Météo+
| Météo+ | |
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| Genre | sitcom |
| Created by |
Robert Marinier Luc Thériault |
| Starring |
Martin Albert Stéphane Paquette René Lemieux Guy Mignault Micheline Marchildon Lina Blais |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 58 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Robert Charbonneau and Tracy Legault |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | TFO |
| Original release | February 14, 2008 – April 28, 2011 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Météo+ is a Canadian television sitcom which began airing on TFO, the French language public broadcaster in Ontario, on February 14, 2008.
Météo+ is a francophone television weather channel for the Northeastern Ontario region, launched by a local businessman in Sudbury. With its colourful crew, Météo+ goes above and beyond its mandate to offer weather forecasting to the francophone community.
The show is a comedic take on a genuine social and political issue. With almost 45,000 francophones living in the city, Sudbury has one of the largest francophone communities of any city in Canada outside of Quebec — this community is in fact significantly larger than some cities in Quebec which have their own television stations — and a further 133,000 live in the rest of Northeastern Ontario. Despite this, the region has no locally oriented francophone television service — at the time of the series' production, the region only had rebroadcast transmitters of Radio-Canada's Toronto affiliate (CBLFT-DT) and TFO, and as a result, francophone viewers had to rely on cable television services based in Montreal. (Since the 2012 closure of Radio-Canada and TFO's transmitters in the region, all francophone television is limited to cable and satellite.) In coverage of the initial program announcement, Charbonneau stated that many francophones in Sudbury and Northeastern Ontario really do believe that Montreal-based services such as RDI (EastLink, the cable provider in Sudbury, does not carry MétéoMédia) frequently get even current local weather conditions wrong.
Proposals to improve media service to francophones living outside of Quebec have been presented to the CRTC by groups as diverse as the Francophone Assembly of Ontario, Astral Media, TFO, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages.
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