BANFF 2015: TV Is Dead, Long Live TV!

By Bill Roberts

BANFF – While it has certainly morphed, like the media it celebrates, The Banff World Media Fest remains the only gathering of its kind dedicated to the global business of television - particularly in the broadband era – and this 36th chapter opened with a touch of déjà vu all over again.The Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters lamented that the six major U.S. studios controlled 72% of the Canadian market, leaving only mince for Canadian independent distributors – and there was the expected echo of Canadian Media Production Association, and others, bemoaning that change had inflicted unkind attrition...