She’s wanted a channel since 1985, but four children and 15 years later Martha Fusca, president and ceo of Stornoway Communications, got four….

Maelstrom…

Montreal: Industry observers say Telescene Film Group may well stave off defaulting into bankruptcy. When the interests of creditors, including banks owed $84 million, are taken into account, the company is arguably better off alive than dead….

Montreal: Despite doubling its size in the past 12 months and its leading position in the French-language tv market, TVA Group’s Dec. 12 annual general meeting was a decidedly low-key affair….

This year, six notable Canadian films are up for the Best Motion Picture Genie. They are Love Come Down, Maelstrom, New Waterford Girl, Possible Worlds, Stardom, and To Walk With Lions. The dope on the contenders follows….

With a 130% increase in share price, a 44% jump in revenue, a 49% increase in ebitda and an addition of more than $1 billion in market capital, Corus Entertainment reports an excellent year past as it gears up for a…

In its latest move to corner the cable market in Western Canada, Shaw Communications has made a $1.2-billion offer to buy up all the outstanding shares it does not already own in Moffat Communications….

The crtc approval of bce’s $2.3 billion acquisition of ctv is more than welcome news for the Canadian independent production community and essentially all proponents of industry convergence. The takeover unleashes millions of production and development dollars and breaks the regulator’s…

Selections for the 2001 Sundance Film Festival are in and while not one Canadian film made it into the independent feature film competition, Lea Pool’s Lost and Delirious will premiere and five others have been chosen to screen at the world-renowned…

CRTC chair Francoise Bertrand is leaving the tv/telecom regulator as of Feb. 15, 2001 to join Montreal-based Secor Consulting and head up the company’s communications consulting practice….

For years at Christmastide, CBC Radio’s As It Happens called round to Canadian peacekeeping forces based in various war-torn or contentious spots – like Cypress or the Middle East or Africa. Hosts Barbara Frum and Alan Maitland, or Michael Enright and…

The market continues to cool out for the dot-com community, with itv vanguard ExtendMedia slashing its staff for the second time in five weeks and closing down two offices….