Memo to Radio-Canada

By Andre Nantel
September 12th, 2005 @ 6:22 PM Uncategorized

Please identify the idiot who suggested moving the French news report from 6h PM to 5h30 PM and throw him/her off the Jacques Cartier Bridge. At 5h30 I am either stuck in traffic or making diner and, quite frankly, I don’t give a flying fuck about Vero and I don’t consider myself to be in the same socio-economic level as the target audience of TVA and TQS. There goes 60% of my tiny exposure to French-language television.

So I switched to CFCF where I got to see one of my good friend and colleague, Dr. Gerald Batist of the MUHC, talk about colon cancer.

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5 Comments so far

  1. Christelle (unregistered) September 12th, 2005 7:30 pm

    I agree! 18h is the time to watch news. I was dissapointed tonight when I opened my television at 17h57 and saw the news lady saying “we’ll see you tomorrow”. And then Vero came on! And like you, I do not enjoy as much TVA news and even less TQS.

    RDI does have the Telejournal also from 17h30 to 18h30.

    But Vero should be at 17h and then news at 18h. Not the opposite!

  2. Frank (unregistered) September 14th, 2005 3:08 pm

    Hello, I moved here fairly recently and was wondering if you had any recommendations regarding news outlets (morning or evening TV news, Radio, Newspaper, Internet) since you all seem to be from here. I would like to ween myself off of CNN and get more of the Canadian, Quebec, and local perspective.

    So far Global National seems a bit sensational, CBC is on strike (no local Montreal internet news), and the Gazette is now a pay site. I have also had stints listening to NPR and 940AM

  3. Franc (unregistered) September 24th, 2005 10:58 pm

    I remember CTV CFCF 12’s 6 PM news to be an OK middle-of-the road newscast…they have a fun to watch on-screen team…

  4. Guillaume (unregistered) October 11th, 2005 2:47 am

    There is always les ondes courtes (shorwave) radio with a wide variety of news booming into Montreal from four points of the compass.
    See (for English) the World English page from the
    Ontario DX club which will give you a rough idea of
    what is there in ED(S)T.
    http://www.odxa.on.ca/WES.pdf

  5. Christelle (unregistered) November 15th, 2005 5:16 pm

    Guess what! The news will be back to its usual time (18h) starting from the 12th of December! It seems complaining at Radio-Canada like I did helped…!
    http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2005/11/15/003-radiocanada-18h.shtml


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