OTTAWA – Digital disruption has opened up tremendous opportunity for broadcasters, distributors and producers alike, but has also created significant challenges, according to speakers in the first panel session…
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HOLLYWOOD – The award-winning French-Canadian film Les Affamés has been picked up by Netflix and will be available internationally starting next month, though not in Canada.
Written and directed by Robin…
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TORONTO – While the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) saw Internet-based revenues jump 46% in 2017, the majority of members who received payment for…
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MONTREAL – Bell will donate a further $6.92 million to Canadian mental health programs after Wednesday’s Bell Let’s Talk Day recorded over 138 million calls, tweets, texts and shares.
From…
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HALIFAX – DHX Media is cooking up a second season of its animated television series Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series, based on the Sony Pictures Animation…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Communications Foundation is seeking new members for its board of directors.
The foundation, which tracks the history of broadcasting in Canada, is seeking a variety of…
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OTTAWA – According to the latest figures released today by the Canadian Media Producers Association, overall production volume in Canada soared to an all-time high of $8.38 billion in…
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FIRST DISNEY BUYS FOX’S MEDIA LIBRARY, so then maybe Corus buys Bell Media – or the other way around? If so, is this a good idea or a bad…
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MONTREAL – Bell Canada’s Let’s Talk Day appears to have been another unqualified success.
Just after midnight, the Bell Let’s Talk web site said it had counted 136,560,989 interactions across…
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OTTAWA – If you want to drop in on the Canadian Media Producers Association Prime Time in Ottawa conference today and tomorrow without being in Ottawa, you can stream…
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