Le Canal Nouvelles
Encyclopedia
Le Canal Nouvelles is a Canadian
French language
Category C
24 hour headline news specialty channel
owned by Groupe TVA
, a division of Quebecor Media. Its broadcasting headquarters are located in Montreal
, Quebec
, Canada
and was launched on September 8, 1997.
Quebecor also owns the TVA
network. Many news reports shown on TVA are also shown on LCN. LCN is also simulcast for several hours overnight on TVA, with the TVA logo
superimposed over the LCN logo.
Current anchors of LCN include Jean-François Guérin, Karine Champagne, Pascale Déry, Julie Marcoux, Mélanie Bergeron, Mélissa François and Pierre Cantin.
The channel also broadcasts factual current affairs programs, such as Denis Lévesque, Le Vrai Négociateur (hosted by Claude Poirier), Mongrain (hosted by Jean-Luc Mongrain
) and Franchement Martineau.
channel called LCN HD was launched as a simulcast of LCN on December 7, 2009. It is currently available on Cogeco
& Vidéotron
.
Canada
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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 C
Category C services
A Category C service is a Canadian specialty television channel which, as defined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, are services that provide programming in genres that are exempted from the CRTC's format protection rules and are subject to standard conditions of...
24 hour headline news 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....
owned by Groupe TVA
Quebecor Media Inc.
Quebecor Media Inc. is a Canadian media company. Quebecor Inc. owns the controlling interest with 54.72% while CDP Capital d’Amérique Investissements Inc. owns the remaining 45.28%...
, a division of Quebecor Media. Its broadcasting headquarters are located in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, Canada
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...
and was launched on September 8, 1997.
Programming
LCN's format is to broadcast two 30-minute news segments per hour with headlines scrolling at the bottom of the screen.Quebecor also owns the TVA
TVA (TV network)
TVA is a privately owned French language television network in Canada. The network is currently owned by Groupe TVA Inc. , a publicly traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media...
network. Many news reports shown on TVA are also shown on LCN. LCN is also simulcast for several hours overnight on TVA, with the TVA logo
Logo
A logo is a graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition...
superimposed over the LCN logo.
Current anchors of LCN include Jean-François Guérin, Karine Champagne, Pascale Déry, Julie Marcoux, Mélanie Bergeron, Mélissa François and Pierre Cantin.
The channel also broadcasts factual current affairs programs, such as Denis Lévesque, Le Vrai Négociateur (hosted by Claude Poirier), Mongrain (hosted by Jean-Luc Mongrain
Jean-Luc Mongrain
Jean-Luc Mongrain is a Canadian journalist and news anchor. He is currently the news anchor of his own talk show called Mongrain on LCN .-Background:...
) and Franchement Martineau.
LCN HD
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...
channel called LCN HD was launched as a simulcast of LCN on December 7, 2009. It is currently available on Cogeco
Cogeco
Cogeco Inc. is a Canadian media and communications company. The name is an acronym for Compagnie Générale de Communication .-History:...
& Vidéotron
Vidéotron
Vidéotron GP is a Canadian integrated telecommunications company active in cable television, interactive multimedia development, video on demand, cable telephony, wireless communication and Internet access services. Currently, the company primarily serves Quebec, as well as the francophone...
.