Broadcast Delivery

Here is how the work lines up. Broadcast delivery for Canadian productions is shaped by the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) technical specs and the published Tech-Ops sheets of each network. CBC and Radio-Canada accept XDCAM HD 50Mbps and ProRes 4444 XQ masters in MXF wrappers with ATSC A/85 -24 LKFS loudness, bilingual EN/FR caption tracks in CEA-708, and segmented timing that matches the network's commercial-break pattern.

CTV, Global, Citytv, Omni, and the Quebec networks — TVA, Noovo, Télé-Québec — each keep their own variant, and APTN deliveries for Indigenous-language programming layer Inuktitut, Cree, and Anishinaabe audio and caption tracks alongside the English and French primary. We coordinate the master through DNEG, Pixomondo, Tattersall, or MELS Post depending on which conform suite carried the project, and we handle Cancon point documentation for any title delivering under CMF (Canada Media Fund) Convergent, Performance, Production, or Indigenous stream rules.

Audio masters are built to match the network: 2.0 stereo and 5.1 surround at ATSC A/85 loudness for primetime broadcast, Dolby Digital and Dolby E encoding where the carrier needs it, and Dolby Atmos plus Auro 11.1 immersive masters for theatrical-broadcast crossover events like TIFF galas, Hot Docs opening nights, and the VIFF live-broadcast workflow.

Subtitle deliverables ship in CEA-608 / CEA-708 closed-caption form, IMSC1 for IP delivery, and SCC / ITT where needed, with bilingual EN/FR mandatory for CBC, Radio-Canada, and any CMF-funded title and a separate forced-story track authored for productions with Inuktitut, Cree, or Anishinaabe dialogue passages. Every package ships with a full AutoQC report covering safe-action / safe-title compliance, V-chip rating, loudness measurement, and CRTC closed-captioning conformance so the broadcaster's master-control engineers can ingest on first try.