Canal Savoir
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Montreal, Quebec Canada |
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| Branding | Canal Savoir |
| Channels |
Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 29.1 () |
| Affiliations | Independent |
| Owner | Canal Savoir |
| First air date | August 20, 1986 |
| Call letters' meaning | CF Télé Université |
| Former callsigns | CFTU-TV (1986–2012) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analogue: 29 (UHF), 1986–2012) |
| Transmitter power | 450 W |
| Height | 208.5 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°30′10″N 73°36′54″W / 45.50278°N 73.61500°W |
| Website | Canal Savoir (in French) |
CFTU-DT, UHF channel 29 (branded on-air as "Canal Savoir", the French translation for "Knowledge Channel"), is a Canadian French language educational independent television station located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The station is owned by CANAL (Corporation pour l'Avancement de Nouvelles Applications des Langages), a private consortium consisting primarily of Quebec-based post-secondary institutions. CFTU'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.
This station can also be seen on Vidéotron cable channel 22, Bell TV satellite channel 152 and Shaw Direct satellite channel 720. It is also available on cable through much of Quebec, and in parts of Ontario, New Brunswick and Western Canada.
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 Radio-Québec as its over-the-air gateway for its programming.
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