The ink on the proposal is barely dry, but already would-be station owners are circling CanWest Global Communications’ new assets….

While the asset shifts of Shaw Communications, wic, Netstar and CanWest are in the news, sources say the vultures are circling the CTV Network….

A regulatory shift, following the Canadian Television Policy Review hearing, could see the number of hours of Canadian drama, children’s and variety programming in primetime more than doubling in the next two years….

Producers and broadcasters waiting for the September portion of the Licence Fee Program could be waiting in vain….

Electric Entertainment’s 1998/99 production season could see the magazine-format prodco expanding into fiction….

Steel City Productions is in development with Stand Up Guys, a $1.8-million action/comedy feature film about five stand-up comics thwarted in their attempt to rob a bank….

With six specialty licensees on deck, the broadcasters are waxing subtle in interventions filed to the crtc on Shaw Communications’ 48% purchase of Headline Sports….

Broadcasters big and small, producers public and private, lobby bodies with usually antagonistic agendas – the answer, for the last four months, is all the same. Inevitably somewhere in the interview – topic be damned – comes a variation on the…

Although 20/20 clipped its wings opening night, the Atlantis Films/Keatley MacLeod-produced Cold Squad took its Friday night time slot with the second episode and substantially increased its audience in key demographics….

Park City, Utah: Kurt Cobain and Canadian director Bruce Sweeney are rarely folded into the same sentence. But at Sundance, where the fabulous, the freaks and the filmmakers runneth over, a parade of perfect teeth and footwear wholly inappropriate for three…

*Traders moves to early prime on CBC winter sked…

Six weeks after indigenous drama was a topic of choice at the national networks hearing, the Department of Finance is in the process of passing legislation which could result in programming controlled by foreign producers occupying Cancon-allocated airtime….