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Baroness von Sketch Show picks up two Rockie Awards

Baroness von Sketch Show picked up two awards at Monday evening's Rockie Awards International Program Competition, held in conjunction with the Banff World Media...

Banff Accelerator for Women in the Business of Media gets $2M funding boost

The Banff World Media Festival kicked off with a major federal funding announcement aimed at empowering women in business, and in particular female entrepreneurs...

CBC/Radio-Canada makes new diversity commitment

CBC/Radio-Canada has pledged to ensure by 2025 that at least one of the key creative positions (producer, director, writer, showrunner or lead performer) on...

TV & Film News – Upfronts unveil 2019/20 TV schedules

Upfront presentations unveiling what’s in store for the 2019/20 TV schedules have been held by most of the major broadcasters. Corus’ presentation included the...

Amazon Prime Video Channels coming to Canada

Amazon has announced the launch of Prime Video Channels for Canada, which will allow Canadians to stream a suite of TV stations and channels...

Raptors set another NBA broadcast record in Canada

For the third time in two weeks, the Toronto Raptors have set an NBA broadcast record in Canada. Thursday night’s Game 1 of the NBA...

ACTRA and DGC launch harassment helpline

ACTRA and the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) are jointly launching a helpline where members can report workplace and on set harassment and seek...

TV & Film News – CMPA & WGC reach new Independent Production Agreement

The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) and the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) have reached an agreement in principle on the terms for a...

Sportsnet releases Toronto Raptors NBA Finals broadcast sched

Sportsnet has released its NBA Finals broadcast schedule, following the Toronto Raptors' victory Saturday night which will see the team head to the finals...

OMNI programming to remain status quo until fall 2020: Rogers

Following Thursday's CRTC decision maintaining OMNI Regional as Canada's national, multi-ethnic television service, Rogers says the service's current programming slate will remain status quo...

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