Montreal: Claude Heroux and Nicolas Clermont have been elected cochairs of l’Association des producteurs de films et de television du Quebec, the Quebec producers association….

Showtime announces $50 million Cdn. slate…

One of Trina McQueen’s overriding concerns as she sets out to cull programming toward the launch of The Discovery Channel is to let people know she and her staff want a light touch. ‘We appreciate wit, we appreciate style and an…

‘Women want a lot more information that is relevant to their lives,’ says Barbara Barde, vice-president programming at Lifestyle Television. And that, she says, will be the primary consideration behind programming decisions for the new specialty service aimed primarily at women….

Bravo! president Paul Gratton isn’t ready to discuss specifics about CHUM Ltd.’s new entertainment and perfoming arts channel, but says maybe that’s due to his ‘style.’…

Showcase president Phyllis Yaffe says the all-drama channel will be licensing 15 original half-hour dramas over its six-year licence period, with a fee of $250,000 attached to each project. There will be a competition for the original segments, which is ‘accessible…

When Playback went to the offices of YOU: Your Channel to check on how things are going since you received specialty channel status, we found ourselves in the midst of a whole lot of shakin’ going on….

The managers of Arts et Divertissement, the new French-language specialty service focusing primarily on documentaries, are presently conducting key negotiations on tier-pricing with Quebec’s cable distributors….

Bruce Nelson, executive vice-president of CFCN Communi-cations and spokesperson for the Maclean Hunter Radio/Rawlco new specialty tv service, The Country Network, predicts a real boon for independent producers when Canada’s first country music video channel hits the airwaves come January….

Construction on the new $7.4 million Reseau de l’information studios and newsroom is underway on Level 3 at Maison Radio-Canada. The 24-hour French-language all-news service has an annual budget of $27 million – 85% from subscriber fees, 9% from advertising and…

In handing down its specialty licence decisions last month, the crtc said The Classic Channel got the nod because it would help to strengthen this country’s premium discretionary tier….

Attention all producers and distributors who hold rights to films that are at least 20 years old, Moviemax wants to hear from you….