✖
YTV, Canal Famille launch toy lines
Montreal: Canada’s children’s specialty channels, ytv and Canal Famille, are deepening their out-of-home profiles with the launch of their own toy lines, expected to hit the market by fall….
CCTA’s Stursberg on the specialties
If there was ever an ideal time to take over as president and ceo of the Canadian Cable Television Association, January 1995 wasn’t it….
Specialties: They’re at the gate
Of the original 44 new applications for specialty services filed with the crtc in January, 40, an eclectic mix of business plans among them, are still standing….
At Press Time: Showcase buys Sirens rights
showcase Television has purchased the rights to the 22-hour Telescene Communications lady police series Sirens, set to air April 19. It will broadcast in French on Tele-Metropole starting May 15….
Pubcos: More maturity, growth forecast
Canada’s publicly traded production companies have raised more than $150 million in equity financing in the past three years….
At Press Time: NFB Mtl. Lab to close?
The NFB lab in Montreal may close as of June 28. The lab closure is one of the many recommendations that are part of the massive internal re-engineering currently before the board, which include closing one of the two Montreal buildings,…
Surprise! CBC sweeps Geminis
It was three days of peace and television. And Ernie Coombs. And meat. The 10th annual Gemini Awards were held over three days March 1-3 at the Sheraton Centre and the John Bassett Theatre at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and…
Canadians show quality not quantity at Berlin festival
Berlin: Though Canadian films had a reduced presence at last month’s 46th International Berlin Film Festival, with no films in competition, the quality was such that we managed to pick up four awards, including two from the children’s jury of the…
Bigger turnout for bigger pix at AFM
Santa Monica, Calif: ‘Deals are happening. Deals are happening,’ was the mantra at the American Film Market, held from Feb. 29 to March 8 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, enjoying a record year in attendance….
Journal: OPSEU out, managers in
During the Ontario Public Service Employees Union strike, a management team is doing its best to keep a skeleton operation going at the Ontario Film Development Corporation….
Journal: New coprod partner
Canada has a new audio-visual coproduction agreement with Luxembourg, and the first project will be a Canada/u.k./Luxembourg miniseries based on the novels of Jack Higgins. Montreal-based Telescene is the Canadian partner for On Dangerous Ground, set to broadcast on ctv in…
Journal: Global licence terms
Global’s licence has been renewed for a seven-year period beginning Sept. 1, 1996, with crtc chairman Keith Spicer saying the commission is ‘pleased that the licensee has exceeded the minimum expenditure of over $300 million each year on Canadian programming.’…
Editorial: Dialling for $$
We’re slicing the pie again. Divvying up the dial, eyeballs and ad bucks, so just as Round One ‘make whole’ contenders are claiming victory, get ready for Sub Fees: The Sequel….
Correction
A story in the Feb. 26 issue stated that the nfb received four Hot Docs! nominations, when in fact nfb films received a total of five nominations. The article omitted Faces of the Hand in the Best Short Documentary category….
Journal: CFI seminar
An interesting mix gathered for the Canadian Film Institute’s Canadian Film and Television seminar, ‘New challenges and new opportunities in a changing environment,’ on March 4, with Telefilm’s Bill House, the ofdc’s Alex Raffe, the cpf’s Bill Mustos and Baton Broadcasting…
The definitive CDN broadcast and production resource.Over 5,000 company listings!
