TéLéVISION DE RADIO-CANADA

'Télévision de Radio-Canada'^[1] is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by Société Radio-Canada.
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.
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. During the 2004-05 television season it ranked close behind Quebec's top television network, TVA, 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, it reverted to 'Radio-Canada' within a few months.
See also List of programs broadcast by SRC.

Contents

Radio-Canada HD

Stations and affiliates

Slogans

Ombudsmen

Notes

External links

Radio-Canada HD

In 2006, Télévision de Radio-Canada launched an HD simulcast of its Montreal station CBFT which is available national via satellite and digital cable cable operators.

Stations and affiliates

During the 1970s, as a result of the federal government's commitment to bilingualism and the Official Languages Act, SRC expanded into markets throughout English Canada building stations, or at least rebroadcast transmitters, in every province to distribute its signal. 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.

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").

Ombudsmen

The current ombudsman of Radio-Canada is Julie Miville-Dechêne, since April 1, 2007. She was preceeded by Renaud Gilbert (2000-2007), Marcel Pépin (1997-1999), Mario Cardinal (1993-1997) and Bruno Gauron (1992).

Notes

1. 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.

External links

★ Official Site

★ CBC/Radio-Canada Corporate Site