CFTPA 2006: Who owns what? Digital rights management a brave new world
OTTAWA – Once upon a time, the boys and girls in the content production and delivery business gathered for many huddles. They were figuring out how to pass film and […]
CFTPA 2006: CRTC chair hints at TV Policy review
OTTAWA – While CRTC chairman Charles Dalfen said little to surprise independent producers in his annual address at the CFTPA’s national conference, he did hint at something that could delight […]
CFTPA 2006: CBC TV re-thunk, again
OTTAWA – CBC TV is making a bold, and some say scary, bid for bigger audiences by redefining the very foundations of its programming strategy, according to preliminary information presented […]
Cultural politics backstage at the Geminis
TORONTO – Politics came to the winners’ podium Saturday night at the Gemini Awards when outspoken Vancouver producer Chris Haddock (DaVinci’s City Hall) got on his soap box after snagging […]
ANALYSIS: Is CTV unstoppable?
IS CTV DESTINED FOR TOTAL Canadian television domination? Ratings currently available for the season-to-date, measuring from the first week of September, can be spun to suggest almost anything. But depending […]
UNESCO adopts Canada’s cultural protection convention; U.S. opposes
OTTAWA – Major backers of an international convention on cultural protection are delighted it was adopted by the U.N.’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) last Thursday in Paris, but […]
Canada pushes UNESCO convention on cultural protection
OTTAWA – A collection of Canada’s leading cultural organizations emerged from a meeting with the federal culture minister and several of her provincial/territorial counterparts Monday, united in their determination to […]
Broadcasters give advice at Television Animation Conference
OTTAWA – Technology is making it easier to create animated programming, and adding multiple new distribution platforms, but as broadcasters told creators repeatedly during the second annual Television Animation Conference, […]
A CARTT.CA ORIGINAL: The few, the powerful, the TV critics — and their fall picks
OTTAWA – Cheers for the upswing in scripted dramas, cheers for the downturn in reality, scorn for the plague of ‘amber alert’ series and Lost imitators, howls for the once-mighty […]
A CARTT.CA ORIGINAL: “Single-digit increases” in fall 2005 upfront TV ad sales market
TORONTO – The Donald and The Hair may have sold media buyers on the continuing strength of The Apprentice when Mr. Trump made an entrance at Global’s 2005 fall launch, […]