With three months to build audience before spring sweeps, invasion of the mid-season replacements is already underway….

Commissioned by both Industry and Heritage, the final copy of the Wall Communications study of Canadian feature film policy framework has been filed, the latest contribution to the PolyGram Filmed Entertainment debate….

Among the Christmas specials, interviews with the Duchess, and the Grey Cup game infiltrating the ratings charts mid-November sweeps, new contenders are finding their way into a regular spot in the Canadian primetime top 10….

The specialty channel distribution and packaging quandary will take on new dimensions this week as broadcasters and the cable companies file their requests for amendments to the lists of Eligible Satellite Services….

– Saturday night’s alright for WIC…

As advertiser interest in children’s programming increases and commercial broadcasters’ efforts in the children’s programming realm heats up, the resulting highly competitive market has created branding mania, with some positive side effects for kids’ show producers….

Edmonton: The Canadian Association of Broadcasters Conference’s keynote speaker Frank Feather broke from his prepared text on the future of the communications business only once at last weekend’s annual cab festivities, stopping mid futurist’s tirade to tell the industry to stop…

About six weeks into the new fall season and the Canadian ACNielsen top 10 ratings charts are a virtual prototype of last year….

It’s one more reason to be Alberta-bound this year as the Canadian Association of Broadcasters prepares to dust up Edmonton and launch the largest ever of its annual conventions….

Vancouver: Regional sensibilities took a back seat to the broadcasters’ structural agenda in Alberta, but it’s all eyes on Vancouver in this round of crtc hearings with pitches for new tv licences in Canada’s second largest and fastest growing English-language market….

With two months until its pitch for entry into Quebec is before the crtc, CanWest Global Communications has filed an amendment to the application which commits an extra $4 million a year for Canadian drama and entertainment production and turns its…

While seven new specialties prep to hit the screens next September, startup plans for the remaining 15 are coming together like a handful of mercury….