The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) announced today the appointment of its new members joining the Board of Directors.
Joining the board are:
Julie Adam: Senior Vice President Radio, Rogers Communications
Jennifer Dettman (Observer): Executive Director, Unscripted Content at CBC
Christina Litz: Senior Vice President, Marketing & Content, Canadian Football League
Meghan Symsyk: Vice President, International Marketing & Management, Entertainment One
Rob Zifarelli: Agent, Paradigm Talent Agency
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For 19 nonstop hours as Hurricane Irma lashed Florida, disc jockey Nio Fernandez broadcast updates in Spanish from the 92.5 Maxima radio studios in St. Petersburg, Florida, fielding updates from those trapped in their homes as wind and rain whipped through the area.
“There was a sense of desperation in people’s voices,” he said of callers to the station. “They needed to know what was happening.”
Fernandez’s efforts made it possible for listeners who had lost power, cell or internet service — as many in the region had — to keep up with the storm’s progress using FM radio chips embedded in their smartphones.
But not iPhone users. Though the phone includes the FM chip, Apple Inc. has chosen not to activate the feature, a move critics say could be putting lives in danger.
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Good journalism is “critical” to democracy but Ottawa says it won’t bail out media models “that are no longer viable.”
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly took the wraps off the Liberal government’s vision for culture in Canada, laying out in broad strokes a road map for everything from onscreen productions, poetry and books and the fate of small-town newspapers.
In laying out the vision during a noon-hour speech Thursday, Joly looked at the challenges facing local media in Canada, which have been battered by sharp declines in revenue.
Joly said she’s heard first-hand about the “importance” of local news and the different ways it can be delivered, by radio, television, local newspaper and online outlets.
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On August 25, 2017, the Copyright Board of Canada (“Board”) released its decision certifying the royalties payable to songwriters and music publishers for the reproduction of musical works by online music services operating in Canada, including services that offer music downloads, on-demand streaming and webcasting. CMRRA-SODRAC Inc. (“CSI”), the music collective that represents the vast majority of music rightsholders in Canada, is greatly disappointed by the decision and has filed an application for judicial review before the Federal Court of Appeal on a number of reviewable errors.
“CSI does not agree with many aspects of the Board’s decision, including the very dramatic reduction in the royalty rates for streaming services and the virtual elimination of minimum rates for subscription services and services offered on a free or ad-supported model,” said Alain Lauzon, President of CSI and General Manager of the Society for Reproduction Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers in Canada (“SODRAC”). “If applied, these rates would significantly decrease royalties payable to songwriters and music publishers, and provide no compensation at all in some cases.”
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Canada’s audience measurement organization for TV and radio, Numeris, is embracing what analytics can do for its internal organization.
The company, which was founded in 1944 as a division of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters as the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement, is the primary provider of viewership numbers for TV and radio broadcasters in Canada. In 2001 it shortened its name to BBM Canada, and in 2014 it went through a full rebrand to become Numeris.
Back in 1964, the non-profit organization became one of the world’s first ratings services to use computerized sample selection, and in 2004 it teamed up with the United States’ Nielsen Media Research for its portable people meter system for TV. Now Numeris has turned to SAS Institute Inc. for the SAS Platform and the analytics resources that accompany it.
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A radio is an essential part of any emergency preparedness kit, whether it’s a regular radio or an National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Weather Radio (or, ideally, both). But in an age where we’ve got cellular technology and smartphones with capabilities that far exceed what radio can do, why do we still rely on such old-school tech for relaying information in an emergency?
Simply put: radio travels way farther than an LTE broadcast. That makes it much easier to get a signal, and reaching as many people as possible is the first priority with emergency broadcasts.
Read more here.
Newfoundland Capital Co. Limited (TSE:NCC) declared a Semi-Annual dividend on Monday, August 14th, Zacks reports. Investors of record on Thursday, August 31st will be paid a dividend of 0.25 per share on Friday, September 15th. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, August 29th.
About Newfoundland Capital Co. Limited
Newfoundland Capital Corporation Limited (Newcap) is a Canada-based pure-play radio company. The Company owns and operates Newcap Radio, which is a radio broadcaster with approximately 90 licenses across Canada. The Company operates through two segments: Broadcasting, and Corporate and Other. The Company’s Broadcasting segment consists of the operations of the Company’s radio and television licenses.
2017 Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees
Artist Inductee
Paul Brandt
Stan Klees Builder Award – Builder Inductee
Harvey Gold
CCMA Awards of Achievement
Slaight Music Humanitarian Award
Country 105 Caring for Kids Radiothon
Leonard T. Rambeau International Award
Franck Boucheraud
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CJAD, as it always does, leads the pack in Montreal. Summer is not the best of times for talk stations, while Hit stations usually do well. As such, Cogeco’s Beat was able to vastly close the distance between itself and the market leaders, but expect that gap to widen again in fall. CJAD came in at a 24.8, while The Beat was at 21.1.
Virgin had a nice 1-share uptick book-to-book and remains comfortably in 3rd with a 15.1.
CHOM has been steady throughout 2017. They were flat from spring with a 11.7
Rounding out the top 5 was the CBC with a 7.5.
| All People 12+ Mon – Sun
2am – 2am |
Montreal | ||||||||
| Share % | Daily Cume (000) | ||||||||
| Station | May Aug 2017 | Feb May 2017 | Nov Feb 2017 | Sep Nov 2016 | Jun Aug 2016 | Feb May 2016 | Nov Feb 2016 | May Aug 2017 | Feb May 2017 |
| CJAD | 24.8 | 27.7 | 28.2 | 29.6 | 26.4 | 29.0 | 29.6 | 174.7 | 187.0 |
| CKBE-FM | 21.1 | 16.7 | 17.2 | 17.4 | 19.2 | 16.8 | 16.1 | 235.8 | 221.3 |
| CJFM-FM | 15.1 | 14.1 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 16.3 | 16.0 | 16.2 | 214.8 | 204.8 |
| CHOM-FM | 11.7 | 11.9 | 11.0 | 10.2 | 12.9 | 13.3 | 11.7 | 138.0 | 142.5 |
| CBME-FM | 7.5 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 52.8 | 55.1 |
| CKGM | 2.6 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 45.5 | 64.2 |
| CFGL-FM | 2.1 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 54.3 | 55.6 |
| CJPX-FM | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 27.4 | 26.8 |
| CBM-FM | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 19.1 | 20.8 |
| CKOI-FM | 1.5 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 38.7 | 37.6 |
| CITE-FM | 1.3 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 34.3 | 30.4 |
| CHMP-FM | 1.2 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 21.4 | 27.2 |
| CKMF-FM | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 24.8 | 22.1 |
| CHRF | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| CKLX-FM | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 5.3 | 4.9 |
| CBF-FM | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 7.0 | 10.6 |
| CBFX-FM | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.63 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 5.8 | 6.6 |
| CKAC | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 6.0 | 4.5 |
| CIBL-FM | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.9 | |||
TERMS
Share – Within a central market area, the estimated total hours tuned to that station expressed as a percentage of total hours tuned to Total Encoded Radio.
Cume (000) – Expressed in thousands, this is the total number of people who were exposed to the stations for at least one minute during the analyzed period.
Average Daily Universe – The average daily universe for the analyzed period. The universe is expressed as daily averages because it changes slightly daily as the intab changes.
CHFI just keeps rolling along. The Rogers juggernaut continued its winning ways once again, albeit with a very slight share decline to 11. It’s doubtful there will be too much many worries, though, as the station typically does extremely well in fall.
The CBC stayed flat in second.
CHUM-FM was also flat, but saw their rank rise to third on the .9 share decline for Newcap’s Boom.
NewsTalk 1010 had a solid summer and remain 5th with 680 News also steady at 6th.
Q107 packed on over a share in the sunshine and now have a solid 6.9 share in 7th.
The CHR war continues to be won by Bell’s Virgin. They were flat book-to-book, but still have a 2.4 share lead over Kiss, which failed again to crack the top 10.
Moses Znaimer will be pleased once more as his two stations again round out the top 10 with Classical FM in 9th and Zoomer in 10th.
Looking from 11 to 15 – Kiss, The Edge, Sportsnet 590, Z103.5, and AM 640.
| All People 12+ Mon – Sun
2am – 2am |
Toronto | ||||||||
| Share % | Daily Cume (000) | ||||||||
| Station | May Aug 2017 | Feb May 2017 | Nov Feb 2017 | Sep Nov 2016 | Jun Aug 2016 | Feb May 2016 | Nov Feb 2016 | May Aug 2017 | Feb May 2017 |
| CHFI-FM | 11.0 | 11.4 | 14.0 | 9.4 | 9.1 | 9.5 | 11.1 | 909.5 | 927.1 |
| CBLA-FM | 8.8 | 8.9 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 8.7 | 9.0 | 10.4 | 418.8 | 420.3 |
| CHUM-FM | 8.7 | 8.7 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 683.0 | 671.7 |
| CHBM-FM | 8.0 | 8.9 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 9.2 | 8.3 | 7.6 | 654.2 | 636.7 |
| CFRB | 7.3 | 6.7 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 6.2 | 7.0 | 3.5 | 362.2 | 359.9 |
| CFTR | 7.1 | 6.6 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 680.9 | 677.1 |
| CILQ-FM | 6.9 | 5.7 | 4.7 | 5.9 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 481.9 | 442.0 |
| CKFM-FM | 5.7 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 738.6 | 727.6 |
| CFMZ-FM | 5.5 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 261.8 | 247.7 |
| CFZM | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 5.0 | 214.0 | 212.9 |
| CKIS-FM | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 531.2 | 546.3 |
| CFNY-FM | 2.8 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 287.6 | 295.4 |
| CJCL | 2.8 | 3.2 | 2.3 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 264.5 | 283.4 |
| CIDC-FM | 2.7 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 336.5 | 338.9 |
| CFMJ | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 119.7 | 145.8 |
| CBL- FM | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 2.8 | 113.6 | 110.6 |
| CFXJ-FM | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 253.9 | 259.0 |
| CJRT-FM | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 94.1 | 79.8 |
| CKFG-FM | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 115.1 | 122.5 |
| CHKX- FM | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 107.6 | 107.7 |
| CKDX-FM | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 78.3 | 89.3 |
| CIND-FM | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 187.7 | 187.2 |
| CINA | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 48.6 | 39.2 |
| CHUM | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 48.7 | 96.5 |
| CING-FM | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 92.7 | 77.8 |
TERMS
Share – Within a central market area, the estimated total hours tuned to that station expressed as a percentage of total hours tuned to Total Encoded Radio.
Cume (000) – Expressed in thousands, this is the total number of people who were exposed to the stations for at least one minute during the analyzed period.
Average Daily Universe – The average daily universe for the analyzed period. The universe is expressed as daily averages because it changes slightly daily as the intab changes.
