TORONTO – "The best that can be said about this report is that the Task Force has not recommended to scrap the CTF altogether," said ACTRA national executive director Stephen... Continue Reading
TORONTO – The Writers Guild of Canada has come out in opposition to the CRTC Task Force on the Canadian Television Fund. Oddly, while directing pointed criticism at Shaw Communications... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – There will be a new way of doing things when it comes to funding home-grown television, if the recommendations from the Task Force Report on The Canadian Television... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – With the Commission's report on what ails the Canadian Television Fund due out tomorrow afternoon (the CRTC under the new chair sure is speedy these days!) Shaw Communications... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – With bids due this week, perhaps this morning, and rumors swirling all around, here's where the perplexing BCE bid brouhaha stands right now. * According to a report... Continue Reading
CALGARY – In the face of a chipper AGM report from the Canadian Television Fund, Shaw Communications CEO Jim Shaw remains displeased over how the CTF is run. Thanks to... Continue Reading
By Greg O'Brien IF THERE WERE NO big bogeymen around to scare the federal government into re-jigging an open wireless spectrum auction to favour such things as spectrum caps, or... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Canadian Heritage minister Bev Oda said it would be “inappropriate to prejudge its review” of the Canadian Television Fund (CTF) currently underway by the CRTC, in her response... Continue Reading
LAST WEEK THE Cable Public Affairs Channel celebrated its 15th anniversary of bringing Canadians the nitty gritty of politics. As the only place where you find federal Parliamentary debates, committee... Continue Reading
BANFF – The Canadian Television Fund, saying it was responding to “a concern” but declining to name whose concern, said it would put off any changes to its bylaws until... Continue Reading
