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CTF to dole out $275 million

TORONTO - The Canadian Television Fund said on Monday that it will provide $275 million to Canadian television producers for the 2008-2009 fiscal year. Through the Broadcaster Performance Envelope (BPE) system, the CTF will allocate $173 million to English-language broadcaster envelopes and $79 million to French-language broadcaster envelopes. These funds will support English and French programming in the genres of Drama, Children's and Youth, Variety & Performing Arts, and Documentaries. The 2008-2009 BPE allocations are listed on the CTF website, www.ctf-fct.ca. Initiated in 2004, with English Drama being incorporated two years later, the Broadcaster Performance Envelope system “is a market-oriented...