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Encyclopedia > Infoplus

Infoplus is a French language news and information radio station, programmed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for Sirius Satellite Radio. French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the countrys national radio and television broadcaster. ... Sirius Satellite Radio NASDAQ: SIRI is a satellite radio (DARS) service in the United States that provides 68 streams (channels) of music and 55 streams of sports, news and entertainment. ...


The station is primarily an audio simulcast of the CBC's Réseau de l'information, with some additional programming sources. Simulcast is a contraction of simultaneous broadcast, and refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium at the same time. ... Réseau de linformation (RDI) is a 24 hour Canadian French language cable news television channel operated by CBC/Radio-Canada. ...


Infoplus is only available on Sirius Canada, and is not made available to American subscribers. However, the other French news service on Sirius, Première Plus, is available in the United States. The CBC provides two French language news channels, compared to one for English listeners, because the American parent service already provides other sources of English language news, including CNN, NPR and the BBC World Service. Sirius Canada is a Canadian partnership between Standard Broadcasting, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Sirius Satellite Radio, which was one of three services licensed by the CRTC on June 16, 2005 to introduce satellite radio service to Canada. ... La Première Chaîne is the news and information service of la Société Radio-Canada, the French-language public broadcaster in Canada. ... The Cable News Network, usually referred to as CNN, is a cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld [1] [2] (although the latter is not currently recognized in CNNs official history). ... NPR logo NPR redirects here. ... World Service logo The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 43 languages to around 150 million people throughout the world. ...



 

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