Ici TOU.TV

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ICI TOU.TV
Screenshot of the website as seen on February 14, 2010.
Type of site
Video on demand
Available in French
Headquarters Montreal , Quebec , Canada
Owner Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Industry Web television
Parent Ici Radio-Canada Tele
URL ici.tou.tv
Advertising Yes
Registration Optional; required for contents with the Extra label
Launched January 26, 2010

ICI TOU.TV is a French Canadian , video-on-demand website launched on January 26, 2010, by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , currently branded CBC/Radio-Canada.

ICI TOU.TV, a French-language streaming service, offers primarily French and Quebecois (French Canadian) content, including movies, series, documentaries, entertainment, etc. They also offer some content from English-speaking countries like the US, UK, and the rest of Canada. English-language content is generally dubbed in French, without subtitles.

ICI TOU.TV is geo-located and is only legally available in Canada.

CBC/Radio-Canada also offers an English-language streaming service, CBC Gem, which includes a large library of English-language content, as well as some French- and other foreign-language content. The non-English content is generally offered with English subtitles though, not dubbing.

CBC Gem and ICI TOU.TV are both free to watch in Canada, with ads. They also offer Premium, ad-free memberships for a reasonable monthly price ($5.99 and $7.99 before taxes, respectively). Premium membership with one service does not give you Premium access to the other?though they are both CBC/Radio-Canada streaming services, they each require their own membership.

Both services offer free trials, generally 7 days.

History [ edit ]

At launch, the site offered 2000 hours of French-language television content, near high definition in quality, provided by several TV channels, such as Ici Radio-Canada Tele , Ici RDI , Ici ARTV , Tele-Quebec , TV5Monde , TV5 Quebec Canada , TFO , Radio Canada International , RTS ( Switzerland ) and RTBF ( Belgium ). [1] [2]

In February 2014, the site was re-branded as Ici TOU.TV as part of a plan to unify the CBC's French-language outlets around a single brand. [3] [4]

In May 2018, it was announced that Bell Media , the National Film Board of Canada , TV5 Quebec Canada, and V Media Group would contribute content to TOU.TV's premium Extra tier, as part of an effort to better compete with Netflix on the availability of Quebecois and French-language content. [5] Other distributors such as Tele-Quebec later joined the partnership.

Bell Media left the partnership after the company's rival service, Crave , expanded into the French-language market. As a result, all of their content previously found on Ici TOU.TV has since moved to the aforementioned service. The V section was also removed later on after Bell Media bought the brand from V Media Group (now Remstar Media Group); it was the only brand the latter company licensed to Ici TOU.TV.

Available contents and sections [ edit ]

Contents found on the service mostly include original series from Radio-Canada's television networks and streaming services, as well as acquisitions from other distributors. While some can be watched for free with advertisement, those with the Extra label require a paid subscription to the service so that it can be accessed. Following the website rebrand in May 2018, contents are placed into sections such as the following:

Current [ edit ]

Devices Supported [ edit ]

The ICI TOU.TV streaming platform supports access through most modern web browsers, as well as apps for iOS / iPadOS , Android and Android TV devices, Apple TV , Xbox One , Amazon Fire TV , Chromecast , Roku and Telus Optik TV set top boxes. It was previously available as an app on LG and Samsung Smart TVs, Windows 8 , Xbox 360 and Rogers Cable set top boxes.

Geo-Location and Availability [ edit ]

ICI TOU.TV is geo-located and is only available in Canada.

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ Therrien, Richard (2010-01-26). "Vos emissions a portee de main sur TOU.TV" . Le Soleil (in French). Quebec City : Gesca Limitee . ISSN   0319-0730 . Retrieved 2010-01-30 .
  2. ^ Aude Boivin Filion (2010-01-27). "Quelles technologies utilise le portail TOU.TV de Radio-Canada?" . Branchez-vous!. Archived from the original on 2010-02-11 . Retrieved 2010-02-08 . .
  3. ^ "Le minister Moore reticent au changement de nom de Radio-Canada" . Radio-Canada.ca (in French). Societe Radio-Canada. June 5, 2013 . Retrieved June 20, 2013 .
  4. ^ "New Brand Architecture" (PDF) . News Releases . CBC/Radio-Canada French Services. June 6, 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 23, 2015 . Retrieved June 20, 2013 .
  5. ^ "Are Quebec media slightly ahead of our time?" . The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 2018-06-07 .

External links [ edit ]

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