Bandeapart is a website devoted to Canadian arts and music. Graphic representation of the world wide web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). ... Canada is a sovereign state in northern North America, the northern-most country in the world, and the second largest in total area. ...

Operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Bandeapart is the French counterpart to CBC Radio Three. The sites had their genesis in a 1997 plan to open a third radio network, devoted to youth culture. Although the original radio network proposal was abandoned, the CBC launched Radio Three and Bandeapart as pilot projects through its new media division. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known by the abbreviation CBC, is Canadas state-owned radio and television service. ... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... CBC Radio Three is a website devoted to Canadian arts and music. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ...

Bandeapart also rebroadcasts some of its content as a Friday and Saturday night program on Espace musique. Espace musique is the French language musical radio service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation / Société Radio-Canada, the national public broadcaster in Canada. ...

The CBC has announced a partnership with Standard Broadcasting and Sirius Satellite Radio, with the intent of introducing satellite radio service to Canada. Its application and two others for satellite radio service are currently before the CRTC. If the application is approved, CBC Radio Three and Bandeapart will become full-time stations on that service. Standard Broadcasting is a Canadian radio broadcasting group. ... Sirius Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) is a satellite radio (DARS) service in the United States that provides 65 streams (channels) of music and 55 streams of sports, news and entertainment. ... A satellite radio is a special radio that receives signals broadcast by satellite. ... The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, in French Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes) was established in 1968 by the Canadian Parliament to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors. ...

External Link

• Bandeapart (http://bandeapart.fm/index2.asp)