ICI TOU.TV is a

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, video-on-demand

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launched on January 26, 2010 by the

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, currently branded CBC/Radio-Canada. ICI TOU.TV, a French-language streaming service, offers primarily French and Québécois (French Canadian) content, including movies, series, documentaries, entertainment, etc. They also offer some content from English-speaking countries like the US, UK, and the rest of Canada. English-language content is generally dubbed in French, without subtitles. ICI TOU.TV is geo-located and is only legally available in Canada. CBC/Radio-Canada also offers an English-language streaming service, CBC Gem, which includes a large library of English-language content, as well as some French- and other foreign-language content. The non-English content is generally offered with English subtitles though, not dubbing. CBC Gem and ICI TOU.TV are both free to watch in Canada, with ads. They also offer Premium, ad-free memberships for a reasonable monthly price ($4.99 and $6.99, respectively). Premium membership with one service does not give you Premium access to the other—though they are both CBC/Radio-Canada streaming services, they each require their own membership. Both services offer free trials of varying lengths, generally 30 days.

History

At launch, the site offered 2000 hours of

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television content, near

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in quality, provided by several TV channels, such as

Ici Radio-Canada Télé Ici Radio-Canada Télé (formerly known as Télévision de Radio-Canada) is a Canadian French-language free-to-air television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada), the national pub ...

, Ici RDI,

Ici ARTV Ici ARTV (stylized as ICI artv) is a Canadian French language specialty channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada). The channel broadcasts the arts and culture including music, dance, theatr ...

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, TV5Monde, TV5 Québec Canada,

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, Radio Canada International,

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(

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). In February 2014, the site was re-branded as Ici TOU.TV as part of a plan to unify CBC's French-language outlets around a single brand. In May 2018, it was announced that Bell Media, the

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, TV5 Québec Canada, and

V Media Group Remstar Media Group is a privately held Canadian media firm, owned by the film production and distribution company Remcorp. It owns the French-language specialty channels Elle Fictions and Max. History In June 2008, Remstar acquired the Frenc ...

would contribute content to TOU.TV's premium ''Extra'' tier, as part of an effort to better compete with

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on the availability of Québécois and French-language content. Other distributors such as Télé-Quebec later joined the partnership. Bell Media left the partnership after the company's rival service,

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, expanded into the French-language market. As a result, all of their conen previously found on Ici TOU.TV have since moved to the aforementioned service. The V section has also been removed later on after Bell Media brought the brand from V Media Group (now Remstar Media Group); it was the only brand the latter company licensed to Ici TOU.TV.

Available contents and sections

Contents found on the service mostly include original series from Radio-Canada's television networks and streaming services, as well as acquisitions from other distributors. While some can be watched for free with advertisement, those with the Extra label require a paid subscription to the service so that it can be accessed. Following the website rebrand in May 2018, contents are placed into sections such as the following:

Current

*Création Ici Tou.tv *Extra *Véro.tv *Zone Jeunesse *Zone des petits *Ici Radio-Canada Télé *

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*Ici ARTV *Ici RDI *Télé-Québec * TV5/ UnisTV/TV5MondePlus *

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*rtbf.be *ONF/NFB * CBC Gem

Devices Supported

The ICI TOU.TV streaming platform supports access through most modern web browsers, as well as apps for

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/ iPadOS,

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and Android TV devices,

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, Amazon Fire TV,

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and Telus Optik TV set top boxes. It was previously available as an app on LG and

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Smart TVs,

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and

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set top boxes.

Geo-Location and Availability

ICI TOU.TV is geo-located and is only available in Canada.

References

External links

* {{Video on Demand Services in Canada Internet properties established in 2010 Ici Radio-Canada Télé Streaming television Canadian video on demand services Quebec websites