OTTAWA - Gordon Ritchie had a lot more success negotiating the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement than he has had trying to inch Canada’s broadcasters toward a Terms of Trade agreement... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – While stopping short of calling for a wholesale policy overhaul, CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein opened the annual conference of Canada’s film and TV producers with a wide-ranging... Continue Reading
OTTAWA - Fee-for-carriage is back and it’s not just on broadcasters’ wish lists in panel discussion here at the CAB Convention: the CRTC has announced it will re-consider the issue... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Family Channel’s manager of original production, Sandra Walmark, told an audience of animation professionals at the Ottawa International Animation Festival that the pay channel is looking to follow... Continue Reading
OTTAWA - Yes, Virginia, there really is a way to earn separate revenues for multi-platform content linked to an existing TV series, and it really is possible to ensure the... Continue Reading
BANFF – Although the combination of two major regulated TV assets was the talk of the 2007 Banff World Television Festival (Hello, Rogers/Citytv), the focus of the event’s final panel... Continue Reading
BANFF – The issue of media concentration made another appearance at the 2007 Banff TV festival when Jean Prewitt, CEO of the Independent Film & Television Alliance, spoke at the... Continue Reading
BANFF – While broadcasters and producers look to finance their platform-hopping content with advertising, sponsorship and product placements, marketers are trying to match their brands with must-see content on most-viewed... Continue Reading
BANFF – It will be October before Dawn Airey, the opening keynote speaker of this year’s Banff World Television Festival, starts her new job in charge of global content at... Continue Reading
BANFF – In the world according to Garvie – that’s Wayne Garvie, Director of Content and Production, BBC Worldwide – two truths are front and centre: producers and broadcasters can... Continue Reading
