Ici Radio-Canada Télé
Canadian French-language public TV network / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ici Radio-Canada Télé (stylized as ICI Radio-Canada Télé, and sometimes abbreviated as Ici Télé) is a Canadian French-language free-to-air television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada [SRC]), the national public broadcaster. Its English-language counterpart is CBC Television.
Type | Public broadcasting free-to-air television network |
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Country | Canada |
Broadcast area | Canada (available in northern United States by cable or antenna and Worldwide) |
Affiliates | List of member stations |
Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec Quebec City, Quebec |
Programming | |
Language(s) | French |
Picture format | 720p HDTV (downscaled to 480i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
History | |
Launched | 6 September 1952; 71 years ago (1952-09-06) |
Links | |
Website | ici |
Availability | |
Streaming media | |
RiverTV | Over-the-top TV |
Its headquarters are at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, which is also home to the network's flagship station, CBFT-DT, as well as the master control facilities of all of its owned-and-operated stations nationwide. Until the 2012 closedown of the CBC / Radio-Canada rebroadcaster network, it was the only francophone network in Canada to broadcast terrestrially in all Canadian provinces.