- Sept 2008
- Ontario Industry Survey Reveals Picture Of VFX And Animation Economy
- Animation World Network - Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Conducted by Nordicity Group, the project received funding assistance from the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), York University, Royal Bank of ... Click here for the full story
- Sept 2008
- TV dominates CG Industry
- OTTAWA -- Curb your enthusiasm about the web: TV and movies still pay the bills for Ontario's computer animation and VFX industry. So says a study released at the Ottawa International Animation Festival Thursday night.
- The study, commissioned by the Computer Animation Studios of Ontario Association and compiled by Nordicity Group, found that TV series and commercials accounted for 62% of the computer animation industry's 2007 revenues, with feature films bringing in another 16%. Meanwhile, VFX studios got 29% of their 2007 income from TV series/commercials, with another 44% coming from feature films. Click here for the full story
- July 2008 - Ottawa Citizen
- Study calls for film, TV production centre.
- The region is developing into a secondary market for film and television productions, said the feasibility study released yesterday by The Nordicity Group ...(click to read more)
- Aug 2007
- Aussie rules eyed for media mergers
- Grant Robertson, Globe and Mail Update, August 6, 2007
- In the aftermath of three major takeovers in the Canadian broadcasting sector, federal regulators appear poised to consider revamping the rules on media consolidation, using a system pioneered last year by the Australian government. The CFTPA, (…) commissioned Nordicity Group Ltd., a consulting firm, to study the Australian method.
- “The application of Australia's points system to seven Canadian media markets shows that the approved and proposed merger transactions should raise serious concerns about cross-media ownership and media diversity,” Nordicity said. (click to read more)
- June 2007
- Broadcasters, BDUs and regulators, don’t forget your Jim exercises
- Kurt Eby, Decima Reports, July 5, 2007
- Jim seems like a regular guy. He went to university, found a job after graduation, pays rent and would like to own a home someday. But in spite of his regularity, Jim does not have the patience, money, or need for our regulated broadcasting system.
- The idea of Jim as the model TV-to-Internet-shifter comes from Nordicity Group Ltd.'s Terri Wills, who presented the idea at the Insight Telecommunications and Broadcasting Conference in May. It stems from her time working in strategy at BBC where they would use focus groups and create case studies to better understand media consumption habits. (click to read more)
- June 2007
- The future of TV? On-demand, and online
- James Lewis, Decima Reports, June 22, 2007
- Perhaps the most telling aspect of the final session at this year's Banff World Television Festival, billed as a critical look at ‘The Future of Television,' was that it ended with an hour-long talk about the Internet. The panel discussion aimed to address three key questions raised by Nordicity Group Ltd.'s Banff Green Paper 2007 (click to read more)
- June 2007
- Report: Internet threat to TV not imminent
- Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, June 7, 2007
- TORONTO -- The emerging Internet may be turning traditional broadcasting upside down, but it won't kill the TV star anytime soon.
That's the conclusion of a report commissioned by the Banff World Television Festival to spur debate during this year's TV/new-media gabfest,which gets under way Sunday. (click to read more)
- June 2007
- Internet won't kill the TV star, but it could cause disruptions
- Grant Robertson, Globe and Mail, June 6, 2007
- The Internet has been touted as a rival that could destroy network television, but a new report on the Canadian TV sector suggests the two are destined to live side by side - though not necessarily in harmony. (click to read more)
- June 2007
- Big TV changes ahead, says report
- Playback Magazine, June, 6 2007
- A report on the future of Canadian television due to be discussed at next week's Banff World Television Festival says the rise of online TV, new distribution technologies and changing revenue streams "are threatening an imminent collapse" of the broadcast system in this country, though it goes on to predict that old and new media can come to co-exist. (click here to read more)
- May 2007
- Seven must-attend sessions
- Playback Magazine, May 28, 2007
- This year's Banff World Television Festival is so content-rich that narrowing down which sessions to attend might be harder to solve than a murder on CSI. Nonetheless, we've done our investigating, and below present seven must-see events. Too bad you can't set your PVR, because some of the sessions overlap. (click here to read more)
- May 2007
- Nordicity talks media mergers and the future of television with TVO’s Steve Paikin (click here to read more)
- March 2007 2007
- Grab kids growing up digital: Nordicity
- Decima Reports, March 16, 2007
- The Nordicity Group recently released a report on the future of children’s programming. In the section dealing with the current state of the industry, an excerpt from which appears below, Nordicity argues that the genre is the perfect vehicle for reaching younger demographics in the on-demand, multi-platform era. (click here to read more)
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