MONTREAL - Radio-Canada said today it has served Cogeco Inc.-controlled broadcaster TQS with a notice of disaffiliation. By virtue of a contractual agreement Radio-Canada's Television programming is presently broadcasted thanks to an affiliation to TQS. The current contract will soon be up for renewal in August 2008. “Since Radio-Canada wants to have the means and tools required to fulfill its mandate and meet the needs of residents in Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières and Saguenay, we concluded that disaffiliation was the best possible solution to achieve these objectives,” says a press release from Radio-Canada. “The broadcasting environment has changed radically since the contract...
