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The pitch is wild

On the occasion of the Banff Television Festival’s 15th anniversary and its International Market Simulation’s 10th, Playback decided to take a look at some of the concrete programming that resulted from the pitches and relationships formed in the Rockies….

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The teleroman, one of R-C’s

`outstanding’ achievements…

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Production in the West:

Six who have made it…

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Out of the gutter

and into the can…

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Exotica wows Cannes

News from La Croisette…

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Interactivities

Getting into multimedia for…

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Ontario Scene

Hoban makes a Smart choice,…

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Quebec Scene

Second Highlander season tops…

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Atlantis eclipsing former results

Not to be outdone by the mythical reference in its name or the space age worlds of some of its high-profile projects, Atlantis Communications ‘arranged for an eclipse of the sun’ to follow its first annual meeting as a public company….

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Satellite service lifts off

Montreal: Two rival Canadian communications groups have joined forces to give Canada a direct-to-home satellite alternative to u.s. dbs services, specifically DirecTv….

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Malofilm planning U.S. spcialty channel

Montreal: Malofilm Communications and Vision Group, a marketing affiliate subsidiary of u.s. cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., have reached an agreement to introduce The Parents Channel to the u.s. specialty cable television market. The proposed 24-hour service is being pitched to cable…

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At press time

It is understood that the minister of Canadian Heritage has received the secor study on the National Film Board and Telefilm Canada. Observers had suggested the report would recommend merging the two institutions, but apparently it does not. The report will…