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Alliance Atlantis picks Maven

New broadband players will launch for major Alliance Atlantis specialty nets, and they’ll come with plenty of analytics for advertisers

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Lionsgate signs $400-million deal with Quebec

Sixteen film and TV projects are headed for la belle province following a deal with the investment arm of the government aimed at breathing new life into Montreal

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Industry at odds over fixing CTF

Corus breaks ranks with other broadcasters over proposed new media fund, while CBC, producers and educasters take sides against splitting the fund in two. Public hearings likely, say sources

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Small release for Mommy doc

Your Mommy Kills Animals is trying its luck in Toronto and Saskatoon, looking to expand west and into Montreal

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Brunton gets Smart

Global has handed its version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? to John Brunton of Insight, following his work on the Canadian-ized Deal or No Deal

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CBC signs Raptors

Three-year deal covers between ten and 20 games per season — putting Canada’s only NBA team back on network television for the first time in four years

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Théroux joins Entertainment One

The former top man at Motion Picture Distribution has been tapped by the Toronto distributor to launch an international releasing business based in Canada

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Ottawa outsourcing search for new CBC boss

Breaking from the usual, some say too-political process, the feds have hired a private company to find a replacement for Robert Rabinovitch

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CRTC does not love New York

The feds have told History Television to stop airing CSI: NY, ruling that it does not count as programming about past or current events

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Khanna joins NBC

The former CHUM exec has been hired at NBC Universal International, overseeing its plans for expansion and greater digital content

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Post-takeover plans revealed by CanWest, Goldman

Alliance Atlantis channels and the Global network will go into a new joint venture controlled, for now, by the Winnipeg broadcast giant, according to new details of the $2.3-billion deal

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New media, digital growing, says CRTC

TV viewership was down last year, while Internet on cell phone and other new media continued to rise, according to the new Broadcasting Policy Monitoring Report