Avis de Recherche
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| Avis de Recherche | |
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| Launched | October 21, 2004 |
| Owned by | Avis de Recherche Inc. (Vincent Géracitano) |
| Country | Canada |
| Broadcast area | National |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec |
| Website | avisderecherche.tv |
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| Satellite | |
| Bell ExpressVu | Channel 187 |
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| Vidéotron | Channel 46 |
| CCAP | Channel 46 |
| Cablovision Warwick | Channel 46 |
Avis de Recherche (ADR) is a Canadian French language category 2 digital cable specialty channel devoted to crime prevention.
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[edit] Programming and format
It is a specialty service dedicated to help law enforcement authorities; where viewers are invited to communicate any clues, tips and leads which might help police find missing persons or resolve criminal acts.
Programming on this channel comes in the form of capsules or segments that vary from 30-60 seconds in length and feature bulletins from the police regarding various crimes, missing and/or wanted persons. This format repeats over a 24 hour period.
[edit] History
[edit] Before the launch
Avis de Recherche's history dates back to 1999, when founder Vincent Géracitano's Montreal office was broken into. Géracitano caught the thieves on surveillance video, but police didn't have a way to broadcast the tape, and the case wasn't sensational enough to be carried in the news. This incident sparked the idea for Avis de Recherche.
In September 2002, Géracitano was granted, by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), a category 2 digital cable television channel licence to operate Avis de Recherche.
[edit] After the launch
Two years after being granted the licence, on October 21, 2004, ADR launched exclusively on Vidéotron in Quebec. Unlike most other specialty channels who collect a subscription fee from cable companies for distribution, ADR was paying Vidéotron roughly $.02 per subscriber to be distributed on its basic cable system for free. With this fee and no other source of revenue (ie. no commercials, etc), ADR was running at a loss for several years.
In 2006, ADR along with several other current and new television licences, applied to to either keep or gain mandatory digital basic cable status on all digital cable providers. In July 2007, ADR was approved as a must-carry service on digital cable in Quebec, with a subscription fee of of $0.06 per subscriber. Later that year, Quebecor Media, owner of Vidéotron, appealed the decision to the Privy Council, which lead the CRTC to reconsider its decision. However, in January 2008, the CRTC approves its original decision with minor adjustments, which effective January 24, 2008, all digital cable providers in Quebec must carry ADR on its basic cable system.
[edit] External links
- Official Avis de Recherche website (French)
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