CableACE winners

The National Academy of Cable Programming honored the best in original American cable television programming at the 16th annual CableACE Awards in l.a. on Jan. 15.

Sullivan Entertainment’s Road to Avonlea came away with two Cableaces, winning for best dramatic series and best writing in a dramatic series, Heather Conkie for the episode, ‘Memento Mori.’

Other Canadian winners were: Associated Producers’ Deadly Currents, a documentary investigating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for international informational special or series, and Cinar Films’ comedy/ drama series Chris Cross for children’s programming series (seven and older).

Cancom renewed, butÉ

The crtc has issued a three-year licence renewal for Canadian Satellite Communications, extending its term to Aug. 31, 1998. It also reduced the maximum monthly fee that Cancom is able to charge cable companies for delivery of its signal package. In turn, the cable companies plan to pass the reduced cost of transmitting via digital video compression down to the consumer.

At the same time, the commission denied a proposal by Chamcook Communications to deliver u.s. network signals to the Atlantic provinces by satellite.