TVA losing jobs too
The rapidly increasing downfall of Quebec journalism continues: 15 full-time jobs lost at TVA in Quebec City, to be replaced by part-time positions, multifunction journalist-camerapeople and more...
View ArticleQuébec à la une: An advertorial in three parts
I was tuning into TVA this evening to catch the series finale of Vlog, when I stumbled on a documentary about the Journal de Montréal called Québec à la une. The documentary is an interesting look at...
View ArticleKarla Homolka found… again
The winner of this round of Where is Karla Homolka Now? goes to TVA, for their EXCLUSIVE report that she’s trying to make a new life for herself in the Antilles. Did I mention it was an EXCLUSIVE...
View ArticleDon’t act in competing TV series in Quebec
La Presse reports that Louis Morissette, who stars in Radio-Canada’s C.A., was scrubbed from a list of potential actors for the upcoming season of TVA’s Lance et compte, even before he could audition...
View ArticleJournalist, criticize thyself
This is why people don’t trust the media anymore: La Presse says TVA isn’t covering the Journal de Québec situation fairly, because both are owned by Quebecor. There’s this thing with the media that’s...
View ArticleTVA mad at La Presse for suggesting they have managers
The petty legal war between the francophone media continues, as Groupe TVA (read: Quebecor/TVA/Journal de Montréal/Canoe) sent a lawyer’s letter to Groupe Gesca (read: La Presse/Cyberpresse) demanding...
View ArticleTVA hates Lagacé
I’ve always admired Patrick Lagacé. The way he works hard, the way he does his homework before putting together insightful commentary (instead of knee-jerk reactions), his hair, and the fact he puts me...
View ArticleEn primeur: TVA to resurrect Vlog
Those of you who follow Dominic Arpin via Facebook already know this, but for the benefit of the less-connected: TVA is bringing back Vlog, its weekly roundup of hot web videos, more than nine months...
View ArticleCRTC roundup: new rules for converging newsrooms
The CRTC has given final approval for the “Journalistic Independence Code” proposed by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, a self-regulation body of Canada’s private broadcasters. The code is...
View ArticleConseil de presse outs TVA for journalistic plagiarism
The Conseil de presse du Québec has denied an appeal of a decision which blames TVA for stealing a story from the biweekly Courrier Laval that studied the condition of water around Montreal. The story...
View ArticleBernard who?
Back when Bill Haugland, a fixture of CFCF’s newscast for almost a half-century and the long-time anchor of Pulse News, retired from the anchor’s chair two years ago, CTV’s Montreal station made a big...
View ArticleTVA renews Vlog for third season
If Dominic Arpin looks happy here, it’s because I’ve taken a file photo and used it out of context as filler art to tell you that TVA has renewed his weekly web video clips show Vlog for a third...
View ArticleCRTC Roundup: Hands off our InterTubes
The big news is the CRTC’s decision to extend its hands-off policy regarding regulation of content on the Internet. The decision, which is explained in some detail point-by-point, was praised by...
View ArticleLaunch parties-o-rama (UPDATED)
Not having been invited the time to attend all the fall launch parties being put on by the radio and TV people over the last little while, I’m pleased to see that most of them are briefly summarized in...
View ArticleSérie Montréal-Québec: Flawless, says Journal
On Sunday, TVA debuted its newest Sunday-night populist attention-getter, the Série Montréal-Québec, in which 16 players from each city (each including two women, one guy over 40 and one guy over 50)...
View ArticleRue Frontenac on TVA
LCN’s website posted a story yesterday about Haitian prison escapee sneaking back into Quebec with evacuees. The Rue Frontenac kids protest that they broke the same story 10 days ago and the LCN story...
View ArticleTVA journalist fired for plagiarizing Rue Frontenac
You probably didn’t know until this week about a journalist named Stéphane Malhomme. It’s OK, though, because two years out of journalism school, and a month into a job as a web editor for Canoe, his...
View ArticleEthics don’t matter on TV
A couple of disturbing stories have come to light recently about Quebec television broadcasters’ attempts to censor things that might affect their bottom line. The first was the revelation from La...
View ArticleSun News Network 2012 debate translation highlights
This marks the second provincial election campaign in which TVA has decided to separate itself from the consortium that organizes televised leaders’ debates and go it alone with a series of one-on-one...
View ArticleHow the new TVA Nouvelles saved journalism
Tonight was the premiere of a new format for TVA Nouvelles’s flagship 10pm newscast (you can watch the whole thing here). Trying to find a new model that was different from the boring single-anchor TV...
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