Overview

The book aims to provide context for discussion of new technologies and resulting policy changes that will impact the way media is produced and consumed in Canada.  Major areas addressed:

• What people watch on TV, and how they watch it; the benefits of TV, and the changing relationship between viewers and TV
• Review of established TV technologies, including cable, VCR and remote control
• Review of new TV innovations, including CD-ROM and HDTV
• The fate of Canadian filmmaking as movie consumption moves from the theatres to the TV at home
• Current Canadian content rules as they relate to the internationalization and fragmentation of TV markets and production; whether rules defining Canadian content should be changed
• Methods and reasons for the regulation of TV in Canada; whether these regulations should be altered to better serve producers and the public
• The increasing influence of other sectors’ technology on the TV industry; how Canadian media can thrive in the face of convergence

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