Télévision de Radio-Canada is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, known in french as Société Radio-Canada. 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.
On September 10, 2007, Radio-Canada (as well as sister cable news n...
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Télévision de Radio-Canada is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, known in french as Société Radio-Canada. 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.
On September 10, 2007, Radio-Canada (as well as sister cable news network RDI) became the first over-the-air network in North America to broadcast solely, with few exceptions, in 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, including on its standard definition signals.
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 sitcoms...
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