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Off to Vegas to NAB some new toys

This year’s National Association of Broadcasters convention will see more than 70,000 engineers, broadcasters and post-production folk making the trek to Las Vegas, April 9-13, to check out trends, product launches, and look for that piece of technology that might give…

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Building a better bug: C.O.R.E. reaches The Outer Limits

There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling the transmission….

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Telefilm, NFB name new heads

Amid a flurry of rumors out of Ottawa – from word that Heritage Minister Michel Dupuy will lose his Cabinet post to speculation that interim Telefilm Canada head Peter Katadotis will step down from the agency – the federal government is…

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Alliance earnings up 78%…

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CBC out in front: Gemini Opening Night winners

Cbc is in the lead in the first leg of the ninth annual Gemini Awards marathon….

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Hot Docs gets impressive turnout

When Hot Docs! wrapped Feb. 19 in Toronto with an awards dinner, the second annual documentary industry forum and public festival had doubled its number of delegates from just over 200 in ’94 to about 450 this year….

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Nelvana finds Animo a good fit

‘This is a good time to get our feet wet’…

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Box Office Addendum

Two Canadian films, Titanica and Le secret de jerome, were inadvertently omitted from the 1994 Box Office chart on page 4 of the Feb. 13 issue of Playback….

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Correction

In last issue’s Hot Docs! Special Report, the director of the Canada Award-winning film For Angela was incorrectly listed as Dan Prouty. Producer/director is Nancy Trites Botkin and Prouty is codirector….

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Editorial: ‘I Am Canadian’

Trying to define Canadian identity is a thorny question at the best of times, usually addressed in the negative, that to be Canadian is to not be American, or to not be European….

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UBI: TV technology driven by marketing

Montreal: ubi is a multimedia television consortium with an I-Way mission to change the face of direct marketing in Quebec….

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Hearings delayed…