'Réseau de l'information' (RDI) is a
Canadian French language cable television news channel operated by
CBC/Radio-Canada. RDI began broadcasting on
January 1,
1995 and is considered the French-language equivalent of
CBC Newsworld, also owned by the CBC.
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
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.
Enroute Journal
RDI provides news, business, weather and sports information on
Air Canada's inflight entertainment.
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.
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)
Current anchors
★
Simon Durivage
★
Geneviève Asselin
★
Christine Fournier
★
Martine Defoy
★
Brigitte Bougie
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
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.
Logos
See also
★
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
★
Télévision de Radio-Canada
★
CBC Newsworld
External links
★
Official Site
★
RDI Live