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Archives for: October 20095
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Carriage battle brewing in Canada
Monday October 26th 2009The economic downturn and increasing audience fragmentation is hitting advertising revenue hard at North America’s broadcasters, forcing them to come up with new ways to shore up their bottom lines. A comparatively quick fix being explored on both sides of the border is collecting retransmission fees for free-to-air channels that[…]
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Canadian helmers honor ‘Passchendaele’
Monday October 26th 2009“Passchendaele” continued its winning ways Saturday night at the eighth annual Directors Guild of Canada Awards as it picked up the best feature film team trophy. The Canadian war epic earlier this year picked up six trophies, including best Canadian movie and a slew of craft awards, at the Genies, Canada’s film awards.
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Shaw Communications earnings dip
Monday October 26th 2009TORONTO — Despite customer growth and rate increases, Canadian cable giant Shaw Communications on Friday posted a 6% fall in fourth-quarter earnings and a fiscal 2009 earnings slide. Canada’s second-largest cable operator posted three-month earnings to Aug. 31 at CAN$124 million ($118.2 million), against a profit of CAN$132.3 million in[…]
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Biz eyes FCC’s moves online
Friday October 23rd 2009The FCC on Thursday began the formal process of establishing a set of “rules for the road” for Internet service providers, setting off a policy debate that could spark a clash between showbiz concerns on the piracy front and the open access push favored by many Netcos plus the Obama administration. As the industry moves increasingly to Web-based business models, such as the “Keychest” video-on-demand initiative that Disney is developing, issues involving the regulation of the Internet become of greater importance to Hollywood’s majors
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Study: Studios must pay for film profits
Friday October 23rd 2009It takes money to make money. That’s the essence of a newly released study by SNL Kagan, which found that pics toting the biggest negative cost also tend to fetch the most profit. Kagan’s “Economics of Motion Pictures” analyzed costs and profits of all films released on 1,000 or more[…]
ARCHIVES
Archives for: October 20095
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Carriage battle brewing in Canada
Monday October 26th 2009The economic downturn and increasing audience fragmentation is hitting advertising revenue hard at North America’s broadcasters, forcing them to come up with new ways to shore up their bottom lines. A comparatively quick fix being explored on both sides of the border is collecting retransmission fees for free-to-air channels that[…]
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Canadian helmers honor ‘Passchendaele’
Monday October 26th 2009“Passchendaele” continued its winning ways Saturday night at the eighth annual Directors Guild of Canada Awards as it picked up the best feature film team trophy. The Canadian war epic earlier this year picked up six trophies, including best Canadian movie and a slew of craft awards, at the Genies, Canada’s film awards.
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Shaw Communications earnings dip
Monday October 26th 2009TORONTO — Despite customer growth and rate increases, Canadian cable giant Shaw Communications on Friday posted a 6% fall in fourth-quarter earnings and a fiscal 2009 earnings slide. Canada’s second-largest cable operator posted three-month earnings to Aug. 31 at CAN$124 million ($118.2 million), against a profit of CAN$132.3 million in[…]
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Biz eyes FCC’s moves online
Friday October 23rd 2009The FCC on Thursday began the formal process of establishing a set of “rules for the road” for Internet service providers, setting off a policy debate that could spark a clash between showbiz concerns on the piracy front and the open access push favored by many Netcos plus the Obama administration. As the industry moves increasingly to Web-based business models, such as the “Keychest” video-on-demand initiative that Disney is developing, issues involving the regulation of the Internet become of greater importance to Hollywood’s majors
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Study: Studios must pay for film profits
Friday October 23rd 2009It takes money to make money. That’s the essence of a newly released study by SNL Kagan, which found that pics toting the biggest negative cost also tend to fetch the most profit. Kagan’s “Economics of Motion Pictures” analyzed costs and profits of all films released on 1,000 or more[…]
ARCHIVES
Archives for: October 20095
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Carriage battle brewing in Canada
Monday October 26th 2009The economic downturn and increasing audience fragmentation is hitting advertising revenue hard at North America’s broadcasters, forcing them to come up with new ways to shore up their bottom lines. A comparatively quick fix being explored on both sides of the border is collecting retransmission fees for free-to-air channels that[…]
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Canadian helmers honor ‘Passchendaele’
Monday October 26th 2009“Passchendaele” continued its winning ways Saturday night at the eighth annual Directors Guild of Canada Awards as it picked up the best feature film team trophy. The Canadian war epic earlier this year picked up six trophies, including best Canadian movie and a slew of craft awards, at the Genies, Canada’s film awards.
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Shaw Communications earnings dip
Monday October 26th 2009TORONTO — Despite customer growth and rate increases, Canadian cable giant Shaw Communications on Friday posted a 6% fall in fourth-quarter earnings and a fiscal 2009 earnings slide. Canada’s second-largest cable operator posted three-month earnings to Aug. 31 at CAN$124 million ($118.2 million), against a profit of CAN$132.3 million in[…]
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Biz eyes FCC’s moves online
Friday October 23rd 2009The FCC on Thursday began the formal process of establishing a set of “rules for the road” for Internet service providers, setting off a policy debate that could spark a clash between showbiz concerns on the piracy front and the open access push favored by many Netcos plus the Obama administration. As the industry moves increasingly to Web-based business models, such as the “Keychest” video-on-demand initiative that Disney is developing, issues involving the regulation of the Internet become of greater importance to Hollywood’s majors
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Study: Studios must pay for film profits
Friday October 23rd 2009It takes money to make money. That’s the essence of a newly released study by SNL Kagan, which found that pics toting the biggest negative cost also tend to fetch the most profit. Kagan’s “Economics of Motion Pictures” analyzed costs and profits of all films released on 1,000 or more[…]
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