Réseau de l'information
Encyclopedia
Réseau de l'information (RDI) is a Canadian
French language
Category C
news
channel
operated by CBC/Radio-Canada
. RDI began broadcasting on January 1, 1995, and is considered the French-language equivalent of the CBC News Network, also owned by the CBC.
(CBC) group:
's inflight entertainment.
in Montreal
and Quebec City
. Le Téléjournal Midi
is broadcast each weekday at 12pm and the main evening news bulletin Le Téléjournal/Le Point every evening live at 9:00 p.m. (eastern). These bulletins are also seen on the main French-language television network, Télévision de Radio-Canada
. The channel covers big events live and also broadcasts regional news in the form of Le Téléjournal
Montréal and Le Téléjournal Atlantique.
The channel also broadcasts factual programs in the form of food program L'épicerie, current affairs in Les Grand Reportages (The Big Reports), science in Decouverte (Discovery) and Tout le Monde en Parlait - a look back at past culture seen through the eyes of current events. During the weekend there is a greater amount of these programs, much in the same format as its English-language counterpart, the CBC News Network.
RDI also carries Le Journal Télévisé de 20 heures from France 2
, rebroadcasting it the following weekday at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern).
Former Governor General
Michaëlle Jean
hosted programs for both the English and French language CBC networks. She presented Grands Reportages on RDI and The Passionate Eye
on CBC Newsworld
as well as having her own talk show, called Michaëlle. She also served as a substitute anchor on Le Téléjournal.
Weekends:
Radio-Canada Productions:
. all programming aired on RDI began being produced in widescreen (and letterboxed on all standard definition feeds) on September 10, 2007. On May 2, 2008, RDI launched a high-definition
simulcast, RDI 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 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...
news
News
News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.- Etymology :...
channel
Television channel
A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and...
operated by CBC/Radio-Canada
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
. RDI began broadcasting on January 1, 1995, and is considered the French-language equivalent of the CBC News Network, also owned by the CBC.
Resources
RDI has the resources of information from the Radio-Canada/Canadian Broadcasting CorporationCanadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
(CBC) group:
- 400 journalists
- ten newsrooms in the Information centre in MontrealMontrealMontreal 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...
- 30 bureaus across Canada, and 7 foreign bureaus
Distribution
RDI is distributed on basic cable and satellite television to 9.8 million homes, including 2 million in Quebec and seen each week by half-million English viewers.Enroute Journal
RDI provides news, business, weather and sports information on Air CanadaAir Canada
Air Canada is the flag carrier and largest airline of Canada. The airline, founded in 1936, provides scheduled and charter air transport for passengers and cargo to 178 destinations worldwide. It is the world's tenth largest passenger airline by number of destinations, and the airline is a...
's inflight entertainment.
Programming
RDI broadcasts full local, national and international newscasts at the top of each hour and headlines every half hour from the newsroom of La Maison de Radio-CanadaMaison Radio-Canada
Maison Radio-Canada is a skyscraper in Montreal, constructed in 1973 as a home for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's operations in Montreal....
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...
and Quebec City
Quebec City
Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...
. Le Téléjournal Midi
Le Téléjournal
Le Téléjournal is the umbrella title used for the television newscasts aired on the Radio-Canada broadcast network. Le Téléjournal has been used since 1970 as the title of the network's flagship newscast, originating from Montreal, Quebec, and considered the French language equivalent of the...
is broadcast each weekday at 12pm and the main evening news bulletin Le Téléjournal/Le Point every evening live at 9:00 p.m. (eastern). These bulletins are also seen on the main French-language television network, Télévision de Radio-Canada
Télévision de Radio-Canada
Télévision de Radio-Canada is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, known in French as Société Radio-Canada. Headquarters are at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, which is also home to the network's flagship station, CBFT-DT...
. The channel covers big events live and also broadcasts regional news in the form of Le Téléjournal
Le Téléjournal
Le Téléjournal is the umbrella title used for the television newscasts aired on the Radio-Canada broadcast network. Le Téléjournal has been used since 1970 as the title of the network's flagship newscast, originating from Montreal, Quebec, and considered the French language equivalent of the...
Montréal and Le Téléjournal Atlantique.
The channel also broadcasts factual programs in the form of food program L'épicerie, current affairs in Les Grand Reportages (The Big Reports), science in Decouverte (Discovery) and Tout le Monde en Parlait - a look back at past culture seen through the eyes of current events. During the weekend there is a greater amount of these programs, much in the same format as its English-language counterpart, the CBC News Network.
RDI also carries Le Journal Télévisé de 20 heures from France 2
France 2
France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...
, rebroadcasting it the following weekday at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern).
Former Governor General
Governor General of Canada
The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...
Michaëlle Jean
Michaëlle Jean
Michaëlle Jean is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 27th since Canadian Confederation, from 2005 to 2010....
hosted programs for both the English and French language CBC networks. She presented Grands Reportages on RDI and The Passionate Eye
The Passionate Eye
The Passionate Eye is a Canadian documentary television series, which airs on CBC News Network.The series presents documentary programming from around the world....
on CBC Newsworld
CBC Newsworld
CBC News Network is a Canadian English language Category C specialty news channel owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. It is the world's third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in the United States and...
as well as having her own talk show, called Michaëlle. She also served as a substitute anchor on Le Téléjournal.
Original hosts
- Claude Desbiens, Le Monde ce matin (The World This Morning)
- Nathalie ChungNathalie ChungNathalie Chung is a Canadian news anchor and journalist for the Réseau de l'information television network, a Canadian French language news channel owned by the Société Radio-Canada...
, Aujourd'hui (week-end), Le monde ce soir (week-end) - Claude BeauchampClaude BeauchampClaude Beauchamp is a journalist, publisher, and political activist in the Canadian province of Quebec.-Journalist and publisher:Beauchamp began his career as a financial writer for La Presse and served as assistant publisher and editor-in-chief of Le Soleil in the late 1970s. He became president...
, Capital Actions - Michel JeanMichel JeanMichel Jean is a Canadian television journalist, who currently hosts the newsmagazine series JE on TVA and was formerly an anchor on the 24-hour news channel RDI.-References:...
, Le Québec en direct (Quebec Live) - Simon DurivageSimon DurivageSimon Durivage is a Canadian French-language television news anchor for RDI en direct. He was recruited by Radio-Canada in 1969 and has since hosted several newscasts and public affairs programs: Consommateurs avertis, Enjeux, Le Point, Montréal-Express, Montréal ce soir and Rédacteur en...
, Sans Détour - Pascale NadeauPascale NadeauPascale Nadeau is a Canadian news presenter for Télévision de Radio-Canada from Quebec. Previously a daytime presenter for the all-news network Réseau de l'information and a local presenter for CBFT in Montreal, she has been the weekend presenter of the network's flagship newscast Le Téléjournal...
, Aujourd'hui (Today) - Christine Fournier, Le Monde ce matin (The World This Morning)
- Pierre Chevrier, L'ouest en direct (The West Live)
- Michaëlle JeanMichaëlle JeanMichaëlle Jean is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 27th since Canadian Confederation, from 2005 to 2010....
, Le Canada aujourd'hui (Canada Today), Le Monde ce soir (The World This Evening) - Geneviève Asselin, RDI week-end (RDI Weekend)
- Jean Groulx, L'Ontario en direct (Ontario Live)
- Daniel Poirier, L'Atlantique en direct (The Atlantic Live)
- Odette Gough, RDI en ligne (RDI Online)
- Michelle Vimly, Le TéléjournalLe TéléjournalLe Téléjournal is the umbrella title used for the television newscasts aired on the Radio-Canada broadcast network. Le Téléjournal has been used since 1970 as the title of the network's flagship newscast, originating from Montreal, Quebec, and considered the French language equivalent of the...
1re édition (The Telejournal First Edition) - Bernard DeromeBernard DeromeBernard Derome, CM, OQ is a news anchor for SRC Television, who anchored the weeknight editions of Le Téléjournal until December 18, 2008.-Biography:...
, Le TéléjournalLe TéléjournalLe Téléjournal is the umbrella title used for the television newscasts aired on the Radio-Canada broadcast network. Le Téléjournal has been used since 1970 as the title of the network's flagship newscast, originating from Montreal, Quebec, and considered the French language equivalent of the...
1re édition (The Telejournal First Edition) - Nancy Sabourin, Au travail (Work)
Current anchors
- Simon DurivageSimon DurivageSimon Durivage is a Canadian French-language television news anchor for RDI en direct. He was recruited by Radio-Canada in 1969 and has since hosted several newscasts and public affairs programs: Consommateurs avertis, Enjeux, Le Point, Montréal-Express, Montréal ce soir and Rédacteur en...
- Geneviève Asselin
- Martine Defoy
- Brigitte Bougie
- Michel Viens
- Marie-Josée Bouchard
- Céline GalipeauCéline GalipeauCéline Galipeau, OQ is a Canadian news anchor for Radio-canada. Well-known for her comprehensive and insightful coverage from Moscow, she is currently the weekday anchor of the network's flagship newscast Le Téléjournal.-Early life:...
- Le TéléjournalLe TéléjournalLe Téléjournal is the umbrella title used for the television newscasts aired on the Radio-Canada broadcast network. Le Téléjournal has been used since 1970 as the title of the network's flagship newscast, originating from Montreal, Quebec, and considered the French language equivalent of the...
1re édition (The Telejournal First Edition) (evening from Monday to Thursday)
Weekends:
- Louis Lemieux - morning
- Claudine Bourbonnais - morning for the news
- Christine Fournier - afternoon
Current programs
- Le Journal RDI (RDI Journal)
- Le Journal de l'Atlantique (RDI Journal)
- RDI en directRDI en directRDI en direct is the main news program on the French-Canadian 24-hour news network RDI. It airs during most of the day, from 6am to 6pm ET, interrupted only by the national editions of Le Téléjournal at 8am ET and 12 Noon ET.-Anchors:...
(RDI Live) - hosted by Marie-Josée Bouchard, Simon DurivageSimon DurivageSimon Durivage is a Canadian French-language television news anchor for RDI en direct. He was recruited by Radio-Canada in 1969 and has since hosted several newscasts and public affairs programs: Consommateurs avertis, Enjeux, Le Point, Montréal-Express, Montréal ce soir and Rédacteur en...
and Michel Viens - Le Téléjournal / Matin - hosted by Marie-Josée Bouchard
- Le Téléjournal / Midi - hosted by Anne-Marie Dussault
- RDI Junior - hosted by Claudia Genel
- 24 heures en 60 minutes (24 Hours in 60 minutes) - hosted by Anne-Marie Dussault
- Le TéléjournalLe TéléjournalLe Téléjournal is the umbrella title used for the television newscasts aired on the Radio-Canada broadcast network. Le Téléjournal has been used since 1970 as the title of the network's flagship newscast, originating from Montreal, Quebec, and considered the French language equivalent of the...
- hosted by Céline GalipeauCéline GalipeauCéline Galipeau, OQ is a Canadian news anchor for Radio-canada. Well-known for her comprehensive and insightful coverage from Moscow, she is currently the weekday anchor of the network's flagship newscast Le Téléjournal.-Early life:...
(Monday to Thursday) and Pascale NadeauPascale NadeauPascale Nadeau is a Canadian news presenter for Télévision de Radio-Canada from Quebec. Previously a daytime presenter for the all-news network Réseau de l'information and a local presenter for CBFT in Montreal, she has been the weekend presenter of the network's flagship newscast Le Téléjournal...
(Friday to Sunday) - RDI Santé - hosted by Marie-Claude Lavallée
- Grands reportages (The Big Reports)- hosted by Simon DurivageSimon DurivageSimon Durivage is a Canadian French-language television news anchor for RDI en direct. He was recruited by Radio-Canada in 1969 and has since hosted several newscasts and public affairs programs: Consommateurs avertis, Enjeux, Le Point, Montréal-Express, Montréal ce soir and Rédacteur en...
- Le National
- Le Monde week-end
Radio-Canada Productions:
- L'Épicerie - hosted by Denis Gagné and Joane Despins
- Les Coulisses du Pouvoir (The corridors of Power) - hosted by Daniel Lessard
- DécouverteDécouverteDécouverte is a French language Canadian television series which airs on SRC and is hosted by Charles Tisseyre. The series airs news and documentary features relating to science and technology.-External links:*...
(Discovery)- hosted by Charles Tisseyre - EnquêteEnquêteEnquête is a Canadian television newsmagazine series, which airs weekly on Radio-Canada and RDI. The show is anchored by Alain Gravel, and includes contributions from journalists Hélène Courchesne, Josée Dupuis, Sylvie Fournier, Guy Gendron, Normand Grondin, Solveig Miller, Madeleine Roy,...
(Reports) - hosted by Alain Gravel - Une heure sur terre (Reports) - hosted by Jean-François Lépine
- Second Regard (A Second Look)- a religious show hosted by Alain Crevier
- La Facture - a consumer affairs program hosted by Pierre Craig
- La Semaine Verte (The Green Week) hosted by Errol Duchaine
Slogans
- L'information continue (Continuous information) 1995-?
- Source d'information (source of information) 2006-current. Advertised on-screen as analogous to a source of water, a source of energy etc.
RDI HD
As with Télévision de Radio-CanadaTélévision de Radio-Canada
Télévision de Radio-Canada is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, known in French as Société Radio-Canada. Headquarters are at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, which is also home to the network's flagship station, CBFT-DT...
. all programming aired on RDI began being produced in widescreen (and letterboxed on all standard definition feeds) on September 10, 2007. On May 2, 2008, RDI launched a high-definition
High-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, RDI HD.
See also
- Canadian Broadcasting CorporationCanadian Broadcasting CorporationThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
- Télévision de Radio-CanadaTélévision de Radio-CanadaTélévision de Radio-Canada is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, known in French as Société Radio-Canada. Headquarters are at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, which is also home to the network's flagship station, CBFT-DT...
- CBC News Network