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Eco-content adventure comes to Discovery
CTV’s green-minded sister is again growing its online presence with the launch of expeditiongreen.ca
Interactives take dim view of Cancon at ICE08
Replace those tax-credit applications on your desk with maps of Atlanta and San Francisco if you want to survive and thrive in the emerging digital content world, Canadian producers attending last month’s ICE08 conference were told.
More money for interactive media
The CRTC has given the interactive media sector a shot in the arm, earmarking for it $10.5 million of the benefits package associated with the buyout of BCE by a consortium including the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and U.S. partners.
CBC debuts interactive Cup coverage
Playoff Tracker lets users chat during games, see instant updates, and partake in live polling and gaming
Mobile first for Weather Network
New tools provide constant weather and traffic updates to BlackBerry users. First of their kind in North America
Family pushes Wii games
Astral channel looks to boost its website with a month-long competition and a line of games made for the Nintendo console
HBO goes mobile with Bell
Full episodes of Entourage, The Sopranos and Flight of the Conchords to be available on handsets
Slice bows first cross-platform series
Canwest’s content and digital media groups have co-commissioned a new series for broadcast on both the Slice channel and online. How to Make Love to My Wife is an eight-parter about a husband trying to ‘transform himself from a bedroom dud to a bedroom stud.’
More money for interactive media
CRTC earmarks $10.5 million of the BCE benefits package to the digital media sector, with eyes on an eventual Canadian Television Fund new media stream. Good, but industry remains under-supported, say critics
Interactives take dim view of Cancon
Homegrown content is not ‘sustainable’ in interactive world, and producers should focus instead on creators and the industry itself, attendees told at Toronto conference
TVO strikes Yahoo! deal
Educaster’s move to make parent-aimed programming available on the site follows CBC content appearing on BitTorrent
Weather Network blows into Facebook
Channel and its French-language counterpart launch an application on the social networking site
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