BANFF TV FEST REPORT: Frulla delivers funding pledge, HDTV warning

BANFF - The federal government is promising better governance and more stable funding for the Canadian Television Fund and has begun addressing those needs with an announcement of $100 million worth of support to the CTF for 2006-07. Heritage Minister Liza Frulla announced the news as part of a speedy visit to the Banff World Television Festival today. In a speech moved back one day to Sunday, to allow the politician to be in parliament for Monday morning (never know when those pesky votes might happen…), Frulla hit four main points. First, an oft-heard pledge to secure stable funding for...