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Juno Ratings Topped 1M Viewers

CBC’s two-hour March 17 broadcast of the 2019 Juno Awards from London’s Budweiser Gardens garnered an average minute audience of 1.2 million on CBC, CBC Radio One and CBC Music and a total audience

Juno Ratings Topped 1M Viewers

By FYI Staff

CBC’s two-hour March 17 broadcast of the 2019 Juno Awards from London’s Budweiser Gardens garnered an average minute audience of 1.2 million on CBC, CBC Radio One and CBC Music and a total audience reach of 4 million nationally, according to data supplied by the network.


Streaming platforms edged 14 percent higher than the 2018 edition in Vancouver, to 270,000 live and on-demand views on various platforms that included YouTube, Facebook, and CBC Gem.

Sarah McLachlan both hosted and performed on the telecast. Other performers on the night included Corey Hart, bülow, Cœur de Pirate, Loud Luxury, Jeremy Dutcher with Blake Pouliot, Loud, The Reklaws, Bahamas, NAV, and Whitehorse.

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Canadian Government Introduces Canada Creative Credit to Support 'Artistic Production'
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Canadian Government Introduces Canada Creative Credit to Support 'Artistic Production'

The Mark Carney government's new federal budget also confirms a $600 million investment to provide relief to the audiovisual sector for 2026-27, which was first announced in June.

Canada has built a new support for the creative sector into the new federal budget.

The Carney government's 2026 federal budget was tabled Thursday afternoon (Nov. 5), and it includes a new and forthcoming Canada Creative Credit, described as a tax relief "for Canadian artists to foster creativity, artistic production and cultural entrepreneurship." In a subsequent message posted to X, prime minister Mark Carney revealed that Canadian artists can benefit from an exception of up to $45,000.

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