Ontario Culture Minister Aileen Carroll and the Ontario Media Development Corporation sided with the creative community in calling for Internet and wireless service providers to contribute to the creation of online content. Carroll noted at the CRTC’s new media hearing that it is difficult for producers to get their content on closed new media platforms, especially mobile, and that they rarely have the bargaining power to ensure broadcasters will make use of new media rights.

While the CRTC’s Gatineau, QC hearing on Canadian broadcasting in new media recessed for a couple of days last month, across the bridge the production community was discussing what kind of role, if any, the commission should play in regulating the funding, accessibility and monetization of digital content.

E1 Entertainment has made its iTunes debut with Twilight, putting the teen vampire pic atop a pack of films, docs and children’s content now available from the distributor through the popular online store.

Peace Point Entertainment has jumped on the Joost bandwagon, putting five of its series…

Pary Bell is to leave Canwest Global to join Rogers Media as VP of product, digital media…

Marblemedia and the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf have teamed up to create the first animated and…

The top private broadcasters’ websites have so far been spared the advertising downturn afflicting their conventional TV stations, and as a result the casters say they are proceeding with their digital media initiatives as planned.

While the private broadcasters move conservatively forward online in the current economic climate, they seem to still be years away from a significant presence in mobile video.

Describing their relationship with broadcasters as ‘severely and increasingly imbalanced,’ independent producers called for a ‘use it or lose it’ provision…