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Netflix Canada to compete with on-demand content
The trumpets are sounded. The battle is on. Netflix has launched a Canadian movie and TV series subscription service at $7.99 a month, in competition with Canuck broadcaster and cable websites lately ramping up their free on-demand content.
Netflix here for $8 a month
In a move likely to strike fear among Canadian broadcasters, Netflix Canada launched Wednesday with an Internet movie and TV series subscription service priced at $7.99 a month.
$30 million bid for social media translator
Interactive content producer Intertainment Media has received an unsolicited US$30 million bid for its upstart social media translator division Ortsbo.
AMC zombie drama rights to eOne
Entertainment One has acquired the international distribution rights to the AMC zombie drama The Walking Dead from Fox International Channels.
TVA Group gets funny with QuebeComm
Quebec broadcaster TVA Group has acquired a non-verbal TV series made up of around 1000 comic mini-clips, or 39 half-hours of content, to be produced over three years.
Green Heroes go to MIP
Joan Prowse sees green in webisodes. Lots of it.
Netflix to unveil Canadian services
Canadian broadcasters and other content carriers take note: around 37% of American Netflix subscribers between 25 and 34 years-old substitute the video streaming and DVD rental service for a cable or satellite TV package, according to a new Credit Suisse poll and industry study.
Lifeforce tees off golf themed web series
Indie producer Lifeforce Entertainment is making a golf-themed drama for TV and the web.
Financing, rights ownership must change, says Bolen
Changes need to happen across financing for all media, said Norm Bolen – and they need to happen now if they’re going to be successful.
CTV’s prime time goes digi
Viewers will be able to find almost all of the network’s prime-time programming on its website this fall, a digital first for the net. A new video player will debut alongside.
Cookie Jar’s video streaming goes mobile
Cookie Jar’s recently launched kids video streaming site is moving into the mobile space.
Showcase animates Lost Girl
Showcase.ca launches an interactive motion comic as part of its digital promotion of the new original series Lost Girl.
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