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REPORTS LATE MONDAY said that the centrepiece of Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly’s 17-months-in-the-making strategy to energize, or backstop, the production of…
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TORONTO – The Canadian music industry has lost a major source of funding after Bell Media confirmed that it has pulled the plug on its MuchFACT program.
MuchFACT has supported…
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TORONTO – Bell Media’s CraveTV is teaming up with Just For Laughs on three original stand-up comedy specials that will stream next year.
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MONTREAL – V is readying its own French-language version of U.S. urban dance competition America’s Best Dance Crew.
Starting in January, the Julie Snyder-producer series Danser Pour Gagner will see urban dance…
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MONTREAL – More than 270 members of Canada’s film and television industry are demanding that U.S. web-based media giants like Google, Facebook, Netflix and Amazon play by the same…
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OTTAWA – A cellphone video that showed students being stabbed at their BC high school should not have been included in televised newscasts, says the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council…
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TORONTO – Shaftesbury’s Scott Garvie was elected board chair of the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) for the second time Tuesday at the organization’s annual general meeting in Toronto. …
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TORONTO and MONTREAL – The Bell Fund is marking its 20th anniversary with the launch of the first of four pilot programs that will provide grants to Canadian media…
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ACCORDING TO REPORTS from France this week, the country will enact a new levy on all providers of online video, beginning January 1, 2018.
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OTTAWA – Canadians may soon have more teleshopping options after the CRTC was urged to reconsider its earlier decision denying U.S.-based television shopping service QVC a place on Canadian…
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