Government support of digital new media – PWC report

PriceWaterhouseCoopers (Canada), Big Table of Digital Media and Animation Incentives 2009 shows that provinces other than Alberta provide some form of tax relief to investors in digital media companies. Where’s the Alberta Advantage here? A quote from the Big Table: “As digital migration accelerates, digital spending will remain the entertainment and media industry’s main engine […]

Television studio in your basement – TWiT TV

Leo Laporte has been in broadcasting for years. Decades actually. He was early to embrace podcasting and now operates the TWiT network of shows which he calls Netcasts. Leo is an inspiration to many podcasters, audio or video based and continues to investigate new ways of using the web to bring news, information and entertainment […]

Hyper-local news and media

With the closing of our local television station, CHCA-TV my ears perk up when ever I hear via radio, TV, blogs or face2face conversations mention of possible new options. On Sunday, while we were driving down to Innisfail to meet-up with some friends, CBC news from Calgary was on the Jeep’s radio (yes – I […]

Microsoft to launch WebTV in the UK

Next week, MicroSoft will launch a WebTV service playing episodic shows in the UK. Destined to go head to head with other such services there are no plans to rebroadcast current shows or full length movies. Why would MS want to get into the online TV content/re-broadcast business? Here’s a quote from the the Web […]

Save our local TV or at least create something new

With the demise of our local TV station set for August 31 and with rumors that the last show will broadcast on August 28 maybe there should be some planning for a new station in Red Deer. So far I haven’t heard much from our community on this but I do hear lots from Victoria […]

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Microsoft to launch WebTV in the UK