While the commercials of the ’90s have a reality-based, this-is-you-and-your-house kind of feel, the commercials of the ’80s were something other. Taking lifestyle advertising to a higher plane, they elevated glamor to outlandish heights. Think Calvin Klein. The spots may have…

The following is an alphabetical listing of Canadian animation houses. Information is based on questionnaires completed by companies that chose to respond to Playback. The number of commercials listed refers to completely animated (as opposed to post) jobs….

Since the arrival in office three months ago of the new Ontario Conservative government, Premier Mike Harris has made major, sweeping cuts to government spending. Caught in the line of fire are the Ontario Film Development Corporation and the Ontario Film…

By all reports, the 11th annual MIPCOM International Television and Programme Market was a blowout success for the Canadian companies that made their way to the South of France Oct. 9-13….

Montreal: Quebec’s advanced film school, l’Institut National de l’Image et du Son, opens its doors to 14 students Jan. 8….

Discernible amid the cacophony of opinion raised in more than 260 interventions filed to the crtc in advance of the Oct. 30 public hearings on direct-to-home licensing were a number of requests for the provision of a level playing field for…

Just under six months into operation, $46.2 million of the Cable Production Fund’s inaugural annual budget of $47 million has been earmarked for a total of 165 television projects across the country. Approximately $3 million in requests were turned down, says…

convincing its c-band service customers to switch to the ExpressVu service may be a hard sell for Cancom, say satellite dish retailers….

keith Mahar’s legal action against Rogers Communications hit a dead end when an Ontario Court judge ruled the petition was outside provincial jurisdiction, a matter more regulatory than contract-related….

Negotiations between the apftq, representing Quebec producers, and Association des professionnels de la video du Quebec, representing video technicians, have bogged down under the weight of mutual recrimination….

Despite speculation that Central Part West is going the way of Models Inc., cbc saw the average viewing audience rise 24% between the second and third episodes….

Toronto’s Catalyst Entertainment has spent $2 million on the purchase of Malta’s Mediterranean Film Studios and plans a multiphase, multimillion dollar upgrade of the facility….