Université de Moncton à 50 ans; documentaire – 60 minutes, Producteur : François Savoie, Réalisateur : Marc Bastarache, Musique : Jac Gautreau, Post-Production : Studio The Postman Post-Production , DIFFUSEUR : Société Radio-Canada

Écho de l UNESCO Documentaire pour diffuseur télévision conventionnelle 60 minutes, Réalisatrice : Anika Lirette Shore Road Pictures. All the Wrong Reasons is a SLAMDANCE award-winning theatrical feature film written and directed by Gia Milani starring Cory Monteith (Glee), Kevin Zegers (Transamerica), Karine Vanasse (Pan Am) and Emily Hampshire (Cosmopolis). It is produced by Gia Milani, Tony Whalen (Shore Road Pictures) and Phyllis Laing, Monique Perro (Buffalo Gal Pictures), in association with Telefilm Canada, the Province of New Brunswick, Pacific Northwest Pictures, Myriad Pictures, The Movie Network, Movie Central and Film Nova Scotia tax credits. Heavenly Gifts Silent Musical Fiction TV Hour Co-Producer/Director: Jon Collicott Co-Producer/Production Manager: Roberta Nixon Havrer à la Baie ,post production, documentaire, 52 minutes, réalisateur-Joël Robichaud , producteur-Suzette Lagacé et directeur photo- Mario Pau- lin. Suivez-nous sur notre page Facebook! Havrer à la Baie

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Monday, 3/5 2013 22, april Display of Incorrect Solution on Contest page “All of these remaining English and French-language TV services are part Show Breaches Broadcast Code of the Astral and Bell Media plan to increase consumer choice and service innovation in Canadian media.” Says Canadian Broadcast Standards Council The principal opposition to Astral joining with Bell Media has come from The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) released its deci- some cable and telecom companies that compete with Bell, specifically sion concerning two episodes of L’instant gagnant broadcast on V in because Astral and Bell Media are eager to inject fresh ideas, significant September 2012. new investment, and more competition into Canadian media, especially in Québec. The CBSC concluded that a mathematical game on one episode breached the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics be- These competitors, many of them large vertically integrated corporations, cause the solution displayed on screen was incorrect. claim Astral and Bell Media will somehow restrict their access to content - despite the fact that both Astral and Bell Media already have long-term L’instant gagnant is a contest program in which hosts invite viewers to distribution and affiliation agreements in place with them. telephone the program to solve various games and puzzles in order to win a cash prize. Bell Media is also respectful of and compliant with the CRTC’s rigorous Vertical Integration rules, which govern the relationship between broad- Each call to the show costs $1 regardless of whether or not the caller gets casters and distributors. the chance to solve the puzzle. The CBSC received a complaint from a viewer who complained about various aspects of the program, including Recognizing the rapidly changing competitive landscape in a multi-plat- the telephone selection system, comments made by the hosts and solu- form, cross-border broadcasting universe, Bell Media was formed in 2011 tions to certain puzzles. to compete both with Canada’s established vertically integrated cable/ broadcast companies and with fast-growing international broadcasters such as Netflix and Google.

Bell Media’s plan to join with Astral was originally announced on March 16, 2012. After the CRTC’s rejection of Astral and Bell Media’s original application on October 18, 2012, the two companies filed a new applica- tion addressing the CRTC’s concerns on November 19, later amended to reflect terms in the March 4, 2013 consent agreement between Bell and the Competition Bureau.

Bell Media has also committed to a tangible benefits package of $174.64 million to develop and promote new French and English language TV, radio and film content, support emerging Canadian musical talent, and enable new media training and consumer participation initiatives in the Canadian broadcasting industry.

Bell Media will also retain Astral’s 2 rural over-the-air TV stations in Brit- ish Columbia, CJDC in Dawson Creek and CFTK in Terrace, and Astral’s interest in the Viewer’s Choice Canada pay-per-view service. Astral and As in previous decisions relating to programs of this genre, the CBSC Bell Media have committed to keeping all local TV stations open and to explained that it had no jurisdiction to comment on the telephone system maintaining their local programming. or other off-air elements of the program. Consistent with the CRTC’s policy on radio ownership, Bell is divesting 10 English-language radio stations. Because of the strong desire expressed It also found no problems with the behaviour of the hosts. It did, how- by Montréal sports fans to retain TSN Radio 690 as an English-language ever, find a breach of the Contest provision of the CAB Code of Ethics sports station, Bell Media has requested permission to continue to operate for a puzzle that was broadcast during the September 17 episode. TSN 690 as an English-language sports radio station.

The contest involved the addition of all numbers in an image. The final Due to the need for regulatory approvals, Astral and Bell on November answer displayed at the end of the game was 1643, but the actual total of 19, 2012 extended the outside date for closing the transaction to June 1, the numbers displayed was 1743. 2013, with both Astral and Bell having the right to postpone it further to July 31, 2013. V later explained that the graphic artist who prepared the image of the solution had inserted one extra “100” by mistake. CanadiansDeserveMore.ca You can learn more about Astral and Bell Media at CanadiansDeserve- The CBSC Quebec Regional Panel found a violation for the broadcast More.ca, the information portal for the transaction. The updated website of the error, but noted that V and the producer had ceased broadcasting outlines the benefits of a united Astral and Bell Media for consumers and this particular type of puzzle and had agreed to reimburse participants of the broadcast industry, with interactive features allowing visitors to view episodes that had been the subject of a previous CBSC decision. support for the transaction and get answers to questions about the pro- posal.

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Monday, 4/5 2013 22, april CRTC releases 2012 financial results for specialty page Pay-per-view and video-on-demand television services While revenues continued to climb, so too did expenses, which grew from $2.7 billion in 2011 The Canadian Radio-television and Telecom- The creation of these programs contributes to to $2.9 billion in 2012. As a result, profits before munications Commission (CRTC) released sta- the overall Canadian economy by giving em- interest and taxes (PBIT) dipped slightly from tistical and financial summaries for Canadian ployment opportunities to all those involved $934.2 million, with a PBIT margin of 24.9% in specialty, pay, pay-per-view (PPV) and video- in the production sector, including performers, 2011, to $916.6 million, with a PBIT margin of on-demand (VOD) television services. writers, musicians, designers, directors, produc- 23.1% during the past year. ers and experts in the production crafts. Revenues for these television services have Sources of revenues climbed by 35.4% over the past five years to The total revenues of $3.97 billion were gener- reach nearly $4 billion in 2012. During the past ated from the following sources: year, a significant portion of these revenues, • $1.9 billion from cable subscribers close to $1.4 billion, was invested in the cre- • $733.7 million from satellite subscrib- ation of a variety of Canadian programming, ers resulting in thousands of jobs in the Canadian • $1.2 billion from national advertising production sector and new television programs • $31 million from local advertising, for Canadians. In 2012, Canadian specialty, pay, PPV and VOD television services created 226 new jobs, directly employed 6,176 and people and paid $487 million in salaries. • $80.6 million from other sources. Total revenues for English-language and bilin- Canadian programming gual services were $3.2 billion, while French- In 2012, these television services spent $1.39 language services brought in $655.4 million. billion on Canadian programming, representing a 9.6% increase over the previous year. Revenue by sectors Spending on Canadian programming included In addition, investments in non-Canadian pro- Although specialty television services continued $221 million for news programs, $233 million gramming increased from $278 million in 2011 to capture the largest share of the total revenues for programs of national interest (drama series, to $293 million in 2012. at $3.1 billion, their PBIT margin experienced long-form documentaries, and Canadian award a slight decrease over the previous year going shows), $486 million for sports programming, Profitability from 27.4% to 26.3%. $109 million for human-interest programming, In 2012, Canadian specialty, pay, PPV and VOD and $241 million for other types of program- television services generated revenues of $3.97 Pay services saw their revenues decrease by ming. billion, an increase of 5.9% over the $3.75 bil- 2.4% going from $468.9 million in 2011, with lion earned the previous year. National advertis- a PBIT margin of 26.3%, to $457.8 million in As part of these investments, specialty televi- ing revenues increased for a third consecutive 2012 with the PBIT margin of 22.2%. sion services paid $353 million to Canadian year to $1.23 billion, although its 2.4% growth On-demand services (PPV and VOD) also wit- independent producers. During the past five is significantly less than the 10.1% increase nessed a drop in revenues from $386.7 million years, these services have spent over $1.6 bil- from the previous year. In addition, subscriber to $379.6 million, representing a decrease in lion on independent productions. revenues exceeded $2.6 billion. PBIT from 4.4% to -2.2%. Canadian shorts big at Cannes Telefilm Canada is pleased to announce that • Floodplain, by B.C. native and • Pilgrims by Marie Clements (British a total of 44 Canadian short films have been Cannes veteran Jeremy Lutter, is produced Columbia), an established and critically ac- selected for the 3rd annual edition of its Not through an interesting mix of public, private claimed Métis playwright. Short On Talent market screenings at the up- and crowd-sourcing financing sources such as • The Post and S is for Bird are by coming Cannes Film Festival (May 15 to 26, the 2012 National Screen Institute (NSI) Drama filmmakers Kyle Thomas (Alberta) and Matt 2013). Not Short On Talent is a collection of Prize, bravoFACT and Indiegogo. Sadowski (Ontario). Both are finalists in our five 90-minute programs destined to screen at • Fou, Rien pis Personne is the first new Micro-Budget Production Program geared the Cannes Market and at the Festival’s Short short from Quebec’s Elise De Blois, Genie to emerging feature film talent leveraging digi- Film Corner venue. Our initiative is designed Award winner for Best Art Direction/Produc- tal technologies. to increase the international exploitation of new tion Design for Canadian box office hit Bar- • The Spirit Game by Ontarian Craig short films and to promote short film talent to ney’s Version. Goodwill stars Katie Isabelle, the Juno-win- international buyers and festival programmers. • Gloria Victoria is a 3D animation ning Chantal Kreviazuk and Liberty Ross. Telefilm’s call for submissions triggered an film by Theodore Ushev (Quebec) produced • Subconscious Password is by Os- exceptionally good response this year: we re- by the National Film Board of Canada and in car-winner (Ryan, Best Animated Short Film, ceived 175 entries! Danny Lennon, an inter- competition at Annecy 2013. 2004) Chris Landreth (Quebec) and in competi- nationally renowned short film programmer • Out ouest by New Brunswick’s tion at Annecy 2013. (Prends ça court!) for the last 12 years, screened emerging talent Jean-Michel Vienneau is an • Yellow Fish by Andrew Cividino and selected the films. improvisational short produced over five days (British Columbia) features rising star Sarah Highlights during the Festival international du cinéma Gadon (A Dangerous Method). francophone en Acadie. Telephone 506 394-5412 ctmnb@ctmnb .com CTMNB PO box 3594. Chief Postal Station, Tracadie-Sheila NB E1X 1G5

Monday, 5/5 2013 22, april Rita MacNeil dead at 68 page SOCAN member Rita MacNeil, Vocalist even though was already MacNeil continued to work con- and won Female Vocalist of the the singer-songwriter from Cape 42 years old. That year, she also sistently, releasing a new record- Year at the 1990 JUNO Awards Breton with the sweet disposition opened Rita’s Tea Room in her ing almost every year for the next and the Country Female Vocalist and the powerful voice, passed hometown of Big Pond, Nova Sco- decade. She won multiple Cana- of the Year JUNO in 1991. away April 16, 2013, following tia, which quickly became a tourist dian Country Music Awards and complications from surgery. She attraction. East Coast Music Awards, was 68 years old. She was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1992 and the MacNeil released 24 albums and Order of Nova Scotia in 2005. won dozens of awards, but she always remained humble. After From 1994-1997, she hosted the struggling in the music industry, hugely successful CBC-TV musi- her big breakthrough came when cal variety show “Rita & Friends,” she performed at Expo ’86 in Van- showcasing under-recognized couver, and released the album independent acts as well as high- Flying on Your Own. Her songs profile stars. about the challenges of working people earned radio play across After 1997, she hosted many TV Canada, and the album soon went music specials as well. platinum. MacNeil is survived by her daugh- MacNeil won her first JUNO ter Laura, son Wade and her ex- Award that year, being named tended family. Canada’s Most Promising Female

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