Radio Canada International

Radio Canada International (RCI ) is the foreign service of CBC / Radio -Canada and produced at the radio station in Montréal ( Québec ) radio programs in the Canadian national languages ​​English and French and in other languages ​​(Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, etc.) for listeners outside Canada. Due to budget cuts by the Conservative federal government, the production of RCI is close to collapse.

Transmitter

The transmitter system Sackville Radio Canada International was commissioned in 1945 with two 50 KW transmitters in operation and shut down in June 2012. It la about five km from the town of 5,300 residents counted Sackville in the southeastern corner of New Brunswick / Nouveau Brunswick on the border with Nova Scotia / Nouvelle Ecosse. During the months of July and August visits were carried out free of charge.

In 1962, a further 50 KW transmitter had been added. In the years 1972 - 1977 the plant was expanded with five additional 250 KW transmitter. Since 2012, RCI can only be heard online yet.

Programs

Shortwave

The short-wave broadcasts in Europe were restricted in the summer of 2008. There are no broadcasts via relay stations for the English and the French program. Both were only to receive directly from Canada. Following an announcement in April RCI has its entire broadcasts on shortwave set on June 24, 2012. This is the result of extensive budget cuts.

Satellite

Today there are a total of three programs for Europe: RCI1 sends in English, French and RCI2 RCI3 provides a language mix. They all can be received via satellite on Hotbird 13 ° East. In North America, customers of the pay package Sirius Satellite Radio can also enjoy looking at an English-language 24-hour program.

Internet

Since 2006 RCI spreads its program on the Internet via the channel RCI Viva, the podcasts and a live stream holds. In addition, a daily information bulletin, which will be subscribed to "Cyber ​​Magazine", which also links may inter alia contains the news page on the Internet.