COMMENTARY: Why Banff?
BANFF – Back in the day we had a plethora of annual Canadian industry events and mass huddles. There was the Canadian Association of Broadcasters annual confab, and the BDU […]
BANFF 2013: Reality vs. Docs
BANFF – When I first started going to the Realscreen Summit in Washington DC, almost 12 years ago, it was documentary Mecca. Today, Realscreen is a Kasbah of reality shows […]
BANFF 2013: A tale of two conferences, two ways of doing business, that must come together
BANFF – There are two conferences here – and I suspect Marshall McLuhan would be giddy at the contrast. (For those who don’t know, McLuhan is the pointy head Canadian […]
BANFF 2013: “They are also soiling their bloomers”
BANFF – Readers may recall that in December 2012, CBS Corporation became the inaugural "Company of Distinction" for the Banff 2013 Media Fest – and with that came a slew […]
COMMENTARY: Is it time to tame the Wild West of online broadcasting?
WATCHED THE SOPRANOS on your cell phone lately? Streamed last week’s Coronation Street on your home computer? Or bought an episode of Corner Gas from iTunes? For a growing number […]
COMMENTARY: Troubling viewer complaints leads to internal scrutiny
WHEN YOU RUN A television network, you get used to complaints. It’s the price of doing business. Canadians are discerning viewers who demand a great deal from this country’s broadcasters […]