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Le Canal Nouvelles
Le Canal Nouvelles (LCN) is a 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 channel, operated and programmed by the TVA Nouvelles division, was launched on September 8, 1997. Programming LCN broadcasts two 30-minute news segments per hour with headlines scrolling at the bottom of the screen. Québecor also owns the TVA network. Many news reports shown on TVA are also shown on LCN. LCN also runs four TVA-produced newscasts: at 5pm weekdays, and noon/6pm/10pm daily, with the TVA logo superimposed over the LCN logo. LCN's anchors have included Pierre Bruneau, Réjean Léveillé, Jean-François Guérin, Karine Champagne, Pascale Déry, Julie Marcoux, Mélanie Bergeron and Pierre Cantin. The channel broadcasts factual current affairs programs, such as ''Denis Lévesque'' (hosted by Denis Lévesque, ''Le Vrai Négociateur'' (hosted by Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
480i
480i is the video mode used for standard-definition digital video in the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Myanmar, Western Sahara, and most of the Americas (with the exception of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay). The other common standard definition digital standard, used in the rest of the world, is 576i. It originated from the need for a standard to digitize analog 525 line TV (defined in BT.601) and is now used for digital TV broadcasts and home appliances such as game consoles and DVD disc players. The ''480'' identifies a vertical resolution of 480 lines, and the ''i'' identifies it as an interlaced resolution. The field rate, which is 60 Hz (or 59.94 Hz when used with NTSC color), is sometimes included when identifying the video mode, i.e. 480i60; another notation, endorsed by both the International Telecommunication Union in BT.601 and SMPTE in SMPTE 259M, includes the frame rate, as in 480i/30. Although related, it should n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Martineau
Richard Martineau (born July 23, 1961) is a right-leaning French-Canadian commentator. He is a columnist for ''Le Journal de Montréal'' newspaper. His columns also appear in the ''Infopresse'' and ''Elle Québec'' magazines. He also hosts ''Franchement Martineau'', a public affairs programme which airs on Le Canal Nouvelles. Since 1998, he has co-hosted Télé-Québec's '' Les Francs-tireurs'', first with Benoit Dutrizac and Laurent Saulnier and since 2006 with La Presse journalist Patrick Lagacé. Career Martineau became known for his column "Ondes de choc" (), which appeared in the Montreal weekly newspaper ''Voir'' until 2006. Martineau has also participated in evening debates on Télévision Quatre-Saisons and was the moderator of those debates between May and September 2006. He hosted a radio programme until 2007. Radio Canada has described his work as "established him as a leftist chronicler, then he forged deep to the right and to a posture more and more pamphleteeri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language In Canada
Canadian French, French is the mother tongue of approximately 10 million Canadians (22 percent of the Canadian population, second to English at 56 percent) according to the 2021 Canadian Census. Most Canadian native speakers of French live in Quebec, the only province where French is the majority and the sole official language. Of Quebec's people, 85 percent are native French language, francophones and 95 percent speak French as their first or second language. About one million native francophones live in other provinces, forming a sizeable minority in New Brunswick, which is officially bilingual; about a third of New Brunswick's people are francophones. There are also large French-speaking communities in Manitoba and Ontario, and smaller communities (about 1 to 2 percent of the population) in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Saskatchewan. Many of these communities are supported by French-language institutions. In 2016, 29.8 percent of Canadians reported bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ici RDI
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'information (, ''Information Network''). It is the French-language equivalent of CBC News Network. Overview ICI RDI is distributed on basic cable and satellite television to 9.8 million homes, including two million in Quebec, and is seen by half a million English viewers each week. The channel has mandatory carriage status for viewers outside Quebec. ICI RDI relies on the news-gathering resources of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: * 400 journalists * Ten newsrooms based in '' Maison Radio-Canada'' in Montreal * 30 bureaus across Canada, and seven foreign bureaus ICI RDI provides news, business, weather, and sports information on Air Canada's inflight entertainment and is seen in five major Canadian airports as ''RDI express''. Ici RDI was also responsible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Of Quebec
The culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting predominantly from the shared history of the French-speaking North American majority in Quebec. Québécois culture, as a whole, constitutes all distinctive traits – spiritual, material, intellectual and affective – that characterize Québécois society. This term encompasses the arts, literature, institutions and traditions created by Québécois, as well as the collective beliefs, values and lifestyle of Québécois. It is a culture of the Western World. Quebec is the only region in North America with a French-speaking majority, as well as one of only two provinces in Canada where French is a constitutionally recognized official language. As of 2006, 79% of all Quebecers list French as their mother tongue; since French is the official language in the province, up to 95% of all residents speak French. The 2001 census showed the population to be 90.3 percent Christian (in contrast to 77 percent for the wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In Quebec
Television in Quebec is a part of the culture of Quebec, with over 99% of households owning a television in Quebec. Long a preferred medium of many of Quebec's actors, artists, and writers, television has been one of the important forces in Quebec society, including its substantial influence in a series of dramatic changes in the 1960s: the Quiet Revolution. Types of television Although broadcast in French, ''la télévision québécoise'' has little relationship to television in France. It is similar to television in the United States: A 30-minute programming grid, commercials, local stations, and a division between broadcast television formed around networks of stations—which is freely available to anyone with a TV within their broadcast area—and cable television channels that require a subscription. Broadcast television The four major broadcast television networks in Quebec are Ici Radio-Canada Télé, TVA, Noovo and Télé-Québec. Some local advertising is aired and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaw Direct
Shaw Direct G.P. is a direct broadcast satellite television distributor in Canada and a subsidiary of the telecommunications company Rogers Communications. As of 2010, Shaw Direct had over 900,000 subscribers. It broadcasts on Ku band from two communications satellites: Anik G1 at 107.3°W, and Anik F2 at 111.1°W. Anik F1R, which had been in service for 15 years, reached its end of life in the latter part of 2020, when the services on this satellite were migrated between the remaining two. These satellites are owned by Telesat Canada and otherwise are used primarily to distribute programming to various Canadian cable TV companies. The company was formerly known as Star Choice until April 15, 2009. A full list of channels carried by these two satellites is available from satellite-related sites such as Lyngsat. The newer of the two satellites, Anik G1, was launched on April 15, 2013, and then later reached orbit on May 29, 2013. Shaw Direct was founded in Lincoln, New Brun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fibe (Bell Aliant)
Fibe (formerly FibreOP) is the brand name used by Bell Aliant for its suite of fiber to the home (FTTH) unified communication services, including Internet access, IPTV, and home telephone service, available in much of Atlantic Canada and previously in some regions of Ontario and Quebec. The Fibe service covers an entire urban area with a fibre optic network. Fibe Internet Fibe Internet service offers the following stand-alone unlimited speed options: 100 Mbit/s download and 100 Mbit/s upload (now available in a bundle with voice, voice and TV or TV only), 150 Mbit/s download and 150 Mbit/s upload, 300 Mbit/s download and 300 Mbit/s upload, and up to 1 Gbit/s download and 940 Mbit/s upload. In a bundle Bell Aliant offers the following unlimited speed options: 150 Mbit/s download and 150 Mbit/s upload, 500 Mbit/s download and 500 Mbit/s upload, 1 Gbit/s download and 940 Mbit/s upload, upgradable to 1.5 Gbit/s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell Satellite TV
Bell Satellite TV (; formerly known as Bell ExpressVu, Dish Network Canada and ExpressVu Dish Network and not to be confused with Bell's IPTV Bell Fibe TV, Fibe TV service) is the division of BCE Inc. that provides satellite television service across Canada. It launched on September 10, 1997. As of April 2017, Bell Satellite TV provides over 700 channels (including over 430 Standard-definition television, SDTV, 200 High-definition television, HDTV and 80 audio channels) to over 1 million subscribers. Its major competitors include satellite service Shaw Direct, as well as various cable and communications companies across Canada. Bell Satellite TV for Condos () launched as Bell ExpressVu for Condos in 2004. It was a VDSL service for select multidwelling units (condominiums and apartments) in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. It later evolved into an Internet Protocol television, IPTV service. Since 2010, this service operates as Bell Fibe TV and is delivered over Fiber to the x#FTTN an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidéotron
Vidéotron is a Canadian integrated telecommunications company founded in 1964. It's active in cable television, interactive multimedia development, video on demand, cable telephony, wireless communication and Internet access services. Owned by Quebecor, it primarily serves Quebec and Ottawa, as well as the Francophone communities of New Brunswick and some parts of Eastern Ontario. Its principal competitors are Bell Canada and Telus Communications. Vidéotron is the fifth-largest wireless carrier in Canada, with nearly 1,700,000 mobile subscribers as of Q2 2022. History Vidéotron was established in 1964, under the name "Télécâble Vidéotron Ltée" as northern Montreal's first cable television network. It started with 66 subscribers. André Chagnon served as the company's founding president. On January 24, 1990, Vidéotron launched terminals in Quebec, the first interactive television (ITV) system in North America. From 1995, the company entered the Internet era and acq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cogeco
Cogeco Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications and media company. Its corporate offices are located at 1 Place Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec. The company is structured into three strategic business units (SBU); Cogeco Connexion, Breezeline (previously known as Atlantic Broadband), and Cogeco Media. The company provides a range of telecommunication products and services including cable television, radio and television broadcasting, telephony, and Internet services in Ontario and Quebec in Canada, and in thirteen states along the east coast of the United States. Cogeco Inc. is a publicly traded company () and is controlled through multiple voting shares (accounting for 71.29% of votes) by the Audet family's holding company Gestion Audem Inc. In turn, Cogeco Inc. fully owns Cogeco Media, and owns 82.96% of the voting rights in Cogeco Communications Inc., a separate publicly traded company () which owns the Canadian and U.S. cable and telecom operations. The name Cogeco is an acro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
