Free Republic

Keean Bexte @TheRealKeean BREAKING: CTV News field reporter has some sort of medical emergency on camera. Unrelated: Bell owns CTV.

For years, growth in video advertising has driven overall programmatic display growth. Advertiser demand for video impressions has always outstripped supply, but supply has gotten a big boost as consumers started adopting streaming video viewing in larger numbers—especially on connected TV (CTV) devices—and more of those impressions have been made available programmatically. The pandemic supercharged the consumer behavior side, and many sources we interviewed mentioned dramatic increases in the number of available CTV video impressions. We estimate advertisers spent an additional $1.16 billion on programmatic CTV video ads in 2020 compared with 2019, and incremental spending in 2021 will increase...

OTTAWA -- The Federal Government is set to introduce a bill that would give Alberta, B.C., and Ontario extra seats in the House of Commons. The bill to be tabled Wednesday would add 22 seats to the Commons, which currently has only 308. It would give Alberta five extra seats, while B.C. gets seven and Ontario receives 10. These provinces would get more seats after the 2011 census to reflect their population growth. Provinces whose growth is static or even dwindling would keep the seats they have now. The bill is essentially an amendment to the Constitution, but because it...

With voting day on Monday, stagnant national poll numbers mask some interesting movement among voters in parts of B.C., Ontario and Quebec, says a new poll. The latest poll by the Strategic Counsel for CTV and The Globe and Mail again finds a 10-point gap nationally between the Conservatives and Liberals (percentage point change from a Jan. 17-19 poll in brackets): * Conservatives: 37 per cent (-1) * Liberals: 27 per cent (-1) * NDP: 18 per cent (+1) * Bloc Quebecois: 11 per cent (unchanged) * Greens: 6 per cent (-1) For the question of a majority or minority...

Poland demands Ottawa censure CTV over 'insult' OTTAWA - Poland has asked the Canadian government to take action against broadcaster CTV for refusing to apologize to viewers for referring to a Nazi German concentration camp in Poland as a "Polish camp."

Pop star Michael Jackson is again at the centre of a police investigation. About 20 officers searched his California ranch on Tuesday as part of an ongoing but undisclosed criminal investigation. Jackson was not home. Cable channel Court TV said the investigation stems from allegations of sexual abuse brought by a 12-year-old boy against the 45-year-old Jackson. Up to 70 investigators from the Santa Barbara County sheriff's and district attorney's offices entered Jackson's sprawling Neverland Ranch outside of Santa Barbara on Tuesday morning. No immediate arrests were made. Court TV reporter Diane Dimond, who is on the scene, says a...

TV networks ready their arsenals for next war As military action in Iraq looms, news organizations are preparing for massive coverage and a costly battle for viewers, GAYLE MacDONALD and WILLIAM HOUSTON write GAYLE MacDONALD and WILLIAM HOUSTON Saturday, March 1, 2003 Turn on cable TV and the U.S. war with Iraq is more or less a fait accompli.On CNN, the banners scream: "Showdown: Iraq." At rival MSNBC, there's a slight twist: "Showdown with Saddam." On scrappy Fox News, it's: "Target Iraq: Disarming Saddam."Talk to network executives here or south of the border, and it's not a question of...