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Specialties spend $237M on Cancon
The addition of 10 new specialty services to the broadcasting spectrum injected $55.2 million into Canadian programming and production in fiscal 1995, fast-tracking the cumulative Cancon expenditure of Canada’s 29 specialty and ppv services up 53% to $237.6 million from $155.3…
The cost of violence
Sans a directive to block out unclassified American programming, the crtc’s violence decision is receiving kudos from cable companies and broadcasters alike, but has left remaining concern over the cost of encrypting a mountain of programming….
Prisma goes Platinum
Montreal: Prisma Productions has announced its biggest production slate ever, more than $40 million in 1996/97. At the top of the slate is Platinum, a 13-hour international ‘show biz’ drama series plus a two-hour special to be shot starting this fall…
3-city doc hop
Toronto has the most international selection. London has the most eclectic. And Los Angeles has the most. No, not restaurants. Primetime documentaries….
CMPDA decision lauded
In a rare display of cultural policy solidarity, Canadian Heritage has stood behind a crtc decision that u.s. majors view as protectionist and unfair. The March 19 statement made by Heritage Minister Sheila Copps declared government support for a Dec. 20…
Budget bites big
Despite firm commitments from Canada’s three principal federal film and tv agencies to maintain current levels of production financing, the latest round of cuts announced in the March 7 federal budget will inevitably be a blow to production and distribution financing….
Alta. exodus begins
The Alberta Motion Picture Development Corporation will cease operations on March 29, and while industry members continue to lobby for replacement funding, a number of projects will be relocated or shelved….
Video Innovations: Interactive drama pains
As the World Wide Web continues expanding pell-mell, dramatic entertainment forms are being co-opted from tv and film and showing up on the Web in various incarnations. Developers and media companies as well as advertisers are taking a hard look at…
Herzog galvanizes Heroes
Edmonton: This year’s Local Heroes International Screen Festival in Edmonton, its 10th anniversary, was indeed a dynamic meeting of filmmakers and film professionals from all around the country and the world….
B.C. Film shift puzzles industry
Vancouver: A government restructuring in British Columbia that shuffles responsibility for the B.C. Film Commission to a new provincial ministry, has some local producers scratching their heads….
Video Innovations: Intercast may beat telcos, cablecos to the punch
Would cable companies and telcos doing their race-walk towards digital transmission of programming and information software please clear the path: a sprinter is planning to pass you by….
Journal: ACTRA, UBCP agree
After five years of rancor and disruption, Vancouver performers have voted in favor of recommendations that could end a jurisdictional dispute between actra and the Union of B.C. Performers….
Editorial: Mixed messages
The abrupt ampdc closure, with its resultant exodus of production and predicted erosion of infrastructure, starkly illustrates that whoever minds the pocketbook and calls the policy holds the reins of the film and tv industry in Canada….
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