DTH provider Star Choice, along with Sat-Tel Corp. of Red Deer, AB, have launched AgCast Canada, a new data network featuring up-to-the-minute agricultural information to farmers across the country….

The Molson Companies filed a lawsuit Dec. 9 with the Federal Court of Appeal alleging that its contract to sell its 20% interest in CTV Sportsnet to Rogers Broadcasting became null and void when the crtc denied the Rogers application to…

Sharon Blank has been appointed executive director of the Shaw Broadcasting Funds….

The creative team behind the long-running cbc radio comedy Rumours and Boarders, has scored a development deal with the national public broadcaster to morph the radio hit into a tv sitcom….

Experience in underwater photography, dramatic recreations, science documentaries, archeological digs and being a ‘preferred producer’ of Discovery Communications projects has paid off in spades for Toronto’s CineNova Productions….

Two of the most critically acclaimed films produced in Canada this year, Manon Briand’s 2 Secondes and Denis Villeneuve’s 32 Aout sur terre, were not entered in this year’s Genie Awards because their producer wants to draw attention to the lack…

In what marked the first meeting between the two associations in history, the Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters and the Motion Picture Theatre Associations of Canada got together late last month in Toronto and devised five key initiatives to…

Capitalizing on controversy surrounding the film’s release in India, Behaviour Communications will rerelease Deepa Mehta’s Fire, beginning this Friday, in three Canadian cities, Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary….

Sitting just over the horizon for the ctf board is the as-yet unresolved question of private broadcasters being allowed to distribute eip-funded shows….

With a wrap date scheduled for Dec. 19, production is underway in Toronto on New Blood, a feature thriller from local production company Apple Creek Communications and Spice Factory of the u.k….

A production deal of massive proportions by Canadian and even u.s. standards between Robert Lantos and Alliance Atlantis Communications will see the former Alliance ceo receive a $25,000 per episode producer fee from two tv shows and could result in a…

In a move that will delay the reporting of revenues from film and tv projects for up to a full year, Alliance Atlantis Communications has changed its accounting policies to more closely reflect the standards of the u.s. Financial Accounting Standards…