Television of Radio-Canada

History of the chain

French-speaking Canadian television is inaugurated on September 6th 1952 with the opening of station CBFT Montreal diffusing the French/English bilingual programs. Another station, CBLT, open with Toronto two days afterwards. The first station of private television affiliated to the SRC is CKSO, located at Sudbury, in the Ontario, launched in October 1953.

In 1954, station CBFT Montreal becomes exclusively French-speaking with the opening of anglophone station CBMT.

The television of Radio-Canada is accessible to 66% from the Canadians in 1955, when it diffuses for the first time the meeting of opening of the Canadian Parliament. In 1957, the federal elections are the subject of five hours a television report followed a few weeks afterwards by the diffusion of the first opening of the Parliament by a reigning monarch (Elisabeth II, queen of Canada).

June 1st 1958, the signal televised Radio-Canada is available of one ocean to the other and in 1959, the terrestrial network extends until Newfoundland.

Television passes to the color on July 1st 1966 and the service entirely color starts in 1974. Radio-Canada is diffusion host of Expo 67 with Montreal.

A new law on broadcasting confirms in 1968 the mandate of Radio-Canada like national diffuser and creates the Conseil of broadcasting and Canadian telecommunications (CRTC) in charge with the regulation and the attribution of the licenses to emit. The CRTC requires in 1970 60% of Canadian content on television public and private. A advanced diffusion of the programs is installation in the seaboard provinces because of the jet lag.

In 1973, Radio-Canada inaugurates its House with Montreal and adopts the following year a new emblem representing “C” of the word Canada. In 1978, it becomes the first diffuser in the world to use a satellite to diffuse its televised programs, covering Canada of the east in the west.

The Radio-Canada Company adheres in 1985 with other Canadian diffusers to the world service of French-speaking television TV5.

January 1st 1995, Radio-Canada inaugurates its French-speaking chain of information uninterrupted, the Network of information (RDI). The Information center to Montreal, an ultramodern complex intended for the collection of news and the production of data transmission for the Television of Radio-Canada and RDI are inaugurated in 2001.

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