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Canadians held ground at the 27th annual Daytime Emmy Awards, presented May 13 in l.a….

Vancouver: Call the old Vancouver phone number for WIC Western International Communications and the receptionist answers ‘CW Shareholdings.’…

Montreal: The CBC/Radio-Canada keynote speaker at this year’s Banff Television Festival is Mark Thompson, recently appointed director of television for the bbc. Thompson’s address is scheduled for Monday morning, June 12, on the subject ‘Zapped: Why Public Service TV Has To…

Montreal: The Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund invested just over $2 million in 14 projects in ’99 – $1.6 million in new media and $423,750 in tv – according to the fund’s annual report. The fund’s three-year total stands at…

Vancouver: EnterCor Entertainment has signed a coproduction development deal with Johannesburg-based Sasani, a diversified entertainment company that provided production services for the Kim Basinger film I Dreamed of Africa….

Covitec Group of Montreal says the effects of last year’s merger with AstralTech are having a beneficial impact on the production and post-production service company’s bottom line. Covitec is the leading dubber of Hollywood movies and posts many of the series…

Montreal: This year’s edition of the Summer Institute of Film and Television, the 20th, is scheduled for June 20-25 in Ottawa. The five-day program includes a popular nightly screening series, chances for serious networking, especially at parties, and professional development workshops…

YTV has been granted permission from the crtc to gear its programming to an older teen audience after 9 p.m., given that the channel’s target audience of six to 11 year olds tends be in bed after that time….

Alliance Atlantis Communications has inked a split-rights deal – a first for the company – with Destination Films to coproduce two features, If Only and Slackers….

Montreal: Patricio Henriquez’s Images d’une dictatorship/Images of a Dictatorship is the winner of this year’s $25,000 M. Joan Chalmers Documentarian Award for Film and Video….

Decode Entertainment has made a major foray into the competitive French children’s market by selling three series to France 3….