Global will cover The 2005 Masters golf tournament live from Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. Coverage begins with the third-round coverage on Saturday, April 9 at 3:30 p.m. and continues with final-round coverage on Sunday, April 10 at 2:30 p.m. Canadian contenders include Stephen Ames and Mike Weir, winner of the 2003 Masters.
Golf is known for its upscale audience, skewing male and The Masters should prove no exception.

For people looking for some business advice that isn’t immediately followed by ‘you’re fired,’ The Life Network may have the answer.
In Good Company premiers Tuesday, May 24 at 1:30 a.m. and strives to offer advice to four different small businesses after a successful entrepreneur evaluates them. The four-part series is geared towards the 25-54 demographic and will air weekly for a half-hour on Tuesdays. The companies will receive invaluable advice on how to bring their business to the top.
Each week a different business will be featured, including a publisher, a restaurant, an estate agency and an events management company.

The Life Network is going to take people on a ride that they won’t soon forget on Making It Big, where they give three up-and-comers a chance to…make it big.
Airing Sundays at 10 p.m. beginning April 17, Making It Big will bring three people together to compete against each other for the opportunity of a lifetime, a chance to meet the biggest of the big wheels in their industry. The program will focus on a different profession in each of its six hour-long episodes.

Anime continues to attract youth viewers, and YTV, Canada’s number one youth network, knows it. This April, YTV is rolling out two new programs, .hack//Sign and Battle B’Daman.
.hack//Sign will premier on Friday, April 1 at 10:30 p.m. and continue as part of Bionix, YTV’s Friday night of action and anime. And Battle B’Daman will become a staple in YTV’s Saturday mornings starting April 23 at 7:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
This new wave of anime is followed closely by the Canadian television premiere of Inuyasha: Affections Touching Across Time, a movie based on the popular anime programs.

With home renovation coming to the forefront of reality programming, Food Network Canada has your kitchen covered.
A 36-episode series, Kitchen Equipped premiers Monday, April 4 at 2 p.m. and will continue to unspool afternoons from Monday through Saturday. The program will showcase in-studio kitchen renovations and feature hot new accessories – everything to do with your kitchen.
Hosted by Stacy McLennan and industrial designer Jay Purvis, the show will target 25-54s.

Please click on the attached link to view GRP Trending by week and month for the Total Restaurant category in the Toronto market covering the broadcast months of March 2004 to February 2005 inclusive.

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April 7 is the transformation date for gay diginet PrideVision. At that time, PrideVision will expand its hard core gay adult content to 24/7 and relaunch its lifestyle schedule on spinoff net OUTtv. The category 1 lifestyle channel will be included at no extra cost with other digital channels in bundles, theme packages or à la carte. Because of the package distribution, OUTtv is expected to increase reach from 20,000 subscribers to about 700,000 over the next few months. The audience is expected to be not only the GLBT community but also a young, hip and straight mostly female demographic, said Bill Craig, the new president of both OUTtv and PrideVision, in a release.
Pridevision/OUTtv was purchased last year from Headline Media Group by a private consortium of Canadian gay businesses, including Pink Triangle Press, which publishes the GLBT community newspaper Xtra in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver (total circ.: 175,000.)
‘There are terrific synergies that the combination of OUTtv and Pink Triangle Press (PTP) can potentially bring to clients that want access to the highly-coveted gay and lesbian market,’ notes Andrew Chang, PTP’s chief operating officer. ‘It will now be easier for marketers to assemble multimedia ad buys that could include our Xtra gay community newspapers across the country, the OUTtv network and the Xtra and OUTtv Web sites.’