After a year of deliberating, the crtc has given headline news service CTV News 1 permission to air long and live broadcasts….

Canada’s basic cable systems will have to make room for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network by Sept. 1….

Vancouver: After two lackluster quarters, Vancouver’s Mainframe Entertainment made good on its promises and delivered 21 half-hours of animated television in fiscal 1999’s third quarter (ended Dec. 31, 1998). As a result the company posted an impressive 66% increase in revenues….

Vancouver: Lions Gate Entertainment – a Vancouver film company that has appeared to want to run before it could walk – seems to be finding its feet according to its third quarter results announced March 1 and the closure of a…

The cftpa has taken a firm position on a proposal to eliminate the federal production services tax credit. The producers association does not support the measure which was suggested in an advisory committee report to Heritage Minister Sheila Copps’ Feature Film…

Montreal: Documentary filmmakers in the Canadian Independent Film Caucus say they’ll be shut down if obliged to shoot under industrial conditions and pay union scale. The cifc producers say they can’t pay union scale because tv licences for one-off docs keep…

Canada should participate in the formation of a multilateral agreement on cultural products like tv shows and movies Alliance Atlantis chairman and ceo Michael MacMillan told delegates at Insight’s 1999 Broadcasting and Program Distribution Summit in Toronto late last month….

Vancouver: Representatives from Revenue Canada, the Motion Picture Association of America and an ad hoc group of Canadian producers convened in Vancouver Feb. 23 to come up with solutions to the simmering taxation crisis for the service production industry in Canada….

Bruce Cowie has retired from his post as ctv executive vice-president and chief operating officer….

`Sour grapes’…

Chaos and counting…

* At the Western office of Telefilm Canada, John Dippong has been appointed head of feature film for the Western office. Dippong was previously an investment analyst and before that a programmer at the Vancouver International Film Festival….