The Thursday October 7 Survivor:Vanuatu episode drew close to two million viewers nationally in the 18 to 49 year old bracket, with a total 2+ audience of 3.036 million. According to BBM people meter data, the fourth episode earned a 11.1 rating (among (18-49 yr olds) in the Toronto market and in Vancouver it garnered a 17.9 rating.

Space has launched their Fall out-of-home multi-media campaign, which includes Flashmedia, transit shelters and billboards. This marks the first time CityTV has used Flashmedia – a network of 15,000 street level posters on convenience stores across the country – to hit their young, urban demographic.

This November sees Teletoon launch a bevy of new series and presentations – like 6Teen. It premieres on Sunday November 7 at 6 p.m. (which is its regular timeslot). The series is set entirely in a gigantic shopping mall, and follows six 16-year-old friends as they experience their ‘firsts.’ Another launch, The Batman, which follows the crime fighting caped crusader, premieres Saturday November 6 at 11 a.m. (with a regular timeslot of Sat/Sun at 11 a.m).
Teletoon special presentation Th-Th-That’s not all folks: Six Hour Looney Tunes Marathon airs Saturday November 13 (1-7 p.m.), while My Little Pony – Dancing in the Clouds airs Mondays and Fridays at 3 p.m. from November 15 to December 12.
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CBC has a new MOW in production with Vancouver’s Force Four Productions. A Love Story, a $3.7-million production (which is also known as Murder Unveiled and will likely go through another name change) is a tragic Punjabi love story inspired by actual headlines. In the story, a Canadian Punjabi woman travels to India and falls in love with a man outside her caste, defying her orthodox family who takes out a contract to kill her. The CBC MOW will air in 2005.
Courtesy of our sister publication Playback (October 11)

CTV has a new MOW in production called A Friend of the Family. Alberta Filmworks is coproducing the $4-million TV movie with Toronto’s Slanted Wheel Entertainment, for delivery February 11. Laura Harris (24, Dead Like Me), Eric Johnson (Smallville) and Kim Coates (Pearl Harbor) star in the story about notorious rapist and murderer David Snow.
Courtesy of our sister publication Playback (October 11)

The NHL Network has teamed up with CSTV: College Sports Television, a 24-hour college sports network, to televise 25 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division 1 hockey games.
NHL Network has confirmed the first 14 games of its NCAA hockey sked with an additional 11 games being televised in the new year. All games will be produced by U.S.-based CSTV as part of its Friday Night Hockey game-of-the-week with the first game televised on Friday, Oct. 8.

In CBC’s new interview program CBC News: Face to Face, Washington correspondent Neil MacDonald will talk to American politicos whose words and actions are defining the issues shaping their upcoming presidential election.
CBC News: Face to Face debuted Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. and features in-depth, hard-hitting interviews, every Wednesday night.

No tricks from Global on October 30, but rather a marathon treat of 12 The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror episodes. Classics include Hell Toupee; The Terror of Tiny Toon; I Know What You Diddily-Iddly-Did; Life’s a Glitch Then You Die; and G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad.
The Halloween Howl runs from 7:00 p.m. in the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia and begins at 9:00 p.m. in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Vision TV’s current affairs series 360 Vision opens its third season with an exploration of what’s behind Evangelical Christian support for Israel. The special report was filmed in Canada and Israel. The season opener of 360 Vision airs Wednesday, October 20 at 9:00 p.m and 1:00 a.m. ET.

MuchMusic kicks off the new season of Live@Much with Sum 41 on Saturday, October 16, 8:00 p.m. ET. Host Jennifer Hollett will conduct a live interview with the power-pop group in the MuchMuch headquarters in Toronto and Sum 41 will perform tracks from its new CD. This is the group’s third appearance on the program.

Microsoft ventures into the consumer electronics market as the first company to converge the Internet with TV. The MSN TV 2 Internet & Media Player unit delivers interactive services to the TV. The long-version description is that it is a broadband-home-network-enabled living-room device that provides entertainment, information and communications options for TV.

Interactive Program Guides (IPGs) are emerging as the entertainment portal for TV viewers, according to the latest report from In-Stat/MDR, a high-tech market research firm based in Scottsdale, Arizona.