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CanWest Global’s 20th Anniversary: CanWest: broadcasting history

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CanWest Global’s 20th Anniversary: Alberta: Asper gets the last word

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MIPCOM delegates record healthy sales

Post mipcom, there is excitement at Salter Street Films over a closed deal with France’s Canal Plus for 28 hours of the new lexx series. Salter’s police thriller Major Crime also made a good showing, closing deals with networks in Australia,…

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CAB Confab ’97: Digital discourse at the CAB

Over 2,000 participants from all aspects of broadcast and the television production industries are converging on the Metro Toronto Convention Centre Oct. 19-21 for the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ largest convention ever, Broadcasting ’97….

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At Press Time

Behind the loss of Mary Pat Gleeson, vp of marketing and releasing, and Anna Maria Mucilli, vp of publicity and promotions, Alliance Communications and Tony Cianciotta, senior vp and gm, releasing, have parted ways….

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On set: Edison

Horse-drawn carriages clattering over the cobblestoned streets, ladies strolling along sidewalks wearing big busy dresses, and dirty-faced little boys perched on the corners shouting out the day’s headlines bring us back in time to West Orange, New Jersey, 1893….

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Houle report: New feature policies in store

Montreal: If the industry in Canada can build an effective consensus on the future of Canadian feature films, there may be hope sooner rather than later for a new series of public policy initiatives aimed at revitalizing the largely underachieving and…

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Jackson Hole kudos for Cdns.

Canadian documentary producers and filmmakers had their day in the Wyoming sunshine at this year’s Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival which wrapped Sept. 27, hosting more than 700 filmmakers, buyers, distributors and suppliers of documentary and non-fiction programming from around the…

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Broadcasters seeking a digital plan

Implement: to complete, fulfill, put into effect. Deploy: to spread out, bring into effective action….

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Atlantic fest fetes local, Cdn. filmmakers: Fitzgerald wins big in Halifax

Now in its 17th year, the Atlantic Film Festival wrapped Sept. 27 after nine days of parties, seminars, schmoozing and the screening of a record 211 films from local, Canadian and international filmmakers….

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Correction

Condor Productions’ Nov. 1 & 2 weekend seminar ‘Creating Documentaries In The New World’ is being held at the National Film Board in Toronto but is not sponsored by the nfb. For more info contact Vladimir Bondarenko of Condor Productions, who…

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Editorial: Too much too soon

If the rules are awol for the specialty channel applicants, maybe there’s a working model within the chosen ones debuting on analog this month. If one would like to have a licence more a tangible asset than ink on paper, perhaps…