OTTAWA – The day after her speech to the Banff TV Festival, promising stable funding for the Canadian Television Fund, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters publicly praised Canadian Heritage Minister... Continue Reading
BANFF - CBC Television has joined Telefilm Canada in a $2 million pilot project to help get feature documentaries in Canadian theatres and on Canadian television. CBC and Telefilm announced... Continue Reading
HALIFAX - TSN's coverage of the pre-season CFL game 'Touchdown Atlantic' in Halifax on Saturday, attracted a national average minute audience of 352,000 viewers, reports the channel. Very good numbers,... Continue Reading
BANFF - Critically-acclaimed television director Jeremy Podeswa was honoured last night with the 2005 CTV Fellowship Prize at the Banff World Television Festival. This award is presented to a CTV... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – A radio station’s failure to respond to a complaint violates CBSC membership rules. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council today released its decision concerning the failure of CHWO-AM (AM740,... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The band NOFX’s song “Kill All the White Man” isn’t racist, but does sanction violence, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said today. The punk band’s cut was broadcast... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – “If one , I’m gonna kill him and tell God he died,” televangelist Jimmy Swaggart said on OMNI.1 last fall. The comment, of course, breaches of Broadcast Code... Continue Reading
BANFF – The BBC took home 50-grand at the 26th Banff Rockie Awards last night. It was a record-shattering night, actually, for the British Broadcasting Corporation at the 26th Banff... Continue Reading
TORONTO - If diversity was the overriding theme for Friday at the RTNDA annual conference, Saturday’s was enterprise reporting. The very informative opening Saturday session at the Radio and Television... Continue Reading
BANFF - Corus Entertainment and the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) today announced the successful applicants for their 2005 Young Filmmaker’s Initiative. Now in its fourth year, the... Continue Reading
