The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television The program Vlog, hosted by Geneviève Borne and Dominic Arpin was first aired in September 2007, but quickly went off the air on December 2, of the same year, after only 10 weeks, as it failed to meet TVA’s expectations. The program returned however in the fall […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 1993 Broadcast Medium: Television JE (for “investigative journalism”) was an investigative journalism program that began broadcast over the TVA network in 1993. With a team of two co-hosts and seven journalist-researchers, JE investigated cases that were submitted to them by the general public: frauds, abusive or stagnant legal procedures and dishonest companies or […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1962 to 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television 1962 was the year that the actor Michel Noël first put on his Capitaine Bonhomme hat at Télé-Métropole, which was then a spanking new TV channel, on the program Le Zoo du Capitaine Bonhomme. The adventure would last 15 years. In 1968, Le Zoo du Capitaine […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2014 Broadcast Medium: Television Toute la vérité is a series written by Annie Piérard and Bernard Dansereau, which first aired on February 1, 2010 and that looks at the wonderful world of lawyers and more particularly that of Crown prosecutors who live in a world where the stakes are naturally very […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 to 2013 Broadcast Medium: Television The humorist Michel Barrette and the actor Julien Poulin join forces to create an entertaining couple on TVA in the comedy series Rock et Rolland whose broadcast began in 2010. The TVA network and Just For Laughs enter into a partnership to produce this program that depicts the […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2010 Broadcast Medium: Television The weekly program Fidèles au poste debuted in September 2010. Éric Salvail is the host. The program digs deep into TVA’s archives to bring back memories to TV viewers and showcases television. Two teams of three personalities participate in the show. They have to meet various challenges, such […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television Yamaska is a soap opera created by Anne Boyer and Michel D’Astous. The series began airing on September 28, 2009. It’s the story of three families (the Harrisons, Carpentiers and Brabants) living in the small city of Granby, in the Eastern Townships, whose lives become quite dramatic […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 1989 Broadcast Medium: Television Salut, Bonjour! is a morning program, which has been on the air since 1989, broadcast Monday to Friday between 5:30 and 9:00. The program was initially hosted by Claude Saucier. Guy Mongrain, Benoit Gagnon and Gino Chouinard successively took over the reins of Salut, Bonjour! On the menu: a […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 to 2013 Broadcast Medium: Television Le Gentleman is a series created by Anne Boyer and Michel D’Astous that was broadcast starting on October 8, 2009. Louis Cadieux is a very mysterious and somewhat impolite double agent. When his girlfriend Kim is involved in an attack where she is a victim, Louis will […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2009 Broadcast Medium: Television La classe de 5e is a TV game show that was first broadcast on February 5, 2009. It is an adaptation of the American concept Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader? hosted by Charles Lafortune. The program challenges contestants, 18 years old and older, to prove that they’re […]