Télévision de Radio-Canada
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| Type | Broadcast television network |
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| Country | Canada |
| Availability | National (available in parts of northern U.S. via cable or antenna) |
| Owner | Société Radio-Canada |
| Launch date | September 6, 1952 |
| Website radio-canada.ca/television/ |
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Télévision de Radio-Canada[1] is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Headquarters are at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, which is also home to the network's flagship station, CBFT.
It is the only francophone network in Canada to broadcast over-the-air in all Canadian provinces, although its programming is generally directed at residents of Quebec as opposed to francophones outside Quebec. Indeed, until the 1970s, its only stations outside Quebec were in Ottawa and Winnipeg.
Generally considered more populist than its English counterpart CBC Television, this network has certainly been the more successful of the two, as it does not face such immense competition from American networks. For most of the last 30 years it has trailed TVA in the ratings, but has recently pulled closer with a resurgent schedule including offbeat sitcom Les Bougon and talk show Tout le monde en parle.
With this success, however, have come accusations of dumbing down. Tout le monde en parle replaced the long-running Sunday night arts series Les Beaux Dimanches. The following season, Radio-Canada moved its supper-hour newscasts (in Quebec and Ontario only) to 5:00 p.m. to make room for a new talk show fronted by Véronique Cloutier (former host of La Fureur) at 6:00 p.m. While Radio-Canada's newscasts had already fallen well behind those of TVA and often even TQS, the resulting uproar led to a reversal that December, with a full-hour newscast returned to the 6:00 - 7:00 timeslot in all markets.
News programming is anchored by Le Téléjournal, which airs nightly at 10:00 p.m.; on weeknights it includes a current affairs segment, Le Point. Local newscasts, which air during the lunch and supper hours, now also carry the Téléjournal name, i.e. Le Téléjournal Montréal. Originally, the regional newscasts had the name Ce Soir (This Evening).
CBC/Radio-Canada also operates le Réseau de l'information (RDI), Canada's first French-language news channel.
In television listings such as TV Guide, where space limitations usually require television networks to be referred to by a three-letter abbreviation, the network is normally coded as SRC (for Société Radio-Canada, the French language corporate name of the CBC as a whole.) This has no official standing as a name for the network — although the network did once experiment with using SRC as its on-air brand in the 1990s, it reverted to Radio-Canada within a few months.
On 10 September 2007, Radio-Canada (as well as sister cable news network RDI) became the first over-the-air network in North America to broadcast solely in 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, including on its standard definition signals.
See also List of programs broadcast by Télévision de Radio-Canada.
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[edit] Radio-Canada HD
In 2006, Télévision de Radio-Canada launched an HD simulcast of its Montreal station CBFT which is available nationally via satellite and digital cable operators.
As of 2007, Radio-Canada is available in HD over-the-air in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.
[edit] Stations and affiliates
- See also: List of Radio-Canada television stations
Of Canada's three major French language television networks, Radio-Canada is the only one that broadcasts terrestrially in all Canadian provinces. With the exception of Atlantic Canada, where a single station serves all four provinces through an extensive network of rebroadcasters, the network has at least one originating station in every province. These stations serve every major market in French and English Canada, with privately owned affiliates serving smaller markets in Quebec. Unlike CBC Television affiliates, which often have several alternative programming sources, Radio-Canada affiliates are effectively constrained to carry network programming throughout the day, excluding local and regional programming and commercials.
The network currently has an application before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to acquire three of its five remaining private affiliate stations in Quebec from their current owner, Cogeco.[2]
[edit] Slogans
- Prior to fall 2004: « Ici Radio-Canada » (tr. "This is Radio-Canada"). This is what the announcer said during the system cue, when the network logo is displayed on-screen. But in the early-2000s, it became a promotional slogan in its own right.
- 2005: « Vous allez voir » (tr. "You are going to see", "We will show you" (in a positive way) or "You will see").
- Current (Fall 2006): « Ici comme dans la vie » (tr. "Here as in life") and « Radio-Canada, source d'information » (tr. "Radio-Canada, source of information").
[edit] Ombudsmen
The current ombudsman of Radio-Canada is Julie Miville-Dechêne, since April 1, 2007. She was preceded by Renaud Gilbert (2000-2007), Marcel Pépin (1997-1999), Mario Cardinal (1993-1997) and Bruno Gauron (1992).
[edit] Notes
- ^ Official name as stated in the CBC's annual reports and most press releases. Usually only Radio-Canada is used on-air (in both voiceovers and the logo), while Radio-Canada - Télévision is used for the network's logo in print.
- ^ CRTC Notice of Public Hearing 2008-5.
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