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Video Innovations: Waiting for widescreen HD

Like kids at a high school dance, broadcasters and product manufacturers are still waiting to see who, if anyone, will be first out on the floor when it comes to high-definition widescreen tv….

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Studios raise a stink over T.O. garbage facility

When Toronto City Council met early this month to discuss, among other things, the removal of the McLeary Park garbage transfer station that has so irked studio owners in the district, the motions to move the garbage depot were rejected. But…

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Numbers: The Magic Hour

CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes is taking a respectable share of all 30 of them in the 9 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. slot Monday nights….

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Asian TV to beam into U.S.

While crtc hearings on direct-to-home service continue, the Asian Television Network is seizing the opportunity to begin broadcasting into the u.s. on the Connecticut-based AlphaStar dth service….

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Word on the Street: Cinematographers get new rep shops

Competition is heating up for cinematographer representation with two new players on the scene challenging Sesler & Company. Karen Martin at KM Represents opened the dop doors at the beginning of November on the heels of Denis Kane and Kane Representation,…

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LIAA names winners

The London International Advertising Awards were presented to 139 winners in television/cinema, radio, print and package design categories Nov. 13….

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Commercial Directions: Walton busy in the West

At Imported Artists, director Richard D’Alessio will be helming a day for Bell through Leo Burnett at the end of November. Third Floor’s Gillian McCarthy will be editing and Paul Sarossy will be behind the camera….

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Storyboards: Day for night

It opens like an epic movie, with a huge mountain vista reflected in an equally huge lake. Headlights winking, a tiny car makes its way through the dark….

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Ontario Scene: Accent on action for Toronto location shoots this season

It looks like Toronto’s chilly season may be heated up by not one, but three major Hollywood pics….

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B.C. Scene: Diana Kilmury production wraps

Vancouver: After years of driving stars to the set, Teamster boss Diana Kilmury relaxed in the back seat this month on her way to act as an advisor on The Lady is a Teamster: The Diana Kilmury Story. (Geez, the titles…

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Programming: YTV winning at the specialty game

Saddled with a Chinese puzzle of licence conditions on one hand and the attack of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox 29 in kiddie primetime on the other, there are television programmers with an easier job than Kevin Wright, director of programming at ytv….

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For The Record

– Ideacom International will soon start shooting on To the Four Corners of the World, a 26 half-hour magazine series on global markets and trade. The program will go to air on Radio-Canada and TV5 International in early 1996 and on…