Deborah Andrews has been named national director, Mentorship Program, of the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association. Andrews has worked with youth organizations for more than 20 years, including Children's Aid Societies, community resource centers and The Door/La Porte. The CFTPA National Mentorship Program offers both the International Intern Program for Canadian Youth and the Production Internship Program for Canadian Youth.

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CHUM begins PC broadcasting on iMagic's SoftTV platform
ChumCity Interactive has authorized the trial airing of broadcast television programming over iMagicTV's SoftTV platform to enable service providers to offer interactive television on subscribers' desktop PCs. iMagicTV plans to expand the trial of its SoftTV product with one of its North American customers. The trial project enables content providers to deliver via the PC (over a service provider's secure, managed network) a choice of high quality programming that fits with their viewers' lifestyles.

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The recent spate of media mergers across North America, combined with the growing proliferation of the Internet, has given the cable industry the ammunition it needs to lobby for substantive changes in how broadcast distributors are regulated in Canada.

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Digital television will combine the interactivity of the web with the simplicity of conventional TV to create a new medium that can compete with the Internet for a large share of online revenues, a senior broadcast executive said.

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Executives of a Scarborough ON company are anxious to begin selling their V-chip systems in Canada, but first they need broadcasters to develop an encoded rating system for the technology. V.gis Technologies Ltd president Najmul Siddiqui, whose company markets external V-chip systems, met with CRTC officials at the beginning of April to talk about progress on V-chip rules, and the urgency of having broadcasters move quickly on this issue.

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What remains of Canada's grey market in satellite TV could come to an abrupt end this year depending on the outcome of two separate court cases scheduled to begin in late May. The lawyer representing Bell ExpressVu LP and other rights holders says the cases are significant because they will bring an end to any uncertainty surrounding the applicability of the Radiocommunications Act in fighting grey market crime.

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