Industry insiders say Robert Rabinovitch, executive vp and chief operating officer of Claridge Inc., is the Liberal government’s first choice to replace crtc chairman Keith Spicer when his term expires next summer….

Although the issue of the cbc competing with the private sector has been taken to task time and again, the way the network’s cards are being played this time is unprecedented….

Ottawa: The line separating broadcasters and producers, progressively blurring over the past year, has to be erased if broadcasters are to compete in the global market, said industry executives from across the country at this year’s Canadian Association of Broadcasters convention….

While awaiting the Ontario provincial mini-budget, the ofdc is investigating alternatives for funding and operative measures that will be effective despite a possible reduced allocation….

The competition for a regional sports channel is heating up with at least two more contenders reported to be facing off against the CTV Television Network’s S3, in the next round of specialty channel applications….

Vancouver: British Columbia producers improved their standings in the Cable Production Fund lottery last week, as the crtc-mandated program announced its final slate of grants for the current fiscal year. Five West Coast projects, receiving a combined total of about $400,000,…

There is new talk of a major turnaround for Quebec features at the box office this fall….

The grass-is-greener syndrome is in full tilt (ed. note: at windmills), as folks try to get into new pastures….

Actra, although initially one of the associations listed as part of the Directors Guild of Canada dth intervention, was ultimately not part of the group represented by the dgc submission, as stated in the p. 1 story, ‘dth: level field,’ in…

The Canadian production community lost what would have been millions of dollars worth of coproductions when the British Independent Television Commission rejected CanWest Global’s bid for uktv, says David Asper, director, special projects for CanWest….

Montreal: Quebec’s workplace safety authority has filed a report saying a lack of security precautions was responsible for a fatal accident on the set of the feature film Hollow Point….

At the Alliance for Children and Television’s first-ever market simulation for children’s tv, the story was less about what happened and more about who missed it….