Reduce the font size of the article Increase the font size of the article The 76th Primetime The Emmy Awards took place on Sunday evening, recognizing the the brightest and best of small screen hits. This year’s awards ceremony, hosted by Canadian father-son Schitt’s Creek co-stars Eugene and Dan Levy, was a double dose of The Emmy Awards in 2024, with last year’s September ceremony ultimately being postponed to January 2024 due to the 2023 Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes. And even though the stars walked the same red carpet less than a year ago, that didn’t stop them from showing up in a dazzling array of custom, made-to-measure couture gowns and dresses. Jewel tones took pride of place on this year’s red carpet, with red dresses and suits very much in vogue. Metallic dresses and embellishments were also a popular choice, and many stars wore thoughtful details that reflected their cultural heritage. The story continues below the advertisement This year’s awards offered a little something for every TV fan. In the end, Shogun The series won 18 Emmys Sunday night, including best drama series, earning the most Emmys of any series this year and breaking records for most wins in a single season. On the comedy side, the culinary drama led by Jeremy Allen White The bear won the top prize for a second year in a row, but lost the award for best comedy series to Tips. The bear won 11 Emmy Awards, setting a new record for the most wins in a single season for a comedy. Who else decided to walk the 2024 Emmy Awards red carpet? Keep scrolling to see some of the most daring and successful celebrity looks from the show. Dan Levy and Eugene Levy Emily Hampshire Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images Sas Goldberg Molly Gordon Saoirse Ronan Reese Witherspoon Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Ayo Edebiri Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre Elba Catherine O’Hara Christine Baranski Meryl Streep Gina Torres Amber Chardae Robinson Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Kaitlin Olson and Rob McElhenney Nakata Kurumi and Tadanobu Asano Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Jessica Gunning Elisabeth Debicki Kali King Brie Larson Paul Rudd Viola Davis Skye P. Marshall Sofia Vergara Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Liza Colon-Zayas Maya Rudolph Nava Mau Janelle James Kristen Wiig Bowen Yang Tyler James Williams Niecy Nash-Betts Rita Ora Hannah Einbinder Jon Hamm and Anna Osceola Nicola Coughlan Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Jeremy Allen White Jennifer Aniston Gillian Jacobs Mychal-Bella Bowman Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Greta Lee Naomi Watts Anna Lambe Tazbah Chavez Harvey Guillén Mindy Kaling Temple of Juno Anna Sawai Current trend As Parliament resumes, support for Trudeau hits ‘new low’: poll Donald Trump victim of assassination attempt at his golf club, according to the FBI D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai Abby Elliott Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Lisa Ann Walter Jean Leguizamo Knight Keltie Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images Laverne Cox Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images Ajwa Aljoudi Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images Bobby Berk Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images Richard Gadd Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Alan Cumming Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Chris Perfecti Quinta Brunson Youri Lamasbella Selena Gomez Gillian Anderson Dakota Fanning Aja Naomi King Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Migizi Pensoneau Hershii LiqCour-Jeté Taylor Zakhar Perez Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Dallas Gold Tooth Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Kalyd Odeh Sterlin Harjo Susan Kelechi Watson Isabella Star LaBlanc Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Devery Jacobs Miriam Leone Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Aaron Moten Ella Purnell Kristen Kish Katie Aselton Joshua Jackson Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Learn more about entertainment More videos © 2024 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. Source link

A new investigation Earlier this month, research revealed that streaming accounts for 84% of recorded music consumption revenue in the United States. I suspect that number is slightly lower in Canada, but we continue to embrace this technology more and more each month. Streaming is not only the future, but the present. When choosing a music streaming service, the options aren’t limited to the big four: Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Prime Music, and YouTube Music. There’s a second tier of platforms that includes Deezer, Qobuz, Tidal, SoundCloud, and Napster (the legal service officially known as Rhapsody). Going further, there’s 8Tracks, Tunein, AccuRadio, iHeartRadio, Boomplay, Jango, and maybe a dozen others. There is another segment that specializes in specific ethnicities and genres. JioSaavn and Gaana, for example, focus on Indian content, Patari caters to the Pakistani market, Moov is dedicated to Southeast Asian music, and Anghami is for the Arab world. IDAGIO is designed for classical music fans, while ROXi is for those who love karaoke. All draw on the same massive catalog of over 120 million digital tracks. The story continues below the advertisement In the West, most music fans stick with the Big Four. Spotify is the largest software company, with more than 600 million average monthly users (AMUs), about 246 million of whom pay a subscription fee that unlocks the full functionality of the app and user interface. (That’s slightly less than QQ Music, a joint venture between Spotify and Tencent, but that streaming service is primarily aimed at the global Chinese market.) Apple Music, Amazon Music, and the fast-growing YouTube Music each have about 100 million AMUs. Learn more about entertainment More videos Among all these choices, which one is best for you? It depends. What sets these platforms apart? Let’s take a closer look. The first question you need to ask yourself is, “Do I want to pay to listen to music?” If the answer is no, then you’re limited to “freemium” offerings from Spotify, iHeartRadio, and a limited library on Amazon. It doesn’t cost anything to listen, but you have to sit through ads multiple times an hour, and the app and desktop features are limited. Some artists are also known for not offering their music on free plans. Want all the features? Then you have to pay. Some streaming services are available worldwide, while others can’t travel outside of specific geographic territories due to the terms of their music licenses. If audio quality is important to you, Amazon, Tidal, Qobuz, and Deezer are among the companies that offer high-resolution streams, meaning music is delivered in CD quality or better. Apple offers Spatial Audio, which to my ears sounds pretty good. Spotify lags behind in this area, although it continues to promise to launch Spotify HiFi any day now. The story continues below the advertisement What differentiates streamers from each other? The look and feel of the app/desktop version. Some offer better lyrics and metadata than others. Search experiences can be wildly different. And, of course, there are the proprietary recommendation algorithms, each powered by their own arcane secrets. Let’s start there. Get the latest national news For news that impacts Canada and the world, sign up to receive breaking news alerts directly when it happens. Spotify has been annoying me lately because it seems to be pumping songs into my feed that I don’t want and don’t care to hear. As a rocker, why am I being fed songs that I don’t want to hear? Please, s… by Sabrina Carpenter? I’ve never intentionally named a Kendrick Lamar song, so why does Spotify sometimes push me in his direction? Some conspiracy theorists believe Spotify’s algorithm can be changed from “recommendation” to “promotion.” And if it is indeed a promotion, that means someone is paying for it. Who? Is this the new bribe? Another factor might be your personal code of ethics regarding compensating artists for their music. It’s… complicated. Every few years, every streamer has to negotiate licenses with rights holders, a process that involves record labels, publishers, copyright boards, distributors, aggregators, and collecting societies. Rights holders, who are supposed to have the musician’s best interests at heart, want to get the most out of streamers. Streamers, meanwhile, want to keep costs down. When rights holders take their cut, whatever’s leftover is passed on to the artist. These royalty payments also vary depending on the artist’s contract with their label and publisher. The story continues below the advertisement So how much are these payments? Google searches yield all sorts of figures. The average Spotify payout per stream is generally thought to be $0.003 to $0.005. Apple Music is said to pay between $0.007 and $0.01 per stream, with a promise pay up to 10 percent more to artists those who download music in Apple’s Spatial Audio format. Most others fall somewhere in between, with the exception of Tidal ($0.012 to $0.015 per stream) at the high end and YouTube Music at the very low end (a nanoscopic $0.00069 per stream). But it gets more complicated. You have to look at the methods used to split subscription revenue and ad revenue at the end of each month. Current trend Springfield, Ohio, faces second day of bomb threats after Trump’s ‘eating pets’ rant Pope criticizes Harris and Trump, asks American Catholics to vote for the ‘lesser evil’ Spotify uses a system called “Streamshare.” About two-thirds of every dollar Spotify collects goes to royalties. If you pay an average of $10 a month, three of those dollars go to Spotify and the other seven go to royalties. All of that money goes into a pool. Spotify then looks at how many times music owned or controlled by the various rights holders was streamed in a month. The company then divides the amount of money in the pool by the number of streams viewed by the rights holders in each market. If, for example, Universal Music owns the rights to 42% of all songs streamed in a given…

The ongoing controversy surrounding the documentary “Russians at War” has caught the attention of Ontario’s public broadcaster, which has said it will not air the film it helped fund. According to a media expert, TVO is suffering “the worst of the worst scenarios” by investing in a project that can no longer be broadcast or monetized. “TVO created something that its audience doesn’t see, that other audiences will see, and they paid the bill for it without receiving any reward,” Chris Arsenault, chair of Western University’s master’s program in journalism and communication, said in an interview. “I can’t imagine a worse outcome for a network than what happened.” “Russians at War,” a film criticized by the Ukrainian community and some Canadian politicians, was on the Toronto International Film Festival schedule until organizers suspended all screenings this week due to “significant threats” to the festival’s operations. The film, which recently screened at the Venice Film Festival and will be shown at the Windsor International Film Festival next month, shows the disillusionment of some Russian soldiers on the front lines of the war in Ukraine. The story continues below the advertisement 1:44 Canada ‘fully supports’ Ukraine’s long-range missile attack on Russia, Trudeau says TVO had planned to air the documentary in the coming months, but the network’s board of directors withdrew its support for the film on Tuesday, citing criticism it had received. The Ukrainian Canadian Congress, the Ukrainian consul general in Toronto and others have called the film Russian propaganda and a “whitewashing” of Russian military war crimes in Ukraine — accusations rejected by the film’s producers and TIFF. The announcement from TVO’s board comes just days after the network defended the film, calling it “pacifist.” The Documentary Organization of Canada said the move “poses a serious threat” to media independence and raises questions about political interference. Get the latest national news For news that impacts Canada and the world, sign up to receive breaking news alerts directly when it happens. TVO did not respond to requests for comment, and board chair Chris Day declined to provide further details on the decision to pull the film. “Suffice it to say, we have heard significant concerns and we have responded to them,” Day wrote to The Canadian Press in an email response to an interview request. The story continues below the advertisement Arsenault, who has not seen the documentary and cannot comment on its content, said he is nonetheless concerned about the specter of board intervention in independent editorial decisions, which he said “opens the door” to further interference in the production of documentaries and journalism. “Russians at War,” a French-Canadian co-production, was financed in part by the Canada Media Fund, which provided $340,000 to the project through its broadcast envelope program. A spokesperson for the fund said TVO chose to use the money independently to support the documentary’s production. Cornelia Principe, one of the film’s producers, said TVO also had to pay broadcast rights to air the documentary. Those rights can range from $50,000 to $100,000, she said. Learn more about Toronto More videos Principe, who defended the documentary and its Canadian-Russian director Anastasia Trofimova, said she was shocked by the TVO board’s decision. “Anastasia and I have been working on this project with TVO for two and a half years… I was kind of out of it for hours. I couldn’t believe it.” What happens next, she said, is “uncharted territory” for TVO. “To my knowledge, this has never happened before,” said Principe, who has worked with the television network on various documentaries over the years. TVO’s board said the network would “review the process by which this project was funded and our brand was enhanced.” The story continues below the advertisement 2:36 Russia-Ukraine: Strike on Lviv leaves at least 7 dead, including 4 members of the same family Current trend Elderly Halifax couple forced to live in tent ‘extremely happy and grateful’ with apartment Pope criticizes Harris and Trump, asks American Catholics to vote for the ‘lesser evil’ Charlie Keil, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Film Studies, said TVO’s board needs to explain why it used “a kind of sledgehammer” on a film that appears to have been properly vetted editorially. “It seems to me that if TVO executives were honest, they would say, ‘There’s a lot of pressure now. We don’t really like it. … We’re just going to walk away,’” Keil said in an interview. Ontario Education Minister Jill Dunlop said in a statement that the decision by the TVO board “was the right thing to do,” but did not provide further details. As a non-profit government agency, TVO has a mandate to distribute educational materials and programs, but the ministry is not involved in its broadcasting arm due to CRTC licensing rules. The story continues below the advertisement Another public broadcaster, British Columbia’s Knowledge Network, confirmed that it had contributed $15,000 in licensing fees to “Russians at War” so it could serve as a “second window” broadcaster for the film. Asked whether the documentary would still air at some point in British Columbia, a network spokesperson said it was “working on a public response.” Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has denounced the use of public funds for “Russians at War,” saying she shares the “grave concerns” raised by Ukrainian officials and community members in Canada about the film. The Ukrainian Canadian Congress said it would continue to protest “Russians at War” after TIFF said it would still screen the documentary at some point. A peaceful march and protest that headed to the TIFF Lightbox Friday afternoon saw people place sunflowers and photos of Ukrainians killed in the war on the sidewalk. The documentary “Russians at War” will screen at the Windsor International Film Festival, which runs from October 24 to November 3. The festival announced Friday that the documentary is among 10 nominees for the $25,000 WIFF Canadian Film Award. “We hope that all of our nominees –…

Chad McQueen, an actor known for his performances in the Karate Kid films and the son of the late actor and racing driver Steve McQueendied. He was 63 years old. McQueen’s attorney and friend Arthur H. Barens confirmed to The Associated Press that he died Wednesday. The cause of death has not been released. His wife Jeanie and children Chase and Madison shared a statement on Instagram Thursday afternoon from McQueen’s verified account, announcing the news of his death with “heavy hearts.” “His remarkable journey as a loving father to us, along with his unwavering commitment to our mother, perfectly exemplifies a life filled with love and dedication. His passion for racing not only showcased his exceptional talent, but also served to honor his father’s legacy, a testament to the values ​​instilled in him,” the statement read. The story continues below the advertisement “He passed on to us his passion, knowledge and dedication and we will continue not only his legacy but also that of our grandfathers,” the statement continued. Receive daily national news Get the day’s top political, business and current affairs news delivered to your inbox once a day. The family has asked for privacy as they “remember and celebrate her extraordinary life.” McQueen followed in his father’s footsteps, pursuing a career as both an actor and a race car driver. He became famous for his role as Dutch, the antagonist in the 1984 film The Karate Kidand its sequel two years later. Current trend How tariffs on Chinese semiconductors and batteries could affect Canadian wallets Researchers Discover Doritos Dye Makes Mice Translucent. Will Humans Be Next? Learn more about entertainment More videos Although he starred in several films after the hit action franchise, including New York Police Officer, The wasters And Red lineHe then focused more on racing than on movies and eventually founded McQueen Racing, a company that creates custom cars, motorcycles and accessories. His son Chase, who also races, and his daughter Madison now run the company. “I didn’t find acting fun anymore,” McQueen told The Associated Press in a 2005 interview. “So I decided to commit myself fully to racing.” McQueen raced professionally for years, competing in the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Daytona before suffering a series of driving injuries. His work with McQueen Racing was intended to preserve and perpetuate his father’s legacy. McQueen also produced two documentaries about his father: I am Steve McQueen And Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans. The story continues below the advertisement McQueen was the only son of his father and mother, Neile Toffel. He had a sister, Terry, who died of respiratory failure at the age of 38 in 1998. He is survived by his wife Jeanie and three children, Chase, Madison and Steven, who is an actor best known for Vampire Diaries. Curator’s Recommendations 10 Terrifying Halloween Lawn Decorations (Ranked in Order of Scariness!) Beautify Your Space With These Fall Interior Favorites © 2024 The Canadian Press Source link