TV revenues fall for Canadian producers

OTTAWA – Lower-cost shows like reality and game shows may be one reason why Canadian producers’ revenues from TV productions continue to fall, Statistics Canada reports. In 2004, film and video producers reported TV sales of $1 billion, down 10% from 2001, the agency says. Overall production revenues from all sources also fell by 10% in that time. Television productions therefore kept their same share of the total production revenues, accounting for two-thirds of them. TV revenues may also be falling because of increased competition from other entertainment sources, and from a trend away from more costly productions, like movies-of-the-week,...