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SGI announces major innovations
The Sheridan College computer animation program is the first purchaser of the new Silicon Graphics O2 workstation….
Digital TV service ready to launch
While direct-to-home satellite providers face their own delays, another digital television service is geared up and awaiting only the regulatory nod to proceed….
Network: Short takes on people, things and what’s shaking out there in the prod tech universe
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Special Report: CAB Annual Convention: CAB convention takes broader view
It’s one more reason to be Alberta-bound this year as the Canadian Association of Broadcasters prepares to dust up Edmonton and launch the largest ever of its annual conventions….
News Brief: Rainmaker expands
Vancouver-based post-production company Rainmaker Digital Pictures will open a facility in l.a. by year end. It will focus on digital visual effects, compression and digital video disk authoring….
Special Report: Interactive Production: Interactive opportunities
The pursuit of interactive tv, that amusingly oxymoronic concept, has provided a long, painful journey for producers and pundits alike and still confounds the technicians and visionaries who would usher it in. In the meantime, interactive programming initiatives for various media…
Special Report: Interactive Production: Discovery set to launch EXN
Walrus suicide. Once you get past giggling over the Monty Python-esque absurdity of it, you have to wonder. Could it be the cold water? The unending diet of oily fish? The daily humiliation of carrying those tusks?…
Special Report: Interactive Production: Disney interacting with Victoria
Since Disney Interactive acquired the Sanctuary Woods multimedia studio in downtown Victoria, b.c. in May, life around the office has become a lot more animated, says facility director Francois Robillard….
Van. hearings wrap
Vancouver: Regional sensibilities took a back seat to the broadcasters’ structural agenda in Alberta, but it’s all eyes on Vancouver in this round of crtc hearings with pitches for new tv licences in Canada’s second largest and fastest growing English-language market….
Omerta scores at Gemeaux
Montreal: Omerta: la loi du silence, Productions sda’s gripping crime drama, completely outdistanced the competition winning 11 Prix Gemeaux at the 11th annual Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television – Quebec tv awards show….
Cinar: action on all fronts
In St. Jean Sur Richelieu, Que., the town’s residents are bringing out their faithful canine companions in droves to meet Lassie, a true-to-life original from the same gene pool as Lassie the First. As for commotions of a different kind, the…
CanWest unveils `definitive package’
With two months until its pitch for entry into Quebec is before the crtc, CanWest Global Communications has filed an amendment to the application which commits an extra $4 million a year for Canadian drama and entertainment production and turns its…
At Press Time
Lacewood has two new animated specials hitting the market which will likely head into production late winter….
Merger could open vistas for Nelvana
Many questions are hanging in the air following Nelvana’s disclosure that it’s in discussions concerning a proposed merger transaction with New York-based Golden Books Family Entertainment, the largest children’s book publisher in North America. Golden has offered $140 million for all…
Telefilm cuts take back seat to CTCPF
Reaction to Telefilm Canada’s 1996/97 action plan is coming not with a bang but with a whimper, and the timing may have much to do with it. Telefilm released the document in the wake of $100 million in new monies coming…
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