The Industry
There are two primary television seasons of approximately 13 weeks each: a fall season running from the beginning of September to December, and a winter season running from January to April. It is during these two periods that the majority of new domestic series air.
Nearly all television is owned by five companies: the federally-owned Société Radio-Canada, Groupe TVA, Astral Media, Remstar, and the provincially-owned Société de télédiffusion du Québec. These companies produce programming themselves or, more commonly, by independent producers. Tax breaks provided to independent producers have increased their workload, although the two largest networks produce a large amount of programming themselves.
Television production is centered in Montreal, where Radio-Canada and TVA have their large studio complexes and where most other independent studio facilities exist. A small amount of national programming is produced in Quebec City, in accordance with the licenses of the broadcast networks.
Read more about this topic: Television In Quebec
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