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Radio-Canada is the
French-language arm of the CBC, and its television
network has actually been more profitable, and therefore
more successful, than the English network. SRC
broadcasts the most Canadian content of any television
network in Canada, English or French—over 90% of SRC's
schedule each week consists of Canadian shows. Any
American programming broadcast on SRC is obviously
dubbed into French. Radio-Canada produces Francophone
Canadian versions of a few popular American programs. A
few SRC-produced programs have also made it onto CBC's
English channels, usually meeting with mixed reaction
from the CBC's Anglophone viewers.
The first group of
Canadians to welcome and take advantage of the new
medium of television were Francophones. Television now
plays a very important part in the identity and culture
of Canada's French-speaking people.
The above information
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