Ubisoft plans to produce ‘triple A games’ at new complex opening in Toronto later this year

Cross-platform media strategist Gavin McGarry has a thought for producers and broadcasters: maybe TV programs aren’t meant for the Internet after all.

Global accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers is betting on a dramatic shift in entertainment and media spending over the next five years. According to the firm’s newly released Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2009-2013, the increases will be concentrated in video gaming, Internet advertising and what the report gamely calls ‘digital everything.’ The report predicts consumer spending will surge after 2011.

U.S. paycaster takes another step north in deal with Apple

Five-year look-ahead says surge in spending will include video games, Internet advertising

The CRTC will stay away from new media for at least another five years, but has sided with the National Film Board in calling for a broader national strategy to keep Canada competitive in the global digital marketplace. The commission said it will continue to exempt from regulation broadcast content that is distributed via the Internet or mobile devices, as it has since 1999, following hearings it held earlier this year towards a possible policy change.

In the U.K., Channel 4 has become the first broadcaster to make most of its back catalogue available to online viewers. In total, about 10,000 programs, representing 4,000 hours of archived content, will be made available for viewers to stream. The flood of programming will only include shows the broadcaster has the full rights to.

New legislation to be tabled this fall, industry minister tells Ottawa conference, following summer-long consultation with public

Newfoundland is getting e-cinema, courtesy of the NFB and the Shorefast Foundation, which on Wednesday announced plans…

MoboVivo has signed a deal with BBC Motion Gallery to distribute over 100 short…

To producers of pure interactive media, the most worrisome aspect of bringing together the Canada New Media Fund and the Canadian Television Fund into one financing body was the belief that, going forward, all digital projects eligible for support would have to be tied to a TV program.