Cartt.ca Podcast

Join Bill Roberts (former president and CEO of VisionTV) in an exclusive Cartt.ca podcast with Conway as she talks about CBC host firings, the effect of the CRTC’s Let's Talk TV policies, staff cuts, the future of streaming content, CBC Radio 2, ad sales, NHL hockey and more. See above to click right to the 32-minute interview done at the CBC headquarters. (Ed note: As a busy executive, Conway doesn’t have a ton of free time for media, so our preamble you’ll read here is taken from a post-podcast interview Roberts did with her to finish up the line of questions he had, but ran out of time to ask – so you can either read it before, or after, listening to the podcast.) Heather Conway (pictured) walks a fine line in reconciling the aspirational needs of a creative and innovative CBC with the requirement to be both popular and accessible to the Canadian public. "There are quite a few guideposts,” according to Conway. "For example, legislation gives us a mandate to enlighten... but we have to be very cognizant a