Rogers On Demand Online: Meh.
A few days ago, I got an email from a social media marketing guy at Rogers, inviting me to participate in a sneak preview of the Rogers On Demand Online service being launched on Monday (see coverage...
View ArticleThe ho-hum Bye-Bye
It's tradition in Quebec media to review each year's end-of-year special from Radio-Canada, the Bye-Bye. It went a bit crazy two years ago when Véronique Cloutier and Louis Morissette decided to take...
View ArticleGlobal’s national morning show: Not worth waking up for
On Monday, Global television debuted its new national morning show. It was kind of a surprise announcement before Christmas (unlike the local morning shows in Montreal and Halifax, which we've been...
View ArticleGlobal Montreal Morning News: Getting better, but still plenty of kinks
"I think people should give the show a chance." That's what Leah Lipkowitz, a columnist with Global Montreal's Morning News, commented on the review I gave the show earlier this month. I'd heard the...
View ArticleReview: Montreal Connected is welcome, but needs some work
Montreal Connected, the weekly sports show that airs on City Montreal, has five episodes under its belt. So now seems as good a time as any to review it. If you haven't seen it yet, segments from the...
View ArticleReview: Only in Montreal is an entertaining window into the city’s life (but...
We’re seven episodes into the 30-episode first season of Only in Montreal, the weekly local lifestyle series that airs on City TV. That’s about a quarter of the way through, so it’s time for a review....
View ArticleComparative review: Global Montreal’s Morning News vs. City Montreal’s...
Tuesday, Jan. 28, marks the first anniversary of Global Montreal’s Morning News, the first of two local English-language TV morning shows that launched in Montreal in 2013. The second, City Montreal’s...
View ArticleReview: Our Montreal is an embarrassing collection of recycled content
In the spring of 2013, when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved a new licence for the CBC that set a minimum amount of non-news local programming for major markets,...
View ArticleA white guy’s review of Mohawk Girls
Tuesday night was the first time most people in the Montreal area got to see the new TV series Mohawk Girls, a “dramedy” produced by Tracey Deer that is set and produced in Kahnawake and airs on OMNI...
View ArticleCTV’s Your Morning: A formulaic morning show that misses chances to inform
YOUR MORNING is a new approach to morning television. The series will deliver an original perspective and unique insight into the stories of the day, while showcasing lifestyle topics of interests to...
View ArticleFirst look: CTV News Montreal at 5
For the past two weeks, CTV Montreal has had an additional hour of local news on weekdays. First announced in June, the new newscasts precede the usual 6pm news on most CTV stations, including...
View ArticleReview: CTV’s The Launch is an interesting concept with some implementation...
If you haven’t heard about this new music competition series on CTV called The Launch, then there are some heartbroken people at Bell Media, because they’ve been pulling out all the stops promoting it....
View ArticleReview: Noovo Le Fil does news differently, with some familiar cost-cutting
In the lead-up to its launch on March 29, Noovo (formerly V, formerly TQS) hyped that its new daily newscast called Le Fil would be, above all else, different. Different in how it told stories (longer,...
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