CFTU-DT

CFTU-DT (channel 29), branded on-air as savoir média, is a French-language educational independent television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The station is owned by Savoir Media, a private consortium consisting primarily of Quebec-based post-secondary institutions. CFTU-DT's studios are located on Rue Sainte-Catherine East and Rue Pathenais in Downtown Montreal, and its transmitter is located at Pavillon Roger-Gaudry on the campus of Université de Montréal.
==History==
CFTU's history traces back to 1981, when a distance learning organization known as Télé-Université (the "TU" in the station's callsign) negotiated with Vidéotron, the local cable provider in Montreal, to take responsibility for running an educational television service in the province. The following year, an agreement between Télé-Université and Vidéotron was reached, subsequently leading to the startup of a publicly accessible educational cable television service, using Télé-Québec as its over-the-air gateway for its programming. In the next three years, 13 other educational institutions around Quebec, starting with the Université de Montréal, joined up with Télé-Université to provide administrative and technical support for the new television service. The institutions formed a new consortium, known as the Corporation pour l'Avancement des Nouvelles Applications des Langages (or "CANAL" for short), to co-ordinate the educational television service and prepare it to begin broadcasting over-the-air.
After over a year of test transmissions on channel 62, Télé-Université officially launched its over-the-air service, CFTU-TV on UHF channel 29, on August 20, 1986. On cable television in Montreal, it was carried on channel 26 on the West Island and 47 in the east, and was the first over-the-air television station in Canada to be given a cable assignment outside the basic band (channels 2–13) of the dial. CFTU launched under the brand name of Canal de Télé-enseignement (The Learning Channel), and later changed its branding to Canal Savoir in 1997 and then Savoir média in 2019.
Category:Independent television stations
Category:Montreal
Category:Quebec
Category:Channel 29
Category:Canada
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1986