Over-the-air broadcasters carved up most of the spoils, and at least one specialty was shut out, as the Equity Investment Program made its much-anticipated funding announcements April 25 for English and French television drama, children’s and variety programming….

Cannes: It couldn’t have been more fitting, reading the news of the latest content/broadcast merger, front and centre in the Wall Street Journal Europe, en route to Cannes….

Las Vegas: For me, the defining moment of the NAB2000 Convergence Marketplace came as I rode a minivan cab down the familiar route from my hotel to the Las Vegas Convention Center, one of two locales in the desert oasis for…

Following is the complete list of this year’s Campaign and Singles Bessies finalists….

One hundred in 2000….

Lions Gate Films president Jeff Sackman sits, dressed in sweater casuals, in his busy Toronto office. Periodically checking his computer for fast-breaking information, Sackman speaks to Playback about the company’s u.s. operations, the new name plates on the ceo’s door, the…

The first Bessies of the new millennium will be held May 10 at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in Toronto, a change in locale from last year’s ceremony at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre….

Ammirati Puris Lintas chairman and creative director Doug Robinson’s name appears more often than any other on the Bessies 2000 finalists list. He is credited as creative director on six of the finalist spots and two finalist campaigns, suggesting that he…

Kevin Shea is the new president of the Global Television Network. Shea, who joined Global four-and-a-half years ago from Atlantis Communications, was initially president and coo of eastern operations. He will now be responsible for all of Global’s conventional television stations…

Jim Sward, president and ceo of Global Communications since 1993, will be leaving the company when his contract expires Aug. 31….

Montreal: TVA Group’s senior management has organized a Canada/u.s. road show to sell a new subscription receipt offering aimed at financing the acquisition of Motion International….

The first big round of Canadian Television Fund deadlines is over, the fall pickups are ordered and the next round of budget cuts is set to launch its latest ‘transformation’ within weeks – but the cbc will hit its crests and…