Category 1 applicant wetv has an unusually large brief for the specialty channel it’s pitching: a network focused on saving the world….

Areas of strength have guided Kaleidoscope’s 11 Category 2 digital specialty applications (all wholly owned by the Toronto company). For example, the application for GTV: The Girls’ Network was inspired by its business to date and by the fact that, they…

Great North Communications president Andy Thomson is adamant that Prairie production will not be affected by Alliance Atlantis Communications’ purchase of the Edmonton-based company last month, even though as a result of the deal Thomson has been appointed exec vp of…

A reel full of spots no one could understand won First Cut finalist Alexandra Dellevoet a place in the Canadian commercial directing community….

Credo Entertainment’s historical docusoap Pioneer Quest: A Year in the Life of the Real West ran into potential disaster when half the series’ star power had to pull out within 24 hours of the series commencing….

First Cut finalist Jeremy Lynch has always wanted to be a spot director….

About 10 years ago, digital technology took the world of sound and sound design and turned it upside down. Now digital is everywhere. So is digital technology homogenizing sound design? Thomas Neuspiel of Toronto’s Keen Music Voice & Sound Design is…

It’s been a long time coming: a draft of the cftpa/cbc Terms of Trade Agreement is due for an airing before the cftpa board at the Banff Television Festival….

Crashbox, created for HBO Family, is described by Cuppa Coffee executive producer and president Adam Shaheen as ‘a non-traditional [game] show for kids from eight to 12’ that differs from other game shows in that it is education-based, with questions drawn…

A man who ends up dismembering his younger self in the name of art might seem an odd plot for any tv show, but for anthology series The Hunger, the episode that culminates in that artistic suicide has resulted in a…

Since its inception 15 years ago, the Banff Television Festival’s International Market Simulation has grown into a must-attend event that has spawned similar programs at various conferences around the world….

Since its inception 15 years ago, the Banff Television Festival’s International Market Simulation has grown into a must-attend event that has spawned similar programs at various conferences around the world….