Canadian Forces Radio and Television

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English: Canadian Forces Radio and Television (Call sign: CFRT), French: Radiotélévision des Forces canadiennes (Call sign: RTFC), is a television and radio network system broadcast by satellite to those members of the Canadian Forces ground forces who are serving overseas in places such as the Middle East, Africa and Europe and, due to popular demand, the service began broadcasting to Her Majesty's Canadian Ships in April 2002. The network is not available domestically within Canada.

The network consists of two separate feeds, one for each of Canada's official languages, English and French, sourcing programming from the CBC/Radio-Canada, and commercial networks such as CTV and TVA.

In Europe the radio broadcast only in FM in the following frequencies: 100.5 in SHAPE (Belgium), 96.9 and 99.7 in Brunssum (Netherlands) and Geilenkirchen (Germany); and in 101.9 in Ramstein (Germany).

On unencrypted digital Satellite Radio the radio broadcast is available in Europe from Astra 19.2 East on transponder 57.

[edit] See also

• American Forces Network
• British Forces Broadcasting Service
• Israel Army Radio

[edit] External links

• Official CFRT English language website
• Official CFRT French-language website
• CFRT television schedule
• RTFC television schedule
• Canadian Forces Network (CFN Europe) (English)
• Réseau des Forces Canadiennes (RFC Europe) (French)