Northern Peaks could take Vancouver porn to new heights

Canada’s first all-adult video channel—coming to a television near you—could mean big things for Vancouver’s porn industry.

Last month, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission granted Edmonton-based Real Productions approval to operate a digital cable channel that will offer quality Canadian-made pornography.

Shaun Donnelly, president of Real Productions and founder of Northern Peaks, said that Vancouver is a “very robust market for adult content”. He noted that his company recently produced a sex-industry reality series, Make Me a Porn Star, in B.C., which included footage shot in the city.

“There are a number of adult company centres there, and we’ve been contacted by quite a few of them offering their services to produce content and supply existing content that’s been filmed there,” Donnelly said of Vancouver.

In negotiations with the CRTC earlier this year, Donnelly promised that 50 percent of Northern Peaks’ content will be Canadian, going above and beyond the 15 percent requirement.

He claimed that since that announcement on August 15, support for the channel has been pouring in. “We’ve received over 1,200 e-mails, and all of them have been positive,” Donnelly said.

However, it will take more than public backing to get Northern Peaks ready for action. In order to secure a broadcast licence, Real Productions must first reach an agreement with at least one licensed distributor, a feat that Donnelly said he expects to achieve by mid to late 2009.

“It’s basically a case of hammering out all the details with the cable carriers,” Donnelly said.

Get your fluffers ready, Vancouver. Canadian porn is coming your way.

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clintonj6

Sep 19, 2008 at 2:42am

On any given day in yaletown you can peer across the skyline and see porn shoots going on in various condominiums. Who needs a channel!