New French specialty channels tackle extreme sports and entertaining

OTTAWA – French language viewers will soon be able to combine the thrills of wakeboarding with learning how to make the perfect omelette. The CRTC today approved two national Category 2 specialty services, Radical Télé, a channel dedicated to extreme sports and Cuisine, a food and nutrition channel.RDL Média inc. says Radical Télé will be devoted to extreme sports such as snowboarding, surfing, skateboarding, wakeboarding and FMX (freestyle motocross) and to the lifestyle associated with these extreme sports (fashion, social events and places where these sports are practised).“The purpose of the service would be to allow Canadians to experience vicariously...