Vancouver’s Keystone Entertainment is reaping the benefits of a successful year. The company’s consolidated revenue for the six-month period ending Jan. 31 was $11.6 million, up from the $1.2 million earned in the same period in 1998. Keystone’s expenses for the…

Montreal: The 1999 edition of the Monte Carlo Television Festival in Monaco, in progress through to Feb. 24, features its first-ever program format sales market….

Montreal: Television Quatre Saisons president Rene Guimond has announced the network is moving to 614 and 612, rue St-Jacques West, the location of majority shareholder (70%) Quebecor’s head office….

Twenty-four-hour sports news and info specialty Headline Sports launched a rebranding effort Feb. 1 which includes a revamped on-air design look, logo and programming additions….

Add Ontario’s minister of citizenship, culture and recreation to the list of those opposing a recommendation to eliminate the federal production services tax credit….

Ottawa’s Amberwood Productions has entered into a deal with PIP Animation Services for two contracts worth $800,000. Under the deal, pip will provide backgrounds, ink, paint, color design and compositing services for Hoze Houndz, Amberwood’s 13-episode program on Family Channel….

Longtime cable movie service producer Dufferin Gate has made the jump to series television with The Hardwood, a big-budget, high-profile drama for Viacom Productions skedded to premier on u.s. cable channel Showtime in June….

Montreal: After the locker-room jollies of the hugely successful Les Boys I & II, screenwriter/director Louis Saia looks at how the other half lives in the new ‘girl-talk’ sitcom Histoires de Filles, a 22 half-hour series produced by Match tv’s Anne-Marie…

Halifax’s Imagex Films (Love and Death on Long Island, The Divine Ryans) is expanding its production slate beyond feature films and moving into television and animation production….

Youth specialty ytv has been taking some carefully planned steps toward a digital production environment, a major component of which is an investment in new high-resolution cameras. The broadcaster recently inaugurated the new Sony technology on a live Christmas special….

Brad Fortner of the Rogers Communications Centre at Toronto’s Ryerson Polytechnic University is promotions advisor for the Toronto Section of smpte….

Toronto’s Soho Post and Graphics was recognized for its broadcast design initiatives recently, scooping a pair of awards at the TV Programming and Promotion component of the New York Festivals show….