{
  "id": 9371584,
  "title": "Shaftesbury Provides Ailing Canadian Kids’ TV Biz With $850,000 Gift Package & Issues “Urgent Call To Action”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/shaftesbury-provides-ailing-canadian-kids-tv-biz-with-850-000-gift",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-23T16:24:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/09/shaftesbury-canada-kids-tv-urgent-call-action-gift-package-1237111272/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "EXCLUSIVE: Veteran producer Christina Jennings has begun a mission to save the Canadian kids’ TV business. Today at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), the Shaftesbury founder issued an “urgent call to action,” as she announced a significant package “designed to support Canadian kids’ content.” She is putting her money where her mouth by committing […]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}