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Quebec television is an important part of the culture of the province of Quebec in Canada. The prime-time French-language téléromans (soap operas) constitute one of the core cultural elements of Quebec which is shared by nearly all the citizens of the province regardless of their social status or their education. The exception may be people who watch only foreign channels (also called calice d'immigrants sales) or do not even own a television, but even then they are surely aware of what is going on in the latest soaps because of the pervasive nature of television, advertising and word of mouth. The soaps are all broadcast in evening prime-time hours, on the state-run French-language federal television network as well as on the private French-language networks such as TVA. Jump to: navigation, search As a North American society and the only society on the continent with a French-speaking majority, the culture of the province of Quebec, Canada shows many unique features. ...
A téléroman (telenovel) is a French language dramatic television series, similar to a soap opera or a Spanish language telenovela, in Quebec. ...
Beginning in 1963, a terrorist group that became known as the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) launched a decade of bombings, robberies and attacks on government offices and at least two murders by FLQ gunfire and three violent deaths by bombings. ...
TVA is a private commercial French-language television network in Quebec. ...
Quebec television and its evening soap operas that did and still do so much to define the province as a distinct francophone entity originated on the Société Radio-Canada (CBC) network funded by the Government of Canada. As a result, there are quite a few links to the media in Canada. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known by the abbreviation CBC, is Canadas government-owned radio and television broadcaster. ...
System of government Canada is a constitutional monarchy as a Commonwealth Realm (see Monarchy in Canada) with a federal system of parliamentary government, and strong democratic traditions. ...
Canada has a well-developed media sector, but cultural output—particularly in English Canada—is often overshadowed by imports from the United States. ...
The existence of Quebec consumer culture and a consumer society distinct from other similar societies in North America and Europe is a corollary of this common core of TV watching. All of the prime-time soaps, including those run on the CBC network, are supported by advertising. Nearly all of this advertising is made in the province of Quebec or translated specifically for the francophone audience from "modular" commercials planned for translation. In the first decade of the introduction of TV, in the 1950s, many commercials were translated to French very simply, from the English commercials run on English-language networks in Canada and the United States. Jump to: navigation, search World map showing North America (geographically) A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and...
World map showing Europe (geographically) When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ...
As the television advertising industry developed and production facilities were built, during the 1960s major commercial advertisers began to use local Quebec personalities and actors instead of U.S. or English-Canadian individuals. Two decades later nearly all breakfast cereals, appliances and automobiles were being advertised on the French-language networks using Quebec French texts (usually written in Montreal) and local actors and personalities. Commercials made in France cannot be reused because, for the most part, they advertise goods and services which are not available in North America, and the cultural references of Paris and its "street language" or argot do not connect with the "street language" or joual of Montreal and its cultural reality of summer jazz festivals and extremely cold winter weather, to name but two differences. Quebec French or Québécois French is a dialect of French spoken natively by the great majority (82. ...
Jump to: navigation, search City motto: Concordia Salus (Latin: Well-being through harmony) Province Quebec Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area - % water 500. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...
Joual is the name given by some to a working-class sociolect of Quebec French spoken in Montreal, after its pronunciation of the word cheval (horse). ...
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