Pulling dvc black boxes out of theory and into reality, Shaw Communications’ rollout of 30,000 smart dark cubes in Calgary this fall is not considered training ground for new specialty services….

Galgary, Alta.: If the broadcasting year plays out as the majority say it should – wic with a licence to cover Ontario, Baton landing Vancouver, and CanWest in Alberta so the three major homegrown networks have equal distribution opportunities in Canada’s…

Calgary, Alta.: Producers big and small gathered for ringside seats at the Alberta hearings mid-month to debate microcosm versus macrocosm….

The First Cut winners announced and celebrated this week must be making all the right moves. Talented, production savvy, politically salient and willing to take some chances, those who trained the wonder-young did a damn fine job….

If the latest events in the never-ending tale of the Canadian direct-to-home satellite industry are any indication, compromising Canadian cultural policy has become a necessary part of the process of getting a homegrown dth service in the air….

Hearings for a new Alberta broadcasting service begin July 15 with all the established Canadian nets stampeding to Calgary to add a host of sky-is-falling arguments to the week-long process….

Two years after the crtc shut CanWest and the Craigs out of the Alberta market, broadcasting ceos Izzy Asper and Stuart Craig are back on the bull, pitching for a new regional service with night-and-day applications that are dividing the already…

Ottawa, March 1995. The big angular building at 140 Rue de Promenade de Portage, in the Outaouais Room, better known as the hearings chamber in which which crtc chairman Keith Spicer had spent a good piece of the last six years….

Banff, Alta: As usual at the Banff Television Festival, about the only ones working up a tangible stress level are the independent producers. Busy pitching, schmoozing and generally making merry with the broadcasters and funding agencies that can kick projects from…

In search of national program rights, Alberta hearings beginning in July, and the ’96/97 season launch two weeks away, this year’s l.a. screenings are more than just an exercise in gold chains and crantinis for WIC Western International Communications….

When tvontario veteran Bill Roberts announced in March he was leaving the educational broadcaster to take over as secretary general of nanba, the first reaction for many (after the ‘jumping a sinking ship’ rhetoric) was, ‘What’s a nanba?’…

Summer. Finally. Bugs, barbecues, and the Banff Television Festival, the annual trek west to play, pitch, and work in some serious relationship building high in the Alberta Rockies with colleagues, national and international….