Louis Lalande is the current executive vice president of French language services at
Société Radio-Canada
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. ...
. Lalande was appointed on January 16, 2012, after serving as interim, since September 16, 2011.
Lalande has been with SRC for thirty years in news and current affairs, and ten years as an executive producer of special coverage and major events including as elections. Lalande later went on to become executive director of technical production, then executive director of news and current affairs for
Télévision de Radio-Canada. Lalande was also involved in establishing the Centre de l'information in Montreal, where he was the News and Current Affairs Director for Télévision de Radio-Canada and
Réseau de l'information
Ici RDI (stylized ICI RDI) is a Canadian French-language specialty news channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada). The channel began broadcasting on January 1, 1995 as Réseau de l'inform ...
for more than two years, after having been Executive Director of Technical Production. Lalande also established
Le Canal Nouvelles
Le Canal Nouvelles (LCN) is a Television in Canada, Canadian French language discretionary service 24-hour headline news channel owned by Groupe TVA, a division of Québecor. Its broadcasting headquarters are located in Montreal, Quebec. The chann ...
and was executive producer of ''
Le Point
''Le Point'' () is a French weekly political and news magazine published in Paris.
History and profile
''Le Point'' was founded in September 1972 by a group of journalists who had, one year earlier, left the editorial team of '' L'Express'', w ...
''.
Lalande succeeded
Sylvain Lafrance.
References
Canadian television executives
Living people
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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