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Playback Readership Poll Results
The issue of carriage fees for over-the-air networks will be a tricky one for the CRTC. In a recent online Playback poll asking readers ‘Should conventional broadcasters be allowed to charge carriage fees to cable companies?’, 53% of respondents voted No and 47% voted Yes.
Correction
The annual operating budget of the Toronto International Film Festival is $17 million, and it employs 104 full-time staff. Piers Handling’s correct title in the organization is TIFF Group director and CEO. Incorrect information appeared in the Oct. 16 issue.
CTF: 10 years of giving voice to Canadian stories
It’s no exaggeration that most would-be producers in this country were left out in the cold prior to the emergence of the Canadian Television Fund in 1996.
Taking the helm in a time of change
The post of president of the Canadian Television Fund isn’t easy at the best of times. It’s a never-ending challenge to balance the interests of broadcasters, producers, and the various production centers when overseeing the distribution of crucial TV cash.
Navigating the broadcaster envelope system
So much of what makes it onto Canadian TV screens is triggered by the Canadian Television Fund – more than $927-million worth of homegrown production in 2005/06 – and producers and broadcasters have to stay on top of all the fine points to acquire crucial CTF cash.
Making a killing
Evil lurking beneath the veneer of suburbia is the theme of Durham County, a thriller series now shooting in Montreal with Muse Entertainment and Toronto’s Back Alley Films.
Ferns project set to sail
Much like the subject of his next project, Pat Ferns will cover a great deal of territory this winter to make Captain Cook, a four-hour mini about the famed explorer set to shoot across Canada, in the U.K., Tahiti, Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia.
Nazi documentary reworked
Montreal filmmaker Frederic Bohbot structured his documentary Once a Nazi as a mystery – so viewers could make up their own minds about former Concordia professor Adalbert Lallier and his controversial past.
Equinoxe reveals Secrets
Equinoxe Films and Milagro Films, both based in Montreal, have signed a deal with Zebra Producciones in Spain to copro Secrets, a feature thriller to shoot in Quebec and Spain next year. The script – about a woman’s search for her missing boyfriend – comes from Antonio Saura (Salomé) and will be directed by his brother, Carlos Saura Medrano (Oculto).
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* CCI Entertainment in Toronto and Ambience Entertainment in Australia are making a second season (26 x 30) of the cartoon Erky Perky.
CRTC preps for TV review
CanWest Global Communications, CHUM, CTV and CBC want to charge cable companies a fee for carrying their signals, telling the CRTC – which next month will hold a wide-ranging review of its TV regulations – that they need the added revenue to stay competitive and to pay for the coming conversion to digital TV.
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Vancouver reviews film regs
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