*CHUM’s Pulse 24 cable-bound…

The Directors Guild of Canada is heading into the November national network hearings prepared to fight for a baseline 7% of gross revenue from the private broadcasters for Canadian drama and other underrepresented programming genres….

Less than a month before the next batch of specialty channels and the particulars in play are mesmerizing….

Martin Bockner, a career Canadian film distributor and a key executive of the original team behind Astral Communications, succumbed to emphysema five days before the Toronto International Film Festival. He was 70….

Paragon Entertainment Corporation has secured a new line of feature film and television production financing worth up to $45 million which will, in part, be available to third party independent producers….

Martin Bockner, a career Canadian film distributor and a key executive of the original team behind Astral Communications, succumbed to emphysema five days before the Toronto International Film Festival. He was 70….

Paragon Entertainment Corporation has secured a new line of feature film and television production financing worth up to $45 million which will, in part, be available to third-party independent producers….

Bell Canada’s $12-million new media fund is off the mark Sept. 10 aiming to jump-start the convergence of the broadcasting and multimedia industries….

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In a fine phoenix impersonation, Owl Television is rising from the ashes buoyed by the considerable strength of Quebec’s Coscient Group. Five projects in development at Owl, including two with national and international broadcasters on board before the bankruptcy of Combined…

*Creatures great and small…

Mike Medavoy doesn’t know what he’s going to say yet….