Radio-Canada named first Cdn….

Benizens of the tv commercial industry who made the annual spring pilgrimage to The Bessies awards gala saw top spot accolades flow towards commercials in a more classical vein than last year’s down-and-dirty winning entries….

In this report on the 1994 Bessies, Playback wanted to provide a forum for reflection on the best of Canadian television advertisingand maybe touch on some industry issues – with input from those in the front lines….

It’s so cold outside my car has developed a perpetual cough. I’m all the way downtown, circling the block around the Television Bureau in search of an indoor parking space, before the heat stutters on….

I know a man in this business who people tell me is very, very funny. First thing in the morning before the caffeine has reached most of our nervous systems, this man is funny. Tell this man that you have just…

Donald Brittain is writhing in his grave….

We need higher standards…

Here’s a challenge that will fire up the imagination of everyone in the communications business today. How do you entice people into a retail store to buy products that are typically available in thousands of other stores and are sold at…

YTV to lose Kiely…

It’s an interesting exercise to sit down in a darkened room in anticipation of three days of television watching. Three days? You heard right. That’s the investment of time and cerebral energy invested by each one of the judges at the…

More MIP sales…

Montreal: One has to work in both film and television, English and French, to accomplish what Hans Peter Strobl, vice-president of Marko Film, has achieved in the past year….