May 2002

Gatineau Public Hearing

Transcript: Thursday, May 9, 2002:
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/transcripts/2002/tb0509a.htm
Transcript: Friday, May 10, 2002:
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/transcripts/2002/tb0510.htm

March 2002

March 18, 2002
Copps pushes multicultural channel: CRTC told to rethink ruling
The federal government has ordered Canada's broadcast regulator to reconsider its decision to deny an ethnic television channel a spot on the analogue dial.

July 2001

Hull Public Hearing 19 June 2001

Transcript:  Thursday 21 June 2001 (World Télémonde beginning at paragraph 475)
Transcript:  Friday 22 June 2001

June 2001

Thank you! We are grateful and appreciative to all those Canadians who took the time to support and endorse our proposed network offering the best of international and Canadian programming.

Although the deadline for the CRTC and us to receive formal letters of support has passed, we are still committed to keeping our potential viewing audience informed on our activities; so, please check back here for updates.

May 2001

The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will hear an application by the World Télémonde network (WTM), in Hull, Quebec, on Tuesday, June 19, 2001.

World Télémonde will be a unique national television service with modified dual carriage on Canadian cable and direct-to-home systems.

What does this mean to Canadians?

For the first time, all Canadians will have access to the world’s best in television in its original voices with state-of-the-art subtitles in English and/or French.

WTM is “the whole world of television” – global, entertaining, inclusive, direct, accessible and also uniquely Canadian.