It’s the year 2095, or thereabouts. The earth has been so thoroughly ravaged by the wicked habits and wasteful ways of humanity that its surface is not fit to live on. Mankind is an adaptable species and dwells underground, albeit pining…

The merging of CanWest Global and WIC Western International Communications could be a dream realized for Izzy Asper, but the morphing of the two Canadian broadcasters may mean the loss of one avenue of opportunity for producers to sell into, creating…

Members of the Canadian Cable Television Association are expected to announce a new lobbying organization at the end of the month. No word yet as to the name of the group, but an industry source says it will act in the…

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters and the Canadian Cable Television Association are at loggerheads over whether the channel positioning of local broadcasting services on Canadian distribution systems should be left to the goodwill of the distributor or enforced by binding legislation….

The jury is still out on whether the millions being spent on the development of interactive television will, in retrospect, prove a healthy investment. itv, long on the futurists’ lists of just-around-the-corner technology, has proven an exercise in frustration over the…

The Silences of the Palace…

while the London Programme Market was a good one for sellers, buyers say there was less new product on offer at this year’s event, held Nov. 13-15 at Le Meridian….

While the greater part of cbc president Perrin Beatty’s proposed restructuring plans for the network have yet to be approved by the board of directors, Beatty revealed a senior-level shuffle to his staff in a memo Nov. 14, announcing four vp…

Vancouver: A bid by b.c. filmmakers for a provincial film investment program has been sidelined by a number of events, including Bingogate, the financial scandal currently rocking the province’s ndp government that forced b.c. Premier Mike Harcourt’s resignation last week….

Suzan Ayscough, vp Alliance Productions, left the company Nov. 17 to become director of communications at Telefilm Canada….

Montreal: Remember the weather guy who flipped the chalk, or his near descendant with the magnetic sunshine indicators?…

Imagine if Humpty Dumpty, in advance of taking that fatal fall, were held in a perpetual state of vulnerability by a team of scrutineers (the king’s men), assessing his fragile shell and contemplating how impossible it would be to put him…