CORRECTION: TFO seeks must-offer status; cites national demand for French-language TV content

TORONTO – Some 88% of Canadians living in provinces with little access to French-language television programing say that they want more content in that language, while 56% say that they would watch a French educational television channel if it was offered by their TV service provider, according to an Ipsos Marketing survey for Groupe Média TFO.The French-language educational media company recently applied to the CRTC to both renew its existing broadcasting licence for its TFO television channel, and to ask for “must-offer status” to make TFO a mandatory offering by TV providers across Canada. (A previous version of this story...