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Open main menu Wikipedia Search EditWatch this pageRead in another language V (TV network) For the television channels in Asia and Australia, see Channel V. V is a Canadian privately owned French language television network. The network has owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout Quebec, although it can also be seen over-the-air in some bordering markets in the provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick. It can also be received in some other parts of Canada by satellite, cable and IPTV.
V V logo.png Type Broadcast television network Country Canada Availability Quebec (available in parts of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and eastern & northern Ontario via cable or antenna and nationally via satellite) Slogan Ça change de la télé Owner V Media Group (Remstar) Launch date September 7, 1986 Former names TQS (1986–2009) Official website Official website (in French) The network was launched in 1986 as Télévision Quatre-Saisons (TQS), and was known by that name until Remstar, which had bought the network in 2008, renamed it "V" on August 31, 2009.[1] It is the namesake and flagship property of V Media Group, a separate company majority-owned by Remstar owner Maxime Rémillard (partially through Remstar).
History Programming Coverage Edit Unlike TVA, V does not have mandatory cable carriage rights outside Quebec, but may be offered at a cable company's discretion if there is a sufficient local market for French-language television programming. Consequently, the network is not widely available outside Quebec, although some communities in Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia receive V affiliates on cable.
CFGS-DT in Gatineau is part of the Ottawa television market, and is carried in both analogue and digital on cable systems in nearly all of Eastern Ontario. Eastlink systems in Northeastern Ontario also carry CFGS in both analogue and digital. Rogers Cable systems in Central and Southwestern Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area, offer CFGS on their digital tier. CFTF-DT in Rivière-du-Loup has a rebroadcaster in Edmundston, New Brunswick—the network's only over-the-air transmitter outside Quebec—and is carried in both analogue and digital across most of northern New Brunswick.
To ensure that the network's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics reached francophone viewers outside Quebec, its coverage was simulcast on CPAC, which has mandatory carriage on the basic service of all Canadian cable and satellite providers, from February 12 to 28, 2010.[18]
V stations Edit Notes:
1) All V owned-and-operated stations signed on with the network in 1986; 2) Italicized channel numbers indicate a digital channel allocated for future use by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Owned-and-operated stations Edit City of licence Station Channel TV (RF) Montreal CFJP-DT 35.1 (35) Quebec City CFAP-DT 2.1 (39) Saguenay CFRS-DT 4.1 (38) Sherbrooke CFKS-DT 34.1 (16) Trois-Rivières CFKM-DT 34.1 (16) Affiliated stations Edit City of licence Station Virtual channel Digital RF channel Year of affiliation Owner Gatineau CFGS-DT 34.1 34 1986 RNC Media Rimouski CJPC-DT (satellite of CFTF-DT) 18 27 N/A Télé Inter-Rives Rivière-du-Loup CFTF-DT 29.1 29 1988 Val-d'Or CFVS-DT 15.1 25 1987 RNC Media V HD Identity and slogans Revenue See also References External links Last edited 24 days ago by IJBall RELATED ARTICLES CFAP-DT CFKS-DT CFRS-DT Wikipedia Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. Terms of UsePrivacyDesktop
