Radio / Television News

CSR to provide French content to hurricane victims

MONTREAL – Canadian Satellite Radio isn’t operating in Canada yet, but it’s soon to be on the air in the United States. CSR will help its U.S. partner, XM Satellite Radio, broadcast French content to its dedicated New Orleans emergency information channel. An estimated tens of thousands of Louisianans speak French, and it’s essential they get the information they need in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, CSR says. "One of the benefits of satellite radio is that it can go where land-based radio cannot go,” says André Di Cesare, CSR’s head of French talent and industry relations. “With so many...