Drained champagne bottles mark the first week of September as 23 new specialty channel licensees nurse celebration aftermaths and begin the practical processes of getting the services – guaranteed to sink a minimum of $17 million into Canadian programming over the…

A month after Joel Roodman and New York’s Ark Pictures announced $10 million available in film production financing dollars, more millions are in the offing for the indie community via another transplanted Canadian….

With its long-term debt coming due this month, WIC Western International Communications is facing the banks with greater confidence following the approval of its pitch for extended Ontario distribution….

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Former Alliance exec Gord Haines has resurfaced in the industry, taking controlling interest in both Owl Communications and Mackerel Interactive Multimedia and creating an edutainment hot shop which will see Owl Television doubling its production slate this year and breaking into…

After a choppy two years, Paragon Entertainment wraps fiscal 1996 with revenues, margins and earnings showing improvement across the board over fiscal ’95….

Vancouver: Cards are on the table for a new Vancouver broadcasting service, with Baton Broadcasting offering up a most generous application sweetener of $20 million per year on at least two primetime Canadian drama series, if it finds itself the chosen…

Already feeling program supply pools dwindling, Canada’s latest batch of specialty services are heading into their second broadcast year confident independent production won’t feel the impact of a pending change in licence conditions which could mean less money in the crtc-regulated…

With the calendar lurching towards the September deadline for a Canada-generated program classification system, all is reportedly not tranquil on the v-chip front….

Transplanted Canuck producer Joel Roodman, together with production partners in New York, has announced the creation of a $10 million funding pool available to independent feature filmmakers….

On the other side of its $30 million investment in 1996 Summer Olympics rights, the cbc, boosted by the International Olympics Committee’s new rules, scored ratings gold for the two weeks through Aug. 4 with eyeballs consistently eclipsing ctv’s ’94 Barcelona…

Under the leadership of former tvontario exec Bill Roberts, the North American National Broadcasters Association is stepping up pressure on the u.s. Congress to end the use of journalists as covers for international espionage, and is asking Canada and Mexico to…