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GlassBOX rushes online
Why wait? Company launches music outlet online while CRTC ponders digichannel
Decode unveils iPhone game
Whack O Lantern marks second team-up with Aussie artist Nathan Jurevicius
Digital Media: New media producers decry funding cuts
Ontario digital media producers are taking courage from current economic seesaws and market turbulence by resolving to do more to finance and sell their wares around the world.
Digital Media: Canwest, Rogers partner on VOD
Viewers looking for more access to first-run network shows on Canwest’s Global and E! will soon be appeased. A deal between Canwest and Rogers announced earlier this month will provide free access to more than 60 hours of programming, at any time, via Rogers On Demand.
Digital Media: CRTC readies for new media rethink
GATINEAU, QC — The CRTC has moved a step closer to its rethink of new media, and on Oct. 15 issued a call for comments on broadcasting through mobile, the Internet and other technologies – looking ahead to public hearings set to start in February.
Star power drives tweens online
Barbara Bailie, director interactive for Astral Television Networks, is the self-proclaimed ‘mother of Family.ca‘ who helped start Family Channel’s popular website in ’97 and crafted it into one of the top online kids destinations in the country.
CTV and Bell ramp up mobile
Deal covers content from MuchMusic, TSN, eTalk
CRTC readies for new media rethink
Hearings set for February as commission seeks comment on impact of Internet and mobile on TV
New money for new media
CTF puts up $2 million through pilot program — while questions linger about future of Telefilm’s Canada New Media Fund
Online coverage is key, but not tops
Campaigns and networks may make use of Facebook, blogs and widgets, but at CTV the coverage always circles back to old media, says news boss Robert Hurst
Digital Media: D-cinema gives producers another shot
‘We had the world’s most public test-screening,’ says Niv Fichman. The producer of Blindness is laughing as he recounts the moment when the lights went up after the film’s world premiere in competition at Cannes. ‘The crowd was cheering, but [DOP] César [Charlone] was saying to [director] Fernando [Meirelles] and me, ‘I guess we have some work to do.”
Conservatives may axe Canada New Media Fund
While the federal Conservatives deny a recent report that they have made up their minds to eliminate the $14.5-million Canada New Media Fund, they do confirm the possibility the fund will run its course come March 31, 2009.
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