TORONTO – The Alliance for Children and Television (ACT) honoured Canada’s top English-language children’s programs at the 2005 Awards of Excellence Gala last night.
The jury of industry creators and craftspeople selected the following award winners:
Grand Prize for Best Program – All Categories, sponsored by CBC: This Is Daniel Cook, produced by marblemedia and Sinking Ship Productions, broadcast by Treehouse TV, TVOntario, Knowledge, Access and SNC.
Award of Excellence, Animation, Ages 3–5, sponsored by Zone3: Peep and the Big Wide World, produced by 9 Story Entertainment Inc., broadcast by TVOntario.
Award of Excellence, All Genres, Ages 3–5, sponsored…
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KELOWNA – The Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada presented its British Columbia regional awards at its confab in Kelowna last weekend.
The 2004 TELEVISION winners are: Bert Cannings Award – Best Newscast CFJC-TV – Kamloops, BC – "TV 7 Evening News" (Small Market) CIVI-TV – Victoria, BC – "VI NEWS" (Medium Market) BCTV News on Global – Burnaby, BC – "News Hour, April 15, 2004" (Large Market)
Charlie Edwards Award – Spot News Citytv Vancouver – Vancouver, BC – "Port Moody Shooting"
Dan McArthur Award – In-depth/Investigative BCTV News on Global – Burnaby, BC – "Eurohealth" CIVI-TV -…
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WINNIPEG – While his announcement that Shaw Communications’ VOIP launch in Winnipeg is imminent got some headlines after a speech last week, company CEO Jim Shaw used the forum to pound away at one of his favorite topics: transforming government policy.
After saying in the prepared text of his speech to the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce that he expected Shaw to launch voice over Internet protocol telephony in Winnipeg, “in the next few weeks,” he went on to outline his vision of a lighter regulatory regime for the telecom and TV industry.
Broadcast, telecom, it doesn’t matter, all areas…
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CREIGHTON, ONT. – Broadcasting from two kilometres inside the Canadian Shield just might have set a world record, says the cbc.ca web site today.
“Points North, CBC Sudbury’s afternoon radio show, broadcast from Inco’s Creighton mine Tuesday. It took host Dan Lessard and others nearly 40 minutes to reach their destination: the broadcast was conducted from the part of the mine known as "the deep" – located underground at a depth of about four times the height of Toronto’s CN Tower,” says the story.
The show properly prepared for the stunt, filing the right paperwork and finding out…
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TORONTO – CanWest Mediaworks made a pair of new hires last week, bringing Zev Shalev and Christine Shipton on board to boost Global Television’s content offerings.
Shalev is CanWest’s new senior executive producer in charge of entertainment and information program development. In his new role, Shalev will be responsible for building the company’s entertainment franchise. This will include the development and launch of a new daily entertainment program for the fall schedule.
Shalev has over a decade of experience in the media industry, and was most recently executive producer for Toronto 1. There, he was responsible for the company’s…
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CALGARY – Discount airliner WestJet has announced that its in-flight TV service is ready to fly in its newest planes.
Partnered with Bell ExpressVu and LiveTV, WestJet today announced that all 39 of its Boeing Next-Generation 737-700 aircraft are now equipped with live satellite television. WestJet is the first and only airline in Canada to offer an in-flight TV service that can be individually controlled by each guest from the comfort of their own seat.
WestJet’s complimentary satellite TV service offers a selection of up to 24 television channels from Bell ExpressVu in every seatback on all of WestJet’s…
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TORONTO – One hundred and fifty delegates will converge on Toronto for the RTNDA Canada 2005 National Conference.
According to the RTNDA Update this week, conference chair Melanie Kurzuk says the three-day event, June 9-11, offers a solid line-up of professional development sessions, including "Enterprise Reporting."
“Original enterprise reporting is a newsroom challenge 365 days of the year. Political enterprise reporting is twice as tough. Getting behind the story, giving the audience a check of the facts, revealing campaign truths locally and nationally can be a challenge. Get advice from the experts,” says the release.
The panelists will be:…
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MONTREAL – While honouring the best in Canadian children’s television on June 1st, the Alliance for Children and Television (ACT) will also present two special achievement awards.
The ACT will fete Canada’s top English-language children’s programs at the 2005 Awards of Excellence Gala on June 1 at CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. Producers and broadcasters of Canadian children’s programming will attend the Gala, to be hosted by Peter Keleghan (a.k.a. Red Green’s Ranger Gord, and The Newsroom’s Jim Walcott).
In addition to granting awards for the best nominated programs, the ACT will present two special awards celebrating the…
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TORONTO – Emmy Award voters presented Nelvana’s Rolie Polie Olie with its third Daytime Emmy on Saturday.
The show is on a number of Canadian channels and is a Disney Channel mainstay Stateside, remaining on the cutting edge of 3D animation, seven years after its original launch. The U.S. National Television Academy presented the Rolie Polie Olie team with the coveted award at the 32nd Annual Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards on Saturday, May 14, 2005.
Created by children’s book author and illustrator William Joyce, Rolie Polie Olie pays tribute to the cartoon shorts of the 1930’s as it…
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EDMONTON – The Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada presented its regional journalism awards yesterday in Edmonton.
The 2004 TELEVISION winners are:
Bert Cannings Award – Best Newscast CHAT-TV – Redcliffe, AB – "NEWSWATCH" (Small Market) CTV Regina – Regina, SK – "CTV News Six O’clock Report" (Medium Market) Global Calgary – Calgary, AB – "Racism at the Door" (Large Market)
Charlie Edwards Award – Spot News CTV Saskatoon – Saskatoon, SK – "SHOOTING" CTV Winnipeg – Winnipeg, MB – "Crash Landing" (Honourable Mention)
Dan McArthur Award – In-depth/Investigative CTV Winnipeg – Winnipeg, MB – "I.C.E. Unit" CBC…
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