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  Discovery Channel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Discovery Channel is an American cable TV network, based in Silver Spring, Maryland, that has a variety of science programming, particularly documentaries and nature shows.
Discovery Channel Radio is a channel on both of the major United States satellite radio services: XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio.
In a number of countries, Discovery's channels are available on digital satellite platforms with multiple language soundtracks or subtitles (including Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Greek, Polish, Hungarian, and Romanian).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Discovery_Channel   (629 words)

  
 Escape To Canada premiere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Canada now has marijuana cafes in every major city; gay marriage is legal from coast to coast; topless women are not the issue they are in the US.
The idea that Canada is the real freedom-loving country in North America has re-ignited and the double combo of gay marriage and relaxed marijuana laws is changing Canada.
Canada is increasingly the focal point for personal freedom issues - over the right to gay marriage, the war on drugs, even the freedom for women to go topless.
www.cannabisculture.com /articles/4507.html   (275 words)

  
 Canadian Genealogy and History Links - National
Canada's Orange Roots At the turn of the 20th century it was estimated that one in three Protestant males was a member of an Orange Lodge in Canada.
Orange Roots and Heritage in Canada At the turn of the 20th century it was estimated that one in three Protestant males was a member of an Orange Lodge in Canada.
Canada, by Train A short history of railways in Canada, a collection of railway advertising, and the contribution of railways to the growth of Canada.
www.islandnet.com /~jveinot/cghl/national.html   (8609 words)

  
 Documentary Channel - Series
The four-part series NFB Pioneers captures the enduring legacy of an extraordinary group of filmmakers who worked at the National Film Board in the early beginnings and revolutionized the art of documentary filmmaking.
In the 1950's and early 1960's, their daring use of new technology redefined the art of documentary and brought filmmaking to a new level.
Now, with documentary filmmaking and the NFB in the midst of a new renaissance, these achievements are a legacy which continues to inspire and amaze.
www.documentarychannel.ca /shows/index.asp   (187 words)

  
 CHANNEL CANADA :: Canada's Entertainment and Broadcasting Information
ET Canada is ahead of eTalk Daily nationally in every key advertising demographic including viewers 18-49 and 25-54, women 18-49 and 25-54, and men 18-49 and 25-54.
Since ET Canada's premiere, eTalk Daily is down 21.4 per cent among adults 18-49 and down 23.2 per cent among adults 25-54 when compared with the same period last year.
XM Canada has announced its program lineup that will be brought to Canadians, from coast to coast in time for this year's holiday season.
channelcanada.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&...   (2140 words)

  
 Canadiana -- The Canadian Resource Page
Debates of the House of Commons of Canada (Hansard)
Supreme Court of Canada decisions (courtesy the Supreme Court of Canada and the Centre de recherche en droit public of the Université de Montréal)
Canada at War: The Valour and the Horror
www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/clamen/misc/Canadiana/README.html   (518 words)

  
 Business Wire: New York Times Television/Discovery Times Channel, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and ZDF ...
ZDF's core operation is its nationwide television channel, which went on the air in 1963 and today reaches its viewers by cable, satellite or terrestrial antenna, both in analog and digital formats.
With a clear focus on news and current affairs, ZDF is also particularly successful with documentaries, fiction and sports programs, and has proved able to defend a leading position in the highly competitive environment of currently more than 30 German public or commercial free-to-air television channels.
S4C is a Welsh language television channel broadcasting in Wales, United Kingdom, which was established in response to demands for a channel to cater for the Welsh-speaking minority population in Wales.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_Oct_4/ai_n6220403   (1148 words)

  
 EXN.ca
We're also the web companion to Daily Planet, Discovery Channel Canada's daily science show bringing the lab to your living room.
Discovery Channel Canada is Canada's top-rated network for viewer satisfaction.
As a producer and broadcaster of documentary programming, Discovery Channel Canada is internationally recognized for innovation and quality in all areas of the broadcast industry.
www.exn.ca /aboutUs   (253 words)

  
 Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Diary (Old)
The big topics of gossip at the con was the fact that a member of SF Canada (a ten-year-old writers' group) had absconded with all of the organization's funds, putting the group's future in real jeopardy (gee, and I thought I'd had problems to deal with when I was SFWA president!).
There I was interviewed for a TV documentary that will air early in 2000; the documentary is part of a series on architecture, and this installment was about domes.
The documentary is entitled "Inventing the Future: 2000 Years of Discovery," and deals with the last thousand years of scientific progress and my predictions for what the next thousand years will bring.
www.sfwriter.com /diaryold.htm   (16741 words)

  
 Hurricane and Storm Chaser Interviews - Weathervine.com
The segment was on intercepting Hurricane Lili and
for BNVN and The Weather Channel as a stringer.
documentary on lightning and hurricane chasing in the United States.
weathervine.com /media   (699 words)

  
 Information Policy: Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
John Sopinka is a Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada.
The Stentor Alliance is the partnership of Canada's major telecommunications companies.
Canada's fast lane Canadian content must get its own reserved routes on the information highway...
www.ifla.org /II/canada.htm   (846 words)

  
 RealScreen - Canadian digi-channels open doors to docs
Of the 16 English-language channels awarded Category 1 approval — meaning they have guaranteed carriage — six in particular look to have strong doc potential.
We will talk about the person in a Biography episode, then we might do a documentary that is related to their life or we will do a film.
As an example, Clayton describes the channel’s approach to Anna Leonowens, author of Anna and the King of Siam.
www.realscreen.com /articles/plus/20001207/Cancon.html   (291 words)

  
 CBC News - Indepth Backgrounder: Digital Television
The news broadcasts will provide Canadians with information and insights into markets, weather and climate, the condition of the environment and the lifestyle interests of rural Canadians on a level that is not currently found on national television.
The Nature of Things Hosted by award winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster, David Suzuki, explains the complexities of natural sciences premiers September 7 at 7:00 PM All Creatures Great and Small One of BBC Television's most popular comedy drama series based on the novels of James Herriot on September 7 at 9:00 PM.
It debuts September 9th at 1:00 PM with Two Rode Together, director John Ford's story of a 19th century U.S. marshal (James Stewart) who is conned by an army lieutenant into negotiating with Comanche warriors for the release of white prisoners.
cbc.ca /dawnofdigital/digitalcountry.html   (321 words)

  
 Claudia Molina Pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
She has also worked as a field director for the Documentary TV Series Girl Racers produced by Screen Sirens.
Claudia has finished a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and is a graduate of the Alliance Atlantis Directors’ Lab and The Universal Studios Short Dramatic Film Program at the Norman Jewison Canadian Film Centre in Toronto.
Broadcast by: Oxygen in the USA, Radio Canada, Documentary Channel, and W Network.
www.claudiamolinapictures.com   (337 words)

  
 Media Monitor - Times TV Exposes "Da Vinci Code" - August 25, 2005
One of the interesting parts of the documentary involves an inquiry into the Priory of Sion, the organization that is supposed to possess the truth about Jesus that the church doesn't want you to know.
In his book, Brown describes it as a European secret society and "a real organization." But the documentary makes a strong case that the group is a complete fraud and hoax cooked up by a few Frenchmen.
But the documentary carried by the Discovery Times channel is not kind to Brown, who refused to be interviewed because he is said to be at work on his next novel.
www.aim.org /media_monitor/3960_0_2_0_C   (566 words)

  
 Corus Entertainment - TV:Documentary Channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Documentary Channel is Canada’s television destination for film-lovers, passion-seekers and those hungry for fresh ideas and perspectives.
Launched in the fall of 2001, The Documentary Channel is home to the most innovative, engrossing, edgy and entertaining documentaries and films from around the world.
The Documentary Channel is a partnership of Corus Entertainment Inc., the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the National Film Board and four prominent Canadian independent producers — Barna-Alper Productions Inc., CineNova Productions Inc., Galafilm Inc. and OMNI Film Productions Ltd.
www.corusent.com /tv/documentary_channel/index.asp   (125 words)

  
 hot docs : Media : press releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The IAC is a group of international documentary professionals that provides critical guidance to Hot Docs in the development of its market and industry programmes, and offers up-to-the-minute information on market trends.
Hot Docs, North America's largest documentary festival, will present its ninth annual edition April 26 - May 5, 2002 in Toronto with over 100 of the year's most innovative, provocative, and cutting-edge documentaries from Canada and around the world.
An expanded industry programme, including the third annual Toronto Documentary Forum, will also be presented.
www.hotdocs.ca /media_press_18.cfm   (195 words)

  
 SPAWN.COM >> NEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
TDC is a new Canadian channel launching Friday, Sept. 7 broadcasting across Canada to households equipped with either satellite or digital TV.
Developed for the National Film Board of Canada, the 77-minute documentary is the first-ever featuring Todd.
The film debuted one year ago at the Calgary Film Festival, and tells the story of Todd as a multifaceted businessman, family man and sports fan.
www.spawn.com /news/print.aspx?id=5256   (194 words)

  
 2-Documentary Channel — Canadian television’s leading source for documentary films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Our program guide is now available for download.
This verite documentary goes inside the maximum-security walls of New Jersey State Prison, with surprising results.
The story that the news won’t tell and politicians never sell: a street-level view of war in Iraq, as experienced by a group of U.S. soldiers known as “The Gunners’.
www.documentarychannel.ca   (172 words)

  
 AMERICAN WAITRESS, new mexico, The Documentary
AMERICAN WAITRESS, new mexico is a documentary feature film that examines the lives, attitudes, perceptions and experiences of waitresses.
It is being used in university and high school curriculums, and has been featured in interviews with THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, VARIETY, MARKEE MAGAZINE and many others.
It has recently been purchased by THE DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL in Canada and RIALTO CHANNEL in New Zealand.
www.americanwaitress.com /the_doc.htm   (227 words)

  
 Storm King Music Festival - Composer & Artist Biographies
Those moments between Drums and Space where the music was flowing and the lights throbbing and no one seemed to be on stage were usually Bralove wailing on a synth behind the drum riser.
Woodwind Wizardry debuted at the Harlem School of the Arts, where it was filmed for the Discovery Channel Canada documentary series, Grand Illusion, the Story of Magic..
Originally from Springfield, Ohio, he is currently the principal trumpet with the Ridgefield Symphony (Connecticut), associate principal trumpet of the Queens Symphony (NYC), cornet soloist with the New York Ragtime Orchestra, and a member of the Modern Brass Quintet (NYC).
www.stormkingmusic.org /sk02/Bios.htm   (13315 words)

  
 Results for Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Discovery Channel Canada explores the scientific possibilities of Star Wars in a real-world setting.
Investigate the suicide of Dawn-Marie Wesley, a teen girl from a small town in Canada who was a victim of female relational aggression.
The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, offers three main areas of study: animation, film production, and cinema studies.
www.muestrario.com /directory/search/Canada   (331 words)

  
 Rotten Tomatoes Forums - First Time seeing L' Avventura...(Spoilers)
By the way, Antonioni's Blowup is on the Documentary Channel (Canada) tomorrow at 8 eastern.
La Dolce Vita is on my "to see" list.
Channel, but thanks for the heads up anyway.
www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=240951   (2532 words)

  
 Woodwind Wizardry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A professional woodwind quintet joins magician/narrator Margaret Steele and Angel the Wonder Cockatiel in a forty-five minute concert guaranteed to hold kids' attention and help them learn to love music.
Designed and written by Margaret Steele, this program was first performed at New York's Harlem School of the Arts, and then featured on the Discovery Channel Canada documentary Grand Illusion, The Story of Magic.
Woodwind Wizardry is on the Arts-in-Education rosters of both the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Queens Symphony Orchestra, and has been performed in schools throughout New York and New Jersey.
www.amazingmagicshow.com /ww.htm   (119 words)

  
 Democratic Underground Forums - Mas Santos makes offer to talk with Cuba leaders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This classic documentary is a remarkably informative and engaging portrait of the early years of the Cuban Revolution.
"Quienes Son?" is an experimental short film that combines elements of documentary with fantasy to portray a surreal vision of Cuba.
Apparently they are concerned with pleasing the Congress which has so much control over what's left of government funding, after it was slashed to the bone by the Republicans.
www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID61/13044.html   (4108 words)

  
 Inside 9/11 :: Al Qaeda, World Trade Center, September 11 :: National Geographic Channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Inside 9/11 :: Al Qaeda, World Trade Center, September 11 :: National Geographic Channel
Go beyond what has been reported and get a clearer picture of the day that redefined our nation.
To order a copy of the Inside 9/11 DVD, please visit our online store or call 866 280 3460 (U.S. and Canada).
channel.nationalgeographic.com /channel/inside911   (63 words)

  
 Film and Television Production - International Producer's Guide to Canada
This Web site is designed to assist producers living outside of Canada, who are considering production IN Canada or co-production WITH Canada.
Stunts Canada - country's largest association of professional stunt coordinators and performers
Rogers on the Web - Ted Rogers is to Canada what Ted Turner is to the U.S. Shaw Communications - Canada's 2nd largest cableco.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/6908   (1103 words)

  
 Jamy Ian Swiss / Credits
Wall Street Journal Report, WNBC-TV, NY The Art of Magic, PBS Documentary
Penn and Teller's Sin City Spectacular, FX Channel
Grand Illusions: the Story of Magic, 25-part documentary, Discovery Channel (Canada)
www.jamyianswiss.com /credits.html   (587 words)

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