The 6th annual Hot Docs festival will screen 50 Canadian films, culled from 300 submissions, which will compete for awards in 15 categories….

Calgary’s Shaw Communications is now free to sell its 48.75% interest in Sportscope Television Network, which operates specialty channel Headline Sports, an Ontario court has ruled….

Montreal: Francois Girard’s Le Violin Rouge/The Red Violin won nine Prix Jutras including best motion picture at the inaugural March 7 Quebec film awards gala….

Parroting its own similar successful initiatives in the western market, Shaw Cable has rebranded its community 10 channel for customers in the Barrie, Orillia and Simcoe County areas of Ontario with the launch of Shaw tv….

Winnipeg: Short film buyers and distributors were among 175 filmmakers, broadcasters, industry delegates and another 450 seminar attendees who gathered for the inaugural Local Heroes International Screen Festival in Winnipeg March 8-13….

DTH service Star Choice has announced it will launch a satellite-borne HDTV channel in the fall of 1999. The channel will offer programming created specifically for high definition broadcast and the company says it is working with programmers in developing the…

canamedia president Les Harris believes that only two kinds of distribution companies will survive the competition from industry giants like Atlantis/Alliance: ‘the really big ones and those really specialized.’…

Montreal: Coscient Group reports revenues of $20.7 million for the second quarter ended Jan. 31, 1999, a sharp drop from the $31.2 million for the same period last year. Net loss for the quarter is $600,000 compared with net earnings of…

With dtv underway down south and Canadians in a holding pattern, what will the savvy broadcaster have on the shopping list this year at nab? Aside from shopping for ongoing plant upgrades, the technical chiefs of Canadian broadcasters will be taking…

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Monster By Mistake animators are breaking new ground with Houdini software by it putting to work on an entire series….

At press time, Canadian Association of Broadcasters was gearing up for the 26th annual can pro convention, to be held March 20-22 in Ottawa….