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TV fading to Blackett?
Monday June 21st 2010Why are there hundreds of channels but still nothing good on TV? According to Alberta Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett, one of the reasons is that the homegrown contribution is dreck. It’s lowest common denominator, cheap looking, contrived crap TV. We’ve been hearing fallout from guilds, unions and associations about how inappropriate it was for Blackett to say this. But they’re missing the point: it’s not about them.
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Cineplex acquiring DDC for $3.5 million
Monday June 21st 2010TORONTO — Canadian exhibition giant Cineplex Entertainment is to acquire North American digital signage group DDC Group International Inc. for $3.5 million. The deal for Waterloo, Ontario-based DDC comes as Toronto-based Cineplex continues to diversify away from operating 130 multiplexes nationwide and into digital media. The DDC acquisition is expected[…]
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Quebecor launches Canuck online video portal
Thursday June 17th 2010Quebecor Media on Wednesday launched a “TV Everywhere” offering for its Quebec cable subscribers. The on-demand Illico Web service will offer 32 online channels of video and music programming, including TVA, Radio-Canada, LCN, RDI, Meteomedia, Super Ecran and MusiquePlus, for Quebecor’s Videotron subscribers.
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Will Arnett’s follow-up to ‘Arrested Development’ hunts for Canadian network
Thursday June 17th 2010Canadian comic Will Arnett returned to his home country to shoot the pilot for his upcoming comedy, “Running Wilde,” but producers have deemed Vancouver not opulent enough to base the entire series there. Executives with Lionsgate Television offered a sneak peek of the show at the Banff World Television Festival this week, as they sought a Canadian broadcaster for the outlandish sitcom, in which Arnett stars as a wealthy playboy.
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Canuck media to grow faster than U.S. market
Wednesday June 16th 2010Canada’s entertainment and media market is to expand faster than the U.S. market to the south from 2010 to 2014, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said in its latest global industry outlook. “As Canada’s economy is recovering ahead of the U.S. economy, we expect that the Canadian advertising market will rebound more quickly,” Michael Paterson, Canadian co-editor of the Global Entertainment and Media Outlook at PwC, said Tuesday.
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Archives for: June 20105
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TV fading to Blackett?
Monday June 21st 2010Why are there hundreds of channels but still nothing good on TV? According to Alberta Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett, one of the reasons is that the homegrown contribution is dreck. It’s lowest common denominator, cheap looking, contrived crap TV. We’ve been hearing fallout from guilds, unions and associations about how inappropriate it was for Blackett to say this. But they’re missing the point: it’s not about them.
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Cineplex acquiring DDC for $3.5 million
Monday June 21st 2010TORONTO — Canadian exhibition giant Cineplex Entertainment is to acquire North American digital signage group DDC Group International Inc. for $3.5 million. The deal for Waterloo, Ontario-based DDC comes as Toronto-based Cineplex continues to diversify away from operating 130 multiplexes nationwide and into digital media. The DDC acquisition is expected[…]
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Quebecor launches Canuck online video portal
Thursday June 17th 2010Quebecor Media on Wednesday launched a “TV Everywhere” offering for its Quebec cable subscribers. The on-demand Illico Web service will offer 32 online channels of video and music programming, including TVA, Radio-Canada, LCN, RDI, Meteomedia, Super Ecran and MusiquePlus, for Quebecor’s Videotron subscribers.
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Will Arnett’s follow-up to ‘Arrested Development’ hunts for Canadian network
Thursday June 17th 2010Canadian comic Will Arnett returned to his home country to shoot the pilot for his upcoming comedy, “Running Wilde,” but producers have deemed Vancouver not opulent enough to base the entire series there. Executives with Lionsgate Television offered a sneak peek of the show at the Banff World Television Festival this week, as they sought a Canadian broadcaster for the outlandish sitcom, in which Arnett stars as a wealthy playboy.
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Canuck media to grow faster than U.S. market
Wednesday June 16th 2010Canada’s entertainment and media market is to expand faster than the U.S. market to the south from 2010 to 2014, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said in its latest global industry outlook. “As Canada’s economy is recovering ahead of the U.S. economy, we expect that the Canadian advertising market will rebound more quickly,” Michael Paterson, Canadian co-editor of the Global Entertainment and Media Outlook at PwC, said Tuesday.
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Archives for: June 20105
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TV fading to Blackett?
Monday June 21st 2010Why are there hundreds of channels but still nothing good on TV? According to Alberta Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett, one of the reasons is that the homegrown contribution is dreck. It’s lowest common denominator, cheap looking, contrived crap TV. We’ve been hearing fallout from guilds, unions and associations about how inappropriate it was for Blackett to say this. But they’re missing the point: it’s not about them.
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Cineplex acquiring DDC for $3.5 million
Monday June 21st 2010TORONTO — Canadian exhibition giant Cineplex Entertainment is to acquire North American digital signage group DDC Group International Inc. for $3.5 million. The deal for Waterloo, Ontario-based DDC comes as Toronto-based Cineplex continues to diversify away from operating 130 multiplexes nationwide and into digital media. The DDC acquisition is expected[…]
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Quebecor launches Canuck online video portal
Thursday June 17th 2010Quebecor Media on Wednesday launched a “TV Everywhere” offering for its Quebec cable subscribers. The on-demand Illico Web service will offer 32 online channels of video and music programming, including TVA, Radio-Canada, LCN, RDI, Meteomedia, Super Ecran and MusiquePlus, for Quebecor’s Videotron subscribers.
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Will Arnett’s follow-up to ‘Arrested Development’ hunts for Canadian network
Thursday June 17th 2010Canadian comic Will Arnett returned to his home country to shoot the pilot for his upcoming comedy, “Running Wilde,” but producers have deemed Vancouver not opulent enough to base the entire series there. Executives with Lionsgate Television offered a sneak peek of the show at the Banff World Television Festival this week, as they sought a Canadian broadcaster for the outlandish sitcom, in which Arnett stars as a wealthy playboy.
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Canuck media to grow faster than U.S. market
Wednesday June 16th 2010Canada’s entertainment and media market is to expand faster than the U.S. market to the south from 2010 to 2014, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said in its latest global industry outlook. “As Canada’s economy is recovering ahead of the U.S. economy, we expect that the Canadian advertising market will rebound more quickly,” Michael Paterson, Canadian co-editor of the Global Entertainment and Media Outlook at PwC, said Tuesday.
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