V-tele

[e-dawg]

Since Radio-Canada (SRC) and TVA are the only french broadcast channels avaliable outside of Quebec in the basic teir. Why V-tele formely known as (TQS) isn't on basic cable outside Quebec or New Brusnwick? Should V-tele be avaliable in the basic teir, not the francophone teir of the local cable system thruout Canada?

 

[azumanga]

Why V-tele formely known as (TQS) isn't on basic cable outside Quebec or New Brusnwick?

This is because V (as the network is merely called) is not licensed as a national network, unlike TVA, meaning that its carriage outside of Quebec, New Brunswick and the Ottawa Valley is optional.

 

[Gregg]

The carriage of CFTM 10 Montreal on basic cable across English-speaking Canada is a relatively recent move, maybe about 10 to 15 years ago. I think it came around the same time as APTN (Aboriginal People's Television Network) was also required to be carried on basic cable across the nation.

Before then, if your local cable system had a francophone digital tier, you could get CFTM as part of that package. Otherwise you were limited to your local SRC station and in Ontario, TFO, for francophone programming.

Is there a separate CFTM national feed? I don't believe you see local Montreal advertisers if you watch CFTM in Toronto or Vancouver.

I remember visiting Toronto shortly after the CBC/SRC went through some cutbacks and they discontinued local programming on 25 CBLFT. When watching the station on cable in my motel, I could see local Ottawa-area commercials for 9 CBOFT, which started supplying the SRC feed for 25. The next time I was in Toronto, the local Ottawa spots were gone, even though 25 continued to carry the Ottawa area local newscast from CBOFT. Since the Toronto-area francophone population is so small, 25 simply returned to airing SRC promos and PSAs during local station breaks.

Gregg
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[azumanga]

Is there a separate CFTM national feed? I don't believe you see local Montreal advertisers if you watch CFTM in Toronto or Vancouver.

As I heard, CFTM is the national feed, with its western feed a three-hour delay of CFTM.

 

[Gregg]

I guess if they send a three-hour delayed feed for the West Coast, CFTM must also be omitting the Provigo Supermarket and Pharmaprix Drug Store ads as well. After all, WTBS and WGN-TV stopped airing Atlanta and Chicago commercials on their national feeds a few years after they started getting those channels on many cable systems around the U.S.


Gregg
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[Bluenoser]

The carriage of CFTM 10 Montreal on basic cable across English-speaking Canada is a relatively recent move, maybe about 10 to 15 years ago. I think it came around the same time as APTN (Aboriginal People's Television Network) was also required to be carried on basic cable across the nation.

CFTM became mandatory on May 1,1999...I remember there being a special program welcoming viewers across the country. Here in Atlantic Canada, cable viewers in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and PEI get CFTM for TVA, with New Brunswick getting TVA from either CIMT Riviere-du-Loup (most of the province, microwaved from Edmundston) or sister station CHAU Carleton (which can be picked up OTA on the North Shore and Acadian Peninsula). For the most part, CHAU and CIMT are simulcasting the same program feed with separate ads and newscasts. On Bell TV, which I subscribe to, I can get CFTM (both east and west), CFCM Quebec City, CJPM Saguenay/Chicoutimi, and CHLT Sherbrooke as well as access to the 6pm news from CFER Rimouski; CFEM Rouyn-Noranda and CIMT are also carried, but are regionally restricted (as is CFER ouside the news relay). Shaw Direct viewers have a choice of TVA from CFTM (E/W), CFCM, CHOT Gatineau, CFER, CJPM, CHAU, CIMT and CHLT.