While YTV erected a 200ft tall collapsible emergency mast to get programmes up and running again within four days.

"You may wish to salute, as I do, the lonely lady of Low Birk Hatt, remote and independent but quietly content." And then she returned to private obscurity until Barry Cockcroft beat a path to her door, looking for subjects for a YTV series, The Hard Life - perhaps an antidote to starry-eyed suburban soap The Good Life.

Aware that the farmer would be out of his depth negotiating a contract with YTV, Peter brought in the NFU.

The television special has been seen on HBO, CBC, the Family Channel and YTV, and the home video has sold more than 250,000 copies in North America.

Entertaining as they were, given the wide exposure Teacher's Pet and SquareBob SpongePants can get on YTV or Teletoon, such episodes seemed an unnecessary commercial intrusion into the festival's more independent spirit; although, Genndy Tartakovky's Samurai Jack (Best Television Series) works very well on the big screen.

In partnership with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and YTV, the company produced two television series: Today's Parent TV (YTV) and Spilled Milk (CBC).

Eventually their independent release not only helped Tegan and Sara win the YTV Award but also enabled them to land their first record deal--and the same manager as Neil Young.

In hopes of a wider distribution, the video has been submitted to MuchMusic, YTV and the new Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

The young women featured on these pages have all been nominated for 1999 YTV Achievement Awards.

Mrs Andrews, who didn't attend the inquest, told YTV earlier: "I feel like I have been robbed of my future.

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