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The Best Broadcast Briefing in Canada Not for Distribution Beyond Your Reception Point Copyright (2004) by Christensen Communications Ltd The Best Broadcast Briefing in Canada Not for Distribution Beyond Your Reception Point Copyright (2004) by Christensen Communications Ltd. - RR #1, Site #1, Box 150 - Brechin ON L0K 1B0 Phone: (705) 484-0752 * E-Mail: [email protected] * Web site: www.broadcastdialogue.com Thursday, July 8, 2004 Volume 12, Number 8 Page One of Two ADIO: In 2003, air time sales by private radio broadcasters jumped 8.4% to $1.2 billion, the second largest year-over-year increase in the last 15 years. The leading large markets (third year in a row), Rsays Statistics Canada, were Calgary at 29.2% and Ottawa-Gatineau at 27.2%. Operating costs overall grew 3.7% thus bringing profits – before interest and taxes – to 19.1% of revenues, up from 15.6% in 2002. StatsCan says it was the second-largest year-over-year increase in the last 15 years, with FM stations leading the way but AM stations also showed modest improvement. The Canadian Association of Broadcasters says 2003 private-sector radio sales were the best since 1975. CAB says two factors came into play for radio’s revenue improvements: Last year's improvement to a healthy economy; and, operating efficiencies flowing from a 1998 CRTC decision that allowed for increased ownership consolidation. FM revenues were up 9.8% in 2003, the highest since 1998. AM grew by 4.5%, with a profit margin of 1.6% – but that’s a significant turnaround. AM has had losses before interest and taxes every year since 1990... Meanwhile, the media and entertainment industry equities research group at Merrill Lynch in the US has again reduced its radio revenue forecast, despite forecasters – including Merrill Lynch, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Universal McCann, TNS Media Intelligence/CMR and Nielsen Monitor-Plus – having upgraded the overall outlook for the media industry. But the research team said the upgrade doesn’t hold for radio. It revised radio's 2004 growth outlook to 3.8%, down from the earlier projection of 5.6%. The reason? To reflect the “continued decelerating trends and our skepticism that radio operators will be able to easily reverse the slide.” US radio doesn't strengthen much for next year, according to Merrill Lynch. It predicts 2005's growth at 5.0%, down from an earlier estimate of 5.6%... The Puget Sound Radio Board reports that Silk-FM Kelowna has moved to music from the 80s, IDing itself as the Party Station... Thirteen full-time union workers at CFCP Radio Ltd. on Vancouver Island went on strike Monday after rejecting the "final offer" from their employer in mid-June. The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union is picketing CFCP Courtenay, CFWB Campbell River, CHQB Powell River and CFNI Port Hardy. Contentious issues are wages and disability coverage... Infinity Broadcasting may be on the verge of being hit with a $1.5 million FCC fine for Howard Stern’s on-air comments. That’s on top of the potential $500,000 fine it might levy against Viacom, Infinity’s owner. If it does come, the penalty would be split among the 18 Infinity stations that aired a 2003 Stern segment about anal sex... Tuesday’s Globe & Mail did a profile on the differences between censorship in the US and in Canada, claiming that the approach is gentler in Canada. To read the item, click HERE. EVOLVING DOOR: Barry Patterson is new Director of Marketing for the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto. He had been Sr. Manager of Communications for CBC Television... CKOC/CHAM RHamilton PD Tom Tompkins is gone. New PD is Drew Keith... Steve Wilson is new CFO/Sr. VP at Shaw Communications in Calgary, succeeding Ron Rogers. Wilson arrives at Shaw from outside the industry... Paul Gratton, VP at CHUM specialty stations Bravo!, SPACE and Drive-In Classics, takes on additional duties as VP of Independent Production... Diane Boehme, with CHUM since 1984, has been promoted from Director to Senior Director of independent production for CHUM Television... Rod McDonald, News Director at CJOK/KYX 98 Fort McMurray, wraps up his 30-year broadcast career tomorrow... Paul Cross is leaving BN Toronto for teaching at Toronto’s Humber College. The move is expected in September... Scott Simms, ex Anchor on The Weather Network, is the new Liberal MP for Bonavista Exploits in Newfoundland. His was the only seat in the province to switch hands in last week's federal election. Thursday, July 8, 2004 BROADCAST DIALOGUE Page Two of Two OOKING: WSUE-FM Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan is looking for a Sault Ste. Marie, ON.-based Sales Rep; BN Toronto – Reporter/Editors; CTV Toronto - Manager, Programming Communications for LDiscovery Channel, CTV Travel, Discovery Civilization & Animal Planet; CTV Specialty Television Inc. Toronto - Traffic Co-Ordinator; CTV Regina - Weather Anchor / Video Journalist; CBC Sudbury - Producer, French Radio; CBC Toronto - Communications Assistant and a Senior Network Analyst and a Senior Writer and a Programmer, Quality Assurance; CBC Ottawa - Junior Compensation Analyst; CBC Montreal - Radio Sound Technician; CBC St. John's - Program Marketing Coordinator; CHEX-TV Peterborough - Commercial Production Director; Q107/Country105/CHQR Calgary - Intermediate Account Executive - Sales; Corus Radio Vancouver - Interactive Content Manager; Les Chaînes Télé Astral Montreal - Adjoint(e) administratif(ve), programmation Canal Vie et Z; and, Astral Media Radio Gatineau - Animateur remplaçant Énergie 104.1. V/FILM: ACTRA, the union representing Canadian commercial actors, has agreed to a contract calling for its 7,000 active members to receive an average 6% pay hike phased in over the next three years. TIt also limits companies from airing commercials on the Internet for indefinite periods. Advertisers have agreed to pay actors as much as $1,300 for the right to broadcast a commercial on TV and online for 12 months. ACTRA's agreement with the Association of Canadian Advertisers comes four years after the Screen Actors Guild in the US won a similar concession for its members but allegedly had a difficult time enforcing the limitation... CanWest Global Communications has sold its share of Ulster Television PLC, the Northern Ireland TV station, earning $145-million to be applied toward CanWest debt. CanWest bought its stake in UTV in 1997, and will report a gain of $50-million on the sale... MuchMusic and CHUM Television Interactive have partnered with Sulake Canada in something called HabboHotel.ca, meant to bring teens together in a multiplayer graphical online community. The news release says the new Web site enables interactivity and chat “in a safe, non-violent and socially-oriented game.” Further, it takes the MuchMusic brand into a new area of the virtual world. In a nutshell, there are over 20,000 rooms inside the Web site - including a virtual replica of "MuchMusic HQ" and a "clubCHUM" zone... The CBS Super Bowl Jackson/Timberlake “clothing malfunction” may cost the 20 CBS O-and-Os $550 thousand, if reports are to be believed. All that remains is for the FCC-imposed fine to be approved and CBS will face the largest of its kind against a TV broadcaster. It’ll take three to five FCC Commissioners to approve the fine. ENERAL: The Canadian Ethnic Journalists' and Writers' Club has presented its 2004 CEJWC Awards in Toronto. Broadcast Winners are: APTN, the Aboriginal People’s Television Network with Gtwo awards, one to the network itself (the Sierhey Khmara Ziniak Award) for the development of a vital service for Canada's Aboriginal peoples, and to APTN Reporter Greg Taylor for his series, Who is Métis?; CHIN Toronto’s Zelda Young for the mini-series, Hitler: The Rise of Evil; and, Vision TV’s Sadia Zaman for the documentary Oratorio... The deadline for this year’s Canadian Association of Broadcasters Gold Ribbon Awards is tomorrow, Friday, July 9. The Gold Ribbons will be presented at the CAB’s 2004 convention in Ottawa Nov. 28-30. Click on the Gold Ribbon Awards trophy at www.cab-acr.ca for complete info... DITOR’S NOTE: Broadcast Dialogue’s newsletter will take a two-week summer break the editions Eof Thursday, July 29 and Thursday, Aug. 5 – back Aug. 12. The Best Broadcast Briefing in Canada Not for Distribution Beyond Your Reception Point Copyright (2004) by Christensen Communications Ltd. - RR #1, Site #1, Box 150 - Brechin ON L0K 1B0 Phone: (705) 484-0752 * E-Mail: [email protected] * Web site: www.broadcastdialogue.com Thursday, July 15, 2004 Volume 12, Number 9 Page One of Three ADIO: The CRTC has refused to renew CHOI- RFM Québec City’s licence because it says the station ck.-.~am92• repeatedly broadcast insulting and offensive comments 215 Carling Terrace Wingham, Ontario N0G 2W0 (519) 357-1310 (personal attacks and harassment) in violation of the CREATIVE WRITER POSITION Broadcasting Act. CHOI-FM has been controversial, generating We have an immediate full-time opening for a Creative Writer. If you are customer- focused, creative, flexible and detail oriented then you're someone we'd be dozens of complaints, since interested in. You should be capable of handling a number of projects including Genex Communications bought writing for a variety of clients. Commercial announcing and production skills would it in 1997. The parent company also be an asset to the position. You would be working a Tuesday to Saturday work- has said it will appeal the week as well as some Stat Holidays. decision to the Federal Court of Required Skills and Qualifications: Appeal. The Commission gave Strong written and verbal communication skills * Sound organizational skills * CHOI-FM two years to clean up Computer literate with proficiency in word processing * Must enjoy a fast paced its act (in 2002) but since then, working environment that is based on team and individual effort * Related post- there have been 45 new secondary degree or diploma and/or minimum 3 years previous writing complaints about its experience preferred.
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