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Mann deadline approaches

The deadline for nominations for the annual Bob Mann Award has been extended to Dec. 5….

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Face To The Pavement

The color of repression: With Christmas around the corner and the only decent spot to burn an Eatons’ campaign celebrating repression with a series of fifties images bathed in the color purple – I feel it is time to exercise my…

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CBC, Chum create film fund

CBC and Chum Television have joined forces to spend at least $2 million to prelicense and develop mows and feature films from Canadian independent producers….

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Corus closes on Nelvana

Montreal: Corus Entertainment and a subsidiary have acquired 97.7% of Nelvana’s outstanding subordinate voting shares….

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Lions Gate’s CinemaNow offers film on Internet PPV

Vancouver: Lions Gate Entertainment’s recent acquisition of Trimark Holdings is already paying dividends – at least in expanding the Vancouver company’s reach in the digital marketplace….

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Broadcast policy report: good news for producers

Calgary: in the marketing business, they call it ‘outcome measures.’ But at the crtc, if you want to describe the process of evaluating how well your policies are working, you set up ‘a broadcast monitoring framework based on performance indicators to…

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Clarification

Salter Street Films has first right of refusal on the distribution of Bernie Zukerman’s feature film Chasing Cain. The film will not necessarily be distributed by Muse Entertainment as suggested in the story ‘Zukerman, Muse join forces’ (Nov. 13, p. 1)….

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Four strong winds

Those private broadcasters, I didn’t know they had it in them….

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SPTV merges with CAB

Calgary: In two weeks, the crtc is to announce the winners of new digital specialty tv licences, and for the first time in recent years they will only have one industry association to join. The two current advocacy groups for the…

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Bids & Bites

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Imported gets a makeover

Who’s gone where? From where? And when? As the Revolving Doors spin, we put the spotlight on spot-makers on-the-move….

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CRTC calls for comment

Montreal: The crtc has asked for comments (2000-148) on ‘access by Canadian treaty coproductions to funding from certified independent production funds.’…