{"id":3363,"date":"2018-04-03T08:07:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=fb22efa8268258ed71a4f66c2697218a"},"modified":"2018-04-03T08:07:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:07:47","slug":"catherine-tait-is-to-become-the-first-woman-to-head-the-cbc-in-its-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/03\/catherine-tait-is-to-become-the-first-woman-to-head-the-cbc-in-its-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Tait is to become the first woman to head the CBC in its history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government is making a Canadian television and film executive the first woman to head the CBC\/Radio-Canada in the organization&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage Minister Melanie Joly will make the appointment of Catherine Tait official in an announcement this morning on Parliament Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Tait, 60, has worked in the film and television business in Canada and the United States for more than 30 years, including time at Telefilm Canada and as a former president of Salter Street Films, which produced a CBC mainstay, &#8220;This Hour Has 22 Minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/telecom\/the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle-canadian-broadcast-industry-clashes-over-regulations-in-netflix-era\">&#039;The genie is out of the bottle&#039;: Canadian broadcast industry clashes over regulations in Netflix era<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/telecom\/media\/torstar-hiring-20-reporters-as-it-rebrands-and-revamps-metro-urban-dailies\">Torstar hiring 20 reporters as it rebrands and revamps Metro urban dailies across Canada<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>People who have worked with Tait say she has a deep understanding of the domestic and international industry and describe her being unafraid to take risks.<\/p>\n<p>She lives in New York and is currently <a href=\"http:\/\/duopoly.net\/about-us\/\" rel=\"noopener\" >president of Duopoly<\/a>, a company that produces digital, television and film content.<\/p>\n<p>Tait&#8217;s appointment is the latest in a series of moves the Liberals have made at the public broadcaster that began in 2016 when it boosted funding to the CBC by $675 million over five years.<\/p>\n<p>The government also launched an overhaul last year of how members of the board of directors are chosen &#8212; a response to complaints that the selection process was open to political interference and did not reflect Canada&#8217;s diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tait, who has 30 years experience in film and television, will be appointed as president today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}