ARTV
Encyclopedia
ARTV is a Canadian
French language
Category A specialty channel
specializing in the art
s and culture
; including music, dance, theatre, visual arts as well as films and scripted television series.
, Bell Globemedia, ARTE France and L’Équipe Spectra. The channel launched on September 1, 2001 as ARTV.
In Fall 2007, L’Équipe Spectra sold their 7 per cent interest in the service to the CBC. CTVglobemedia also announced that it intended to sell its interest in the service to the CBC as well, the CRTC approved the transaction on June 20, 2008. In late 2010, Télé-Québec sold its interest to the CBC, bringing its total interest to 85%.
specialty services are not mandatory carriage on analogue cable systems and can be carried on digital cable
, in all French language markets, ARTV is mandatory carriage on analogue cable that receives the highest number of subscribers. In English language
markets, this condition does not apply. In regard to satellite
providers, ARTV must be offered in a package that contains the greatest number of French language services.
These conditions were applied by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to ensure the success of the service and that it has the ability to produce programs to fulfill its mandate as an arts and culture service.
simulcast of itself called ARTV HD.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
French language
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
Category A specialty channel
Specialty channel
A specialty channel can be a commercial broadcasting or non-commercial television channel which consists of television programming focused on a single genre, subject or targeted television market at a specific demographic....
specializing in the art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
s and culture
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
; including music, dance, theatre, visual arts as well as films and scripted television series.
History
ARTV was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) as la Télé des Arts as a joint venture between the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Télé-QuébecTélé-Québec
Télé-Québec is a French language public educational television network in the Canadian province of Quebec. Known legally as Société de télédiffusion du Québec , it is a provincial crown corporation owned by the Government of Quebec...
, Bell Globemedia, ARTE France and L’Équipe Spectra. The channel launched on September 1, 2001 as ARTV.
In Fall 2007, L’Équipe Spectra sold their 7 per cent interest in the service to the CBC. CTVglobemedia also announced that it intended to sell its interest in the service to the CBC as well, the CRTC approved the transaction on June 20, 2008. In late 2010, Télé-Québec sold its interest to the CBC, bringing its total interest to 85%.
Distribution
Although most licensed analogueAnalog television
Analog television is the analog transmission that involves the broadcasting of encoded analog audio and analog video signal: one in which the message conveyed by the broadcast signal is a function of deliberate variations in the amplitude and/or frequency of the signal...
specialty services are not mandatory carriage on analogue cable systems and can be carried on digital cable
Digital cable
Digital cable is a generic term for any type of cable television distribution using digital video compression or distribution. The technology was originally developed by Motorola.-Background:...
, in all French language markets, ARTV is mandatory carriage on analogue cable that receives the highest number of subscribers. In English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
markets, this condition does not apply. In regard to satellite
Direct broadcast satellite
Direct broadcast satellite is a term used to refer to satellite television broadcasts intended for home reception.A designation broader than DBS would be direct-to-home signals, or DTH. This has initially distinguished the transmissions directly intended for home viewers from cable television...
providers, ARTV must be offered in a package that contains the greatest number of French language services.
These conditions were applied by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to ensure the success of the service and that it has the ability to produce programs to fulfill its mandate as an arts and culture service.
Noted programs
- EllesThe L WordThe L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood...
(The L Word) - L'Actors StudioInside the Actors StudioInside the Actors Studio is a series on the Bravo cable television channel, hosted by James Lipton. It is produced and directed by Jeff Wurtz; the executive producer is James Lipton. The program, which premiered in 1994, is distributed internationally by CABLEready and is broadcast in 125 countries...
- ChicChicChic may refer to:* Chic , chic meaning stylish or smart** Related: List of chics* Chic , a thoroughbred racehorse* Chic , an American music group popular in the disco era** Chic , the 1977 debut album of the band Chic...
- Visite libre
- Anne… La maison aux pignons vertsAnne of Green GablesAnne of Green Gables is a bestselling novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published in 1908. Set in 1878, it was written as fiction for readers of all ages, but in recent decades has been considered a children's book...
- Callas et Onassis
- DesignDesignDesign as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
- La Vie, la vie
- Portraits
- Toute une soirée…
- Slings and ArrowsSlings and ArrowsSlings and Arrows is a Canadian TV series set at the fictional New Burbage Festival, a Shakespearean festival similar to the real-world Stratford Festival...
ARTV HD
On May 3, 2008, ARTV launched a high-definitionHigh-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
simulcast of itself called ARTV HD.
Logos
 |
 |
|
|---|---|---|
| 2001-2004 | 2004-2010 | 2010 |