Radio / Television News

TV fund pushes on

TORONTO – Despite losing a huge chunk of its annual budget, the Canadian Television Fund will continue to support all eligible productions for the 2006-07 year, it announced late Wednesday. At a recent emergency CTF board meeting, it approved a financial plan that will let the fund maintain financial support of all eligible productions for the remainder of fiscal 2006-07. “The CTF is extremely concerned about our clients and Canadian productions. The board understands that a dramatic reduction in CTF funding so late in the fiscal year would have severely impacted the entire production industry,” says Douglas Barrett, chairman of...