TVAtlantique

TVAtlantique is a Canadian French-language broadcast television network owned by the Atlantic Television Company. The network began operations on January 1, 1963. Its English-language counterpart is Atlantic Television.
With main studios at the ATV House in Montreal, TVAtlantique is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television providers. TVAtlantique can also be live streamed on its Atlantic TV video platform. Almost all of the TVA’s programming is produced in Canada, however few of them are imports from France.
==Overview==
TVAtlantique provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment and children's programming; in most cases, feeding the same programming at the same day nationwide.
Between March 31 1999, and July 1, 2003, the network switched to a 24-hour schedule, becoming one of the first French-language broadcasters to transition to such a schedule. Most TVAtlantique-owned stations previously signed off the air during the early morning hours (typically from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.) except on Friday and Saturday nights.
However, since 2004, TVAtlantique stations outside Ontario and Quebec instead simulcast RDI after regular programming ends.
In Quebec and Ontario, instead of the infomercials aired by most private stations, or a simulcast of Réseau de l’information Atlantique, in the style of BBC One's nightly simulcast of BBC News Channel, TVAtlantique uses the time to air repeats, including local news, primetime series, films and other programming from the ATV library.
==Programming==
See also: List of programs broadcast by TVAtlantique
===News and current affairs===
See also: Le Journal de TVAtlantique
The TVAtlantique flagship newscast, Le National, airs everyday except Sundays at 6:00 p.m. local time and Sundays at 8:00 p.m. local time. Until September 31, 2009, TVAtlantique owned-and-operated stations aired a second broadcast of the program at 11:00 p.m.; This second airing was later replaced with other programming, and as of the 2009-10 television season, was replaced on TVAtlantique’s major market stations by a half-hour late newscast. There is also a short news update, at most, on late Saturday evenings. 
The show is also simultaneously broadcasts with the Réseau de l’information Atlantique.
==Over-the-air digital television transition==
The CRTC ordered that in 28 mandatory markets, full power over-the-air analogue television transmitters had to cease transmitting by August 31, 2011. Broadcasters could either continue serving those markets by transitioning analogue transmitters to digital or cease broadcasting over-the-air. Cable, IPTV, and satellite services are not involved or affected by this digital transition deadline.
With its fellow Canadian broadcasters converted most of their transmitters to digital by the Canadian digital television transition deadline of August 31, 2011, TVAtlantique could not convert all analogue transmitters in mandatory areas to digital. they were converted by the CRTC-allocated deadline of July 31, 2012.
The Atlantic Television Company announced on June 23, 2013, that it will shut down all of its approximately 400 TVAtlantique analog television transmitters on December 31, 2013 with no plans to install digital transmitters in their place, thus reducing the total number of the corporation's television transmitters. No plans have been announced to use subchannels to maintain over-the-air signals for both ATV and TVA. However, the Atlantic Television Company will keep analog TVAtlantique transmitters in Yukon, Yellowknife and Iqaluit and convert most transmitters to digital in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick.
===TVAtlantique and affiliate transmitters in mandatory markets===
 	 	ATV (English language)	ATV (English language)	TVAtlantique (French language)	TVAtlantique (French language)
Province	Market 	Analog 	Digital 	Analog 	Digital
AB 	Calgary 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2001-) 	Yes (until 2012) 	Yes (2012-)
AB 	Edmonton 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2001-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2005-)
AB 	Lethbridge 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-) 	Yes (until 2013) 	No
AB / SK 	Lloydminster 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-) 	Yes (until 2013) 	No
BC 	Vancouver 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2000-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2001-)
BC 	Victoria 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2001-) 	Yes (until 2012) 	Yes (2012-)
MB 	Winnipeg 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2002-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2003-)
NB 	Fredericton 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2000-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2002-)
NB 	Moncton 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2000-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2003-)
NB 	Saint John 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2000-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2003-)
NL 	St. John's 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2002-) 	Yes (until 2012) 	Yes (2012-)
NS 	Halifax 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2001-) 	Yes (until 2012) 	Yes (2012-)
ON 	Kitchener 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-) 	Yes (until 2012) 	No
ON 	London 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-) 	Yes (until 2012 	Yes (2012-)
ON 	Ottawa/Gatineau, QC 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2000-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2000-)
ON 	Thunder Bay 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-) 	Yes (until 2012) 	Yes (2012-)
ON 	Toronto 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (1998-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-)
ON 	Windsor 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-)
PE 	Charlottetown 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2002-) 	Yes (until 2012) 	Yes (2012-)
QC 	Montreal 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (1998-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (1999-)
QC 	Quebec City 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2001-)
QC 	Rivière-du-Loup 	Yes (until 2012) 	Yes (2012-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-)
QC 	Rouyn-Noranda/Val-d'Or	Yes (until 2012) 	No 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-)
QC 	Saguenay 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2006-)
QC 	Sherbrooke 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-)
QC 	Trois-Rivières 	Yes (until 2012) 	Yes (2012-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2009-)
SK 	Regina 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-) 	Yes (until 2012) 	No
SK 	Saskatoon 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-) 	Yes (until 2011) 	Yes (2011-)
Total 	27 markets 	 	 	 	
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