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Confab takes on national focus
Shifting to include network and national programming in a once exclusively local festival and improving program quality are a few of the items on the broadcasters’ agenda for CanPro 97….
VOD hearings begin
Issues of access to broadcast distribution undertakings will be the hot buttons in Hull as the licensing hearings on five video-on-demand services begins March 17 and it may be the Alliance Communications/Shaw Communications application that takes the heat….
The deal for TQS
Montreal: As many as half a dozen potential buyers of Television Quatre Saisons are going over the books. There’s a flurry of near-secret meetings between potential dealmakers, with the early money on a mixed Quebec-based consortium of broadcast and production company…
At Press Time
Fredericton-based Star Choice Communications and Shaw Communications have announced a partnership which will merge the dth services of both companies. Star Choice Communications will acquire 100% of the assets of Homestar, Shaw’s proposed dth service which was licensed January 31. Assets…
Another CBC Gemini coup
‘We cannot guarantee your safety,’ warned Red Green-er and Trader Patrick McKenna as an opener for night two of the 11th Annual Gemini Awards. And no wonder he feared for his well-being, as the set was spinning like Wheel of Fortune…
Baton: After the swap
a little deal between Baton and CHUM Ltd. and suddenly dismantling the ctv co-op, a seemingly insurmountable problem for a half-decade, is solved. All that remains for the new King of Canadian broadcasting and his court are four months of math…
Perspective: Bureau: Canada on the right track
Montreal: On those competitive issues central to the interests of the industry, safeguarding of our distinctive rights market and special status for coproduction ties with Europe, the battle continues. But recently appointed chairman of Astral Communications and former crtc chair Andre…
CTCPF rules delivered
When the fax machine at the Licence Fee Program of the $200 million ctcpf is switched on at 9:00 a.m. on April 1, the race to spend the cash will officially have begun….
Middlebrook named publisher
Shelley Middlebrook, associate publisher of Playback for the past two years, has been promoted to publisher. Middlebrook, 30, succeeds Kathy Hamill, who remains vp and group publisher. Hamill will be taking a more active role in developing and launching new publications…
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Sask. gov’t. expected to hold off on credit
With a firm commitment on a tax credit likely absent from an impending Saskatchewan budget, Prairie producers continue discussions with provincial governments toward sustaining local production levels and industry infrastructure….
High Road working on hefty slate
High Road Productions has just created a new distribution division, High Road International. In addition to world market forays, the 16-year-old Toronto documentary production company is also venturing into drama….
News Briefs: Greenlight production slate
Toronto-based Greenlight Entertainment has two projects on its upcoming production slate – a feature film Hellcab and half-hour magazine series Get A Grip On Golf….
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