Anglo-Quebec

Anglo-Québec
Launched	January 19, 1975 (1975-01-19)
Owned by	Quebec Broadcasting System (Government of Quebec)
Country	Canada
Language	English
Broadcast area	Quebec
Affiliates	see list of stations
Headquarters	Lorimier Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Website	www.telequebec.tv
Availability
Terrestrial
WNQT (Montreal)	1
CHRC (Quebec City)	2
CKCH (Hull)	3
CHOY (Saint Jerome)	4
CFKL (Schefferville)	5

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Anglo-Québec is a Canadian English-language public educational television network in the province of Quebec. It is a provincial Crown corporation owned by the Government of Quebec. The network's main studios and headquarters are located at the corner of de Lorimier Street and East René Lévesque Boulevard in Montreal.

The network serves as the Anglo-Quebec counterpart of Télé-Québec, broadcasting English-language programming to Anglo-Quebecers within the province's quality areas, serving as a sister outlet to Télé-Québec and its French-language content.

Anglo-Quebec is the primary English-speaking Quebec equivalent to Ontario's TVO and its French counterpart TFO, as well as Alberta's Access Public Television and and British Columbia's Knowledge Network, with a usually similar to the American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and its affiliated state networks, in that it is somewhat modest in scope, runs mostly educational or cultural programming and does not try to compete with privately owned television networks (such as CTV) or with CBC Television, the English-language service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

History

When Télé-Québec launched its over-the-air transmitters on January 19, 1975, primarily with the sign-ons of CIVM-TV in Montreal and CIVQ-TV in Quebec City in which they basically started making its programming available to an even wider audience, it aired English-language programming on Weekdays anywhere from noon until sign-off, particularly through its unique and loved weekday, hour-long, instructional program Quebec School Telecasts and its successor Quebec School Television. In 1978, the English Language Arts Network (ELAN) filed an intervention to CRTC within their planned licence renewals for the service, seeking that Télé-Québec be required to devote 20% of its programming and budget to programs of interest to an anglophone, indigenous, and other visible minority communities of Quebec. The proposal called for at least 10% of this quota to be put towards English-language programming. While the CRTC declined the request, stating that it was beyond the scope of licence renewal, and that it should be the subject of a policy proceeding in which broadcasters as a whole are considered, it did make the provincial Government of Quebec conclude that a separate anglophone educational network was needed to prevent the ghettoization of the Anglo-Quebecor community by 1981.

In February 1982, the Quebec Ministry of Municipal and Cultural Affairs, together with Communications Canada, approved the creation of an Quebec-based English-language educational television network. At the time, the only portions of Quebec with access to a dedicated anglophone educational television service were either the National Capital Region and/or the Ottawa Valley, which were by this point served by TVOntario outlet CNCR-TV within Ottawa. In October 1984, the new network received its broadcast licence from the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). On February 1, 1985, the network was officially launched by the Société de télédiffusion du Québec under the name Anglo-Quebec. The company remains part of Télé-Québec to this day, even if not operating most primary finances within the broadcaster.

Programming

(TBA)

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