There are many in the new media community who would likely give anything to be in Maurizio Ortolani’s situation. As producer, new media at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre (NAC), he has access to one of the fastest networks in the world, produces podcasts and other digital media with some of the biggest names in the arts, and – perhaps best of all – works in a corporate culture where new media is a must-have.

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Contrary to all the talk of the constantly increasing migration of eyeballs from the television to computers – including a request from the Governor-in-Council that the CRTC prepare a report examining the impact on Canada’s broadcasting environment in the face of new technologies (CNM, Sept. 20/2006) – the Tween Media Usage report commissioned by Corus Entertainment Inc.’s YTV and performed by Solutions Research Group finds that the Internet has had a negligible impact on the tube.

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In an attempt to clarify the rules for offering television services over wireless carriers’ networks, the CRTC may have further muddied the operating environment by issuing two separate exemption orders for such services since they were first launched two years ago.

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The motion capture studio at Toronto’s Seneca College – the only independent facility of its kind in the province – is ready to really get moving. It was just awarded $150,000 for expansion, including a clean-up facility, from the Entertainment and Creative Partnerships Cluster Fund, an initiative administered by the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) on behalf of Ontario’s Ministry of Culture.

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