Alberta Media Moves for May 2012
Recent postings for radio personnel on the Milkman Unlimited website include Newcap Television seeking a Weekend News Anchor / Reporter for Newcap Television in Lloydminster, Alberta. Application deadline: May 4/12. Apply to: Stacey Commer, Mgr. of News & Information Services, Newcap Lloydminster, scommer@newcap.ca. Newcap is also looking for a new member for it Marketing Team in Northeast Alberta! Application deadline: May 18, 2012 and also seeking a marketing consultant for its Red Deer stations. Application deadline: May 12, 2012 via e-mail to Al Lucas, General Sales Manager, Newcap Radio – Alberta South, alucas@newcap.ca. Newcap’s KG Country 95-5 in Red Deer is looking to hire a Weekend Announcer. Application deadline is May 11th, 2012. Apply to: awhite@newcap.ca Read more 
Corus Radio Appoints Garry McKenzie as Regional General Manager for Calgary & Edmonton
Corus Entertainment announced the appointment of Garry McKenzie, Regional General Manager for Corus Radio Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg, effective April 2, 2012. In his new role, Garry will provide leadership, strategic direction and vision to Corus Radio’s three markets, bringing over 20 years of solid operating experience, a strong sales and marketing background and results-driven success to 10 radio stations. Most recently, Garry was General Manager, Corus Radio Vancouver, and prior to that, General Manager, Corus Radio Calgary. Before joining Corus, Garry was Vice President, Marketing and Sales for the Calgary Flames and has also held various marketing and sales management positions with Unilever Canada and General Foods. Read more
Alberta Media Moves: March 2012
Edmonton Corus General Manager Doug Rutherford handed in his resignation on February 29 effective the end of March 2012. Puget Sound Radio also reports that Corus has lost their General Sales Manager, Neil Cunningham and Boyd Leader, their Program Director, who all quit over the past six months. Corus is not the only Alberta radio broadcaster losing big guns. Kevin McKenna, General Manager of Rogers in Calgary also quit in February. With the sale of Hot 107 FM in Edmonton to Harvard Broadcasting, Russell James has returned to the position of Program Director for The Bounce. Read more
Media Moves for December 2011
Scott Fee joined the Global Calgary Morning News crew on November 9. Born and raised in Vancouver Scott has been a top tier anchor at Victoria’s CHEK-TV for about five years. View Scott Fee’s inaugural broadcast during which he describes his connection to Edmonton and now Calgary. According to Global’s website, “his career has taken him all around Western Canada, with stops in Kamloops, Vancouver, Edmonton and most recently Victoria. Scott has performed in a wide range of roles since jumping into broadcasting with stints as a producer, videographer, reporter, and over the last several years, an anchor for various stations. When not on the golf course or trying to get his mutt enough exercise, Scott loves to travel. Favourite travel spots of late: Costa Rica, the Arctic and Berlin”. Read more
Media Moves in Alberta November 2011
Shelley Youngblut left the Calgary Herald and her role as editor of Swerve magazine. She is replaced by Valerie Berenyi, who previously served as a senior news features reporter for the paper. Edmonton AM has a new pair of hosts starting Monday morning on CBX (Radio One). Lydia Neufeld returns to the CBX morning show after a 15 years absence and joining her is Rick Harp who moved to Edmonton from STREETZ 104.7 FM in Winnipeg, after previous stints at APTN Winnipeg, CKCU in Ottawa and beginning his career working on As It Happens in CBC Toronto in the mid-1990s. Emily Mertz has replaced Jennifer Martin on Alberta Primetime on CTV Two (formerly ACCESS TV) and shares co-hosting duties with Michael Higgins also the show’s senior producer. Read more
Alberta Media Moves for October 2011
Ara Adonian from UP! Calgary takes over PM Drive on Edmonton’s Bounce this November. Speculation has it current Bounce afternoon disc jockey Jake Ryan is off to Virgin in Calgary. No word yet on where Tara his former co-host at Up! Calgary is headed. Buzz Bishop in the new midday host at XL 103 (CFXL) in Calgary having moved up the dial from 90.3 FM AMP Radio (CKMP) and is now on air weekdays 10am – 2pm as of September 20th. Bryn Griffiths hits the airwaves on Sportsnet Radio FAN 960 in Calgary on September 16 when he begins co-hosting the PM show with Pat Steinburg. Peter Maher returned to the station in September 6. Read more
Golden West Broadcasting Applies to the CRTC for Fort Saskatchewan Radio Station Licence
Golden West Broadcasting, a Manitoba-based company expects to be broadcasting from a Fort Saskatchewan radio station in about a year if all goes well at a federal government hearing this past September. “While Fort Saskatchewan is part of the metro Edmonton area it is its own community,” said Lyndon Friesen, president of Golden West Radio. “We think it makes great sense to operate a local radio station that focuses on the news and information specific to residents of Fort Saskatchewan.” Golden West Radio, of Alton, MB, appeared before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on Sept. 16 for a hearing into its application to operate an 11,000-watt commercial radio station on the 107.9 FM frequency. Friesen said Golden West specializes in operating in small communities. The company’s 38 radio stations are located mainly in the prairie provinces. Read more
Media Moves in Alberta Reported to Me and by Others
Erinne Sevigny, long standing Managing Editor and President of Other Voices Edmonton’s Literary Magazine has officially stepped down and passed on all of her duties. I know this because Erinne and I are taking the same creative non-fiction writing workshop at MacEwan’s Writing Works program led by Kathy MacLean. It turns out that Kath, as she seems to preferred to be called, teaches creative writing, in the midst of publisher her next creative non fiction publication, prefers poety and is currently Writer in Residence for the Canadian Authors Association (Edmonton Branch) and has an office at Audrey’s Books. According to the Other Voices website, Marcia, their new President, has past experience working with not for profit organizations as well as previous board and grant-writing experience and has been volunteering with Other Voices in the reading collectives and as their grant-writer for the past year. Seems like the publication is in good hands. Read more
Lone Pine Publishing Acquires Company’s Coming Cookbooks in Edmonton
The big news in the media landscape in Alberta this month is the acquisition of Company’s Coming by Lone Pine Publishing, both of Edmonton. Sources tell me the purchase took place in November 2010 but was not officially announced until February 2011 and in May, the Lone Pine Publishing offices moved to the Company’s Coming offices at 2311 – 96 Street, between the Whitemud Freeway and Anthony Henday Drive. Company’s Coming has been publishing cookbooks in Edmonton for 25 years. They are now up to 100 books and published around the world. I am sure that many people in Alberta have at least one of these Company’s Coming cookbooks in their library. Read more
Media Moves at Edmonton Radio & TV Stations According to Marty
A tip of the hat to Marty Forbes from the Edmonton Sun for reporting in his May 16, 2011 column that Corey Klimm and Ami Amato have left Now FM in Edmonton for the Z95 in Toronto, that Al Ford has added programming to his operations manager position for Rogers as well as the programming of SONIC. No wonder he scooped up the Program Director of the Year this spring at Canadian Music Week. He made sure the odds were in his favour! Marty also answered a question asked by many: what happened to Seanna Collins and Ron Clark? He reported that Seanna is still freelancing, doing the Save-On-Foods commercials and pitch hitting on the Lorraine Mansbridge Show on Global Edmonton while Ron Clark is busy running his new contracting and landscaping business. Over at CTV Edmonton he notes that Carrie Doll is due back in June from her mat leave just in time for Erin Isfeld for hers (how’s that for job sharing?). Sharing the parenting duties is Joel Gotlib on paternity leave for baby number two. What’s in the water at CTV Edmonton?
Lynda Steele Says Goodbye to Global TV Edmonton and Hello to CTV Vancouver
On April 21, 2011 Lynda Steele anchored her last dinner newscast at Global TV Edmonton and on May 16, 2011 will be CTV Vancouver’s “On Your Side” consumer reporter. Read more
CTS TV in Edmonton is Seeking a Field Reporter/Promotions Coordinator
CTS TV in Edmonton is seeking a Field Reporter/Promotions Coordinator.
http://www.mediajobsearchcanada.com/job_view.asp?jobID=21061
Marilyn
Jones is a corporate and social media advocate for individuals, small businesses
and nonprofit organizations in Alberta. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada and is the proprietor of RiverCity Productions. You can contact her
by phone at 780-695-5675 or by email at marilyn@mediamag.ca.