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Dramatic growth coming in ‘everything digital’
Five-year look-ahead says surge in spending will include video games, Internet advertising
Fairhurst joins Algolith
Former Avid exec to head worldwide sales
Distraction Formats closes its doors
Montreal company ‘too fragile to resist’ economic downturn, says Michel Rodrigue. Nine jobs lost
Festival focuses on ‘urban experience’
Tel Aviv in the spotlight as organizers unveil new program and first of TIFF’s international selections
Apatow’s latest to headline Just For Laughs fete
Plans for Montreal fest include Funny People and Roy Dupuis-starrer Les doigts croches
Ten licences for ATN
CRTC okays 10 digichannels aimed at South Asian community
CBC’s Stursberg envies Quebec
If only English Canada would take its TV personally, like Quebec does, CBC EVP Richard Stursberg lamented at a recent Montreal conference on the pubcaster’s future.
Make new friends, but keep the old
I’d never heard of Christina Piovesan when she invited me for a coffee. If you haven’t heard of her, here’s fair warning: if she invites you for coffee, go.
Pelley in pursuit of gold
Keith Pelley is busy getting into shape, Olympic shape that is.
Dolan makes a killing in Cannes
Cannes darling Xavier Dolan, who burst onto the international film scene last month with his moving love story about a single mother and her son, J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother), has already sold his prize-winning film to 14 countries.
Who’s minding the store?
Christina Jennings headed into the biggest TV series premiere of her long production career feeling the pressure.
3 things you didn’t know about… Valerie Creighton
Valerie Creighton is president and CEO of the Canadian Television Fund
Blu-ray is so 2008. Think Red Ray
Just when you thought it was safe to wade back into the format waters comes Red Ray. The new Red Ray DVD player was demonstrated to attendees of a recent day-long Red event at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas – a chance for current and future Red One camera owners to socialize, compare notes and examine the latest wave of Red accessories and tools for unlocking the potential of the system.
ACTRA’s new prexy has graced stages coast to coast
Humble and holistic aren’t words that readily jump to mind when profiling senior executives, but ACTRA’s new national president, Ferne Downey, wears them well.
Half staff: Charles Dalfen
Former CRTC chair Charles Dalfen died May 26 at age 66. Dalfen, who handed the reins to current chair Konrad von Finckenstein, served from 2002 through 2006 and had returned to his law firm Torys LLP in an advisory capacity.
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