CBC recently wrapped up a successful mobile broadcast multimedia field trial using “T-DMB” technology in the Greater Montreal area. The trial broadcasted two live TV services and multiple live radio services within its existing digital radio broadcasting channel.

green.tv is a web TV channel dedicated to the environment. The aim of green.tv is to raise awareness of environmental issues, especially climate change. We try to do this by collating watchable, engaging films and publishing them online.

It’s too bad that they don’t have embedable videos because I would have loved to put one here.

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CP is reporting on the Corus firings and says:

In the television advertising sales group, the company has realigned the Teletoon and YTV sales teams to create a single group dedicated to the children’s demographic and another to the youth/adult demographic.

The information technology department has been revamped to enhance current service levels and to prepare for the move of Corus’ Toronto-based employees to a new broadcast facility in 2009/10.

MyChurch is a a MySpace clone but for church communities. LOL!

Facebook is Fastest Growing Social Network in Europe

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Sites that Pay Filmmakers and Video Producers

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Last100 has reviewed them to figure out who has the best online service.

Their online offerings remain sporadic; their Internet strategies feel like “we have to” rather than “we want to”; and — worst of all — they still haven’t embraced the idea that we are living in a new digital world, with different rules, participants, and expectations all around.

We’ve looked at the online offerings of the five major networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and The CW — and sadly no one is blowing the game wide open, although they’re trying. To their credit, the networks are offering some of their top-rated shows online, viewable on their own websites.

HBO has purchased a machinima video made entirely in Second Life. The video was originally conceived to be sold to broadcasters, but things went great quickly when the first episode was released online by accident. A bidding war commenced and clearly HBO won.

New World Notes, a site dedicated to Second Life, covers the story and they interviewed the creator:

Because of all this and Gayeton’s relations in the film industry (more on those later), the HBO deal might very well be a disruptive one, transforming SL machinima into an accepted tool for established filmmakers.

On the other hand, Showtime is promoting their show Weeds online by asking fans to submit an introduction to the show. Ever episode of Weeds begins with a different artist performing the song “Little Boxes”. Artists such as Regina Spektor and Death Cab for Cutie have done their reditions of the song. Now they want homegrown stuff, that is they want you to make your own rendition of “Little Boxes”.

When it comes to the user generated intros, the one inspired by Daft Punk is the best.

First up is the Professional Writers Association of Canada, and they want your money. They would very much like it if you became a member of their association. The benefits include getting listed in their directory and being able to attend their professional development workshops. At the same time, they are also run Writers.ca which has fee guidelines.

The PWAC blog is updated with relevant industry news frequently. You don’t need to be a member to read the blog.

Copyright information in the digital age is still being figured out and it’s important to stay abreast of developments in this area. Luckily people are doing this for the Canadian public. Digital Copyright Canada cares about what’s going on, so does Michael Giest.

For general tips on writing there is always the Crafty TV Writing FAQ. I’m sure Google will also provide the confused with some guidance too.

Worried that writers, like the rest of the Canadian film industry, are in less demand? Well, tomorrow Toronto is set to make an announcement on this very issue.

MIPCOM is best described on their site:

MIPCOM is the global content event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content across all platforms. It provides the key decision-makers in the TV, film, digital and audiovisual content, production and distribution industry with the only market conference and networking forum to discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level.

Sounds pretty impressive! Indeed it is, they expect over 12,500 attendees and more than 4,000 companies.

MIPCOM has a sister event named MIPTV that happens in the spring (yes, also in Cannes) that is focused on the same things as MIPCOM. It appears that MIPCOM covers more territory though. Also in April is MIPDOC for documentaries – if you couldn’t tell from the name alone.

For shows focused on the younger demographics, MIPCOM Junior is the place to be. It is a shorter event that happens just before MIPCOM begins in October.

Emmys go interactive. I get the feeling I should care more about this than I do

MySpace’s first mobile initiative in Canada launched on Rogers Wireless. Glad I’m with Telus.

Business want to pay for custom video games! This is an interesting article that is really worth reading, indeed it should be given it’s own post here.

The internet is now content-driven as opposed to communication-driven.

Massive live-action role-playing game set on record attempt at PAX