BANFF – The questions have been delivered in almost every conference room, certainly every hallway of the Banff World Media Festival this year. It has also been postured in…
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TORONTO and BANFF – Thanks to higher spending on Internet access and TV subscriptions, the Canadian entertainment and media market is on pace to grow faster than the American market,…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) has awarded CBC Radio One's The Current with the Excellence in Journalism Award in the large media category, while the Vancouver Observer…
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TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has launched a new website to showcase Canada’s creative talents and screen-based productions.
Called Canadaonscreen.ca, the site includes television productions, games, Web content,…
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BANFF – Corus has re-launched its script and concept development fund as ‘Script to Screen’, a new program partnership between its western-Canada pay TV service Movie Central and the…
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BANFF – Fans of comedies Call Me Fitz, Less Than Kind and Funny as Hell can look forward to more laughs after Corus’ Movie Central (Western Canada) and Astral's…
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TORONTO – Rogers-owned easy-listening pop music station CHFI-FM held on to top spot in the Toronto radio market with a 13.1% share, down slightly from the winter period’s first…
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BANFF – Bryan Segal, vice-president of sales for Comscore, rattled off TV and mobile statistics for the industry during his keynote session at the Banff World Media Festival. As…
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OTTAWA – Commissioner of Official Languages Graham Fraser said Monday he is “extremely satisfied” with a recent Federal Court decision asking the CRTC to investigate CBC Windsor radio station…
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OTTAWA – After months of rumour and innuendo, the federal government made one of the many rumours official and appointed Jean-Pierre Blais as chairman of…
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