Réseau de l'information
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| Réseau de l'information (RDI) | |
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| Type | Cable television specialty channel |
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| Country |  Canada |
| Availability | National |
| Slogan | Source d'information |
| Owner | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Launch date | January 1, 1995 |
| Website | radio-canada.ca/nouvelles |
Réseau de l'information (RDI) is a 24 hour Canadian French language cable television news channel operated by CBC/Radio-Canada. RDI, the French-language equivalent of CBC Newsworld, began broadcasting on January 1, 1995.
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[edit] Resources
RDI has the resources of information from the Radio-Canada/CBC group:
- 400 journalists
- ten newsrooms in the Information centre in Montreal
- 30 bureaus across Canada, and 7 foreign bureaus
[edit] 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.
[edit] Enroute Journal
RDI provides news, business, weather and sports information on Air Canada's inflight entertainment.
[edit] 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-Canada in Montréal and Québec 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, CBC Newsworld.
RDI also carries Le Journal Televisé de 20 heures from France 2, rebroadcasting it the following weekday at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern).
The current Governor General of Canada, Michaëlle Jean, nominated September 27, 2005, hosted programs for both English and French language 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.
La Semaine Verte (The Green Week), is presented in subtitled format on the English CBC Country Canada network.
[edit] Original hosts
- Claude Desbiens, Le Monde ce matin (The World This Morning)
- Nathalie Chung, Aujourd'hui (week-end), Le monde ce soir (week-end)
- Claude Beauchamp, Capital Actions
- Michel Jean, Le Quebec en direct (Quebec Live)
- Simon Durivage, Sans Detour
- Pascale Nadeau, Aujourd'hui (Today)
- Christine Fournier, Le Monde ce matin (The World This Morning)
- Pierre Chevrier, L'ouest en direct (The West Live)
- Michaëlle Jean, 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 Téléjournal 1re edition (The Telejournal First Edition)
- Bernard Derome, Le Téléjournal 1re edition (The Telejournal First Edition) –-current
- Nancy Sabourin, Au travail (Work)
[edit] Current anchors
- Simon Durivage
- Geneviève Asselin
- Christine Fournier
- Martine Defoy
- Brigitte Bougie
[edit] Current programs
- Le Journal RDI (RDI Journal)
- Le Journal de l'Atlantique (RDI Journal)
- RDI en direct (RDI Live) - hosted by Michel Viens or Simon Durivage
- Le Téléjournal / Matin - hosted by Michel Viens or Louis Lemieux
- Le Téléjournal / Midi - hosted by Pascale Nadeau
- RDI Junior - hosted by Anaïs Favron
- Dominique Poirier en direct - hosted by Dominique Poirier
- Le Téléjournal, Le Point - hosted by Bernard Derome or Céline Galipeau
- Les rendez-vous de Marie-Claude - hosted by Marie-Claude Lavallée
- Grands reportages (The Big Reports)
- Capital Actions (Business round-up)- Hosted by Gérald Fillion
- Le National
- Le Monde week-end - hosted by Jean Bédard
- L'Épicerie
- Les Coulisses du Pouvoir (The corridors of Power) - hosted by Daniel Lessard
- 5 x 5 - hosted by Gilles Gougeon
- Découverte (Discovery)- hosted by Charles Tisseyre
- Vivre Ici - cultural show hosted by Pascale Nadeau
- Zones de Guerre (War Zones) - hosted by Christine Fournier
- 30 Millions d'Amis (30 Million Friends)
- Tout le Monde en Parlait (Everybody Was Talking)
- La Semaine Verte (The Green Week)
- Enjeux (Issues) - hosted by Alain Gravel
- Ushuaia Nature - hosted by Nicolas Hulot
- Second Regard (A Second Look)- a religious show hosted by Alain Crevier
- Zone Libre - hosted by Jean-François Lépine
- La Facture - a consumer affairs program hosted by Pierre Craig
[edit] 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.
[edit] Logos
 1994-era RDI logo from first day of broadcast (screenshot) |
 Updated version of the original logo before its switch to the current logo |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official Site (French)
| CBC Television |
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| English networks: CBC Television | CBC North | CBC Newsworld | CBC Country Canada | Documentary Channel |
| French networks: Télévision de Radio-Canada | Réseau de l'information | ARTV |
| Digital-only channels: Galaxie |
| Defunct channels: Newsworld International | CBC Parliamentary Television Network |
| Proposed channels: CBC-2 | Télé-2 |
