Producers weigh Bell-Astral II. “Mono-culture” or “balanced benefits”?
HOURS BEFORE THE CMPA’s Prime Time in Ottawa convention assembled Canada's English and French producers, broadcasters, funders, regulators and digital platform experts, Bell Media made public its second application to […]
CMPA PRIME TIME: Starlight pitch recalls timeworn Canadian film debate
OTTAWA – Canadian Media Production Association past-president Norm Bolen focused the final presentation at Prime Time in Ottawa 2013 on the presence – or lack – of Canadian feature films on […]
CMPA PRIME TIME: With so many new digital avenues, producers ask if we still need broadcasters
OTTAWA ? Every content producer can follow unique logic in deciding whether to extend a content brand beyond its original media platform in today?s transmedia landscape ? and if the […]
The Cartt.ca Interview: Real Cancon spending and terms of trade are musts, says CFTPA CEO Norm Bolen
IT MAY NOT BE UNTIL 2010 when the CRTC holds licence renewal proceedings for the big Canadian TV companies, but the new chief executive of Canada’s national producers association has […]
HERITAGE COMMITTEE: Politicians hear from the ones who play them on TV
OTTAWA – After Canada’s major English-language performers’ union and a community TV association testified before the Heritage Standing Committee about Canadian TV content rules, a specialty broadcaster raised concerns about […]
OTA Hearing: Producers, writers, directors argue Cancon can turn a profit
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – May 7, 2009 – Is Cancon a cost centre or a break-even proposition for Canada’s over-the-air broadcasters? Among all the issues raised Thursday by independent producers, writers and […]
OTA Hearing: Tensions run high as commissioners push CTV to keep stations open
GATINEAU – This morning, CTV began its second appearance before the CRTC’s OTA licence renewal hearing this week with some tense exchanges with the panel’s commissioners, some unvarnished attacks on […]
OTA hearing: Analog dollars becoming digital dimes in conventional TV
GATINEAU – April 27, 2009 – It was low-key, seldom confrontational and sometimes as languid as the 30-degree heat outside, but CTV’s appearance to open the CRTC’s OTA licence renewal […]
April hearings take centre stage at Prime Time
OTTAWA – As the CRTC considers how the scope of April’s OTA licence renewal hearings might be “significantly narrowed or reduced”, given the severe economic fallout on broadcasters’ balance sheets, […]
Prime Time 2009: Canadian TV production shrinking
OTTAWA – Before the “economic downturn,” before the impressive decline in advertising revenues and even before the 2008 upfront ad sales began in earnest, the volume of Canadian television production […]