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First Cut slated for Aug.
While the official date is still to be announced, the 2001 First Cut Awards, sponsored by Saatchi & Saatchi Canada and Playback/On the Spot, will this year take place in August, not in July, as in the past….
Stursberg launches Bird Satellite
In a move to penetrate Telesat’s stronghold on the Canadian satellite industry and make a bid for the two remaining satellite positions, Richard Stursberg and NB Capital Partners are launching a new Canadian-owned and controlled satellite company.
Bird Satellite, led by Stursberg as president and CEO, has filed an application to Industry Canada seeking authority to launch and operate two communications satellites for the sake of bridging the ‘digital divide’ and providing Internet access to even the most remote locales in Canada.
Telefilm releases new coproduction guidelines
Montreal: Telefilm Canada has released a new set of significantly more explicit international coproduction guidelines, which the agency formally introduced at MIP-TV (April 2-6)….
TiVo can combat spot antipathy
The remote control and urine – an advertiser’s two worst enemies. (Sorry if you were reading this over lunch!) There are other anti-ad distractions as well: the refrigerator, the kids, the dog, but the remote and pee are the main enemies….
Face To The Pavement
Ricketts rooter: Here I am again wielding my giant, white plastic hose, cleaning your flooded basements, and wading ankle-deep through your backed-up sewage. But you Jack-Smacks know, I love this job like I love an empty bottle. …
Golden Marbles ready to roll
The fourth annual Golden Marble Awards and the third annual Golden Marble Promotion Awards are slated for Sept. 10-11 at New York’s Grand Hyatt Hotel, as part of the Advertising & Promoting to Kids conference. The shows recognize excellence in commercials…
Clarification
Toronto’s Optix Digital Pictures has acquired a Sony 24P HD Cam VTR, not a 24P HD camera as reported in the March 5 issue of On The Spot….
But what about the audience?
Joe I-am-Canadian is soon to find that he’s become just another John Doe, no clear identity and no fixed address. At least, no fixed address that’s identifiably Canadian. …
The best of both worlds
Bill Roberts is president and CEO of Vision TV….
CRTC under fire?
With a rapidly evolving broadcast and telecommunications industry, it would make perfect and timely sense that the mandate of the thirtysomething CRTC finally be held under the microscope and revised to reflect the industry’s changing needs and demands….
Screenwriting aid program approvals
Montreal: Telefilm Canada has announced funding for 52 feature film projects under its Screenwriting Assistance Program….
Clarification
At Barna-Alper Productions, Pim Van der Toorn is acting supervisor of production, documentaries. Incorrect information appeared in our March 19 issue….
B.C. filmmakers get $5M boost
Vancouver: B.C.’s NDP government – low in the polls and just weeks from an election call – has given local feature filmmakers another $5 million over three years. …
Jump Cuts
More laughs at Comedy Awards…
Manz relishes new opportunity
Who’s gone where? From where? And when? As the Revolving Doors spin, we put the spotlight on spot-makers on-the-move….
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