Le Canal Nouvelles [SEP] industry
Le Canal Nouvelles
Le Canal Nouvelles (LCN) is a Canadian French language Category C 24-hour headline news specialty channel owned by Groupe TVA, a division of Québecor. Its broadcasting headquarters are located in Montreal, Quebec. The channel, operated and programmed by the TVA Nouvelles division, was launched on September 8, 1997.
Programming.
LCN broadcasts two 30-minute news segments per hour with headlines scrolling at the bottom of the screen.
Québecor also owns the TVA network. Many news reports shown on TVA are also
number of cable channels continued: MusiquePlus in 1986; MétéoMédia in 1987; Réseau de l'information and Canal D in 1995; MusiMax, Canal Vie, Télétoon, and Le Canal Nouvelles in 1997; Évasion, Historia, Séries+ and Canal Z, now Ztélé, in 2000; and ARTV in 2001.
In the middle of the decade, as the growth of digital cable expanded, digital-only cable channels began to appear; today they include such channels as AddikTV, Argent, CASA, Cinépop, MOI&cie, Prise 2