The Canadian Television Fund will dole out $285 million to producers and broadcasters for 2009/10 — an increase of about $10 million over last year — as Broadcaster Performance Envelopes were unveiled on Wednesday.

English-language TV will receive the lion’s share of the money at $194 million, while the funder allocated $91 million to the French side. Genres supported by the fund are drama, children’s and youth, variety and performing arts, and documentary.

The CTF has designated $98 million for English drama, compared to $88 million last year, followed by children’s and youth with $32 million. Documentaries collected $28 million, while variety and performing arts received $3 million. Drama is also the largest recipient on the French side at $41 million.

As usual, independent productions airing on CBC are the top collector of CTF cash at $71 million, with $47 million earmarked for drama. The second-largest envelope belongs to CTV’s main network at $16 million — on par with last year — followed by Canwest’s Global and E! networks, and its specialty channel Showcase with $10 million each. Astral Media’s Family Channel obtained $9 million.

Meanwhile, Radio-Canada, with $33 million, commands most of the money on the French side, followed by TVA with $21 million, and cabler Canal D with $5 million.

Canadian Heritage this week announced that the CTF and digital-oriented Canada New Media Fund will be combined into the Canada Media Fund by April 2010.