Peut-etre.

I also noticed an increase in ads, especially for the Liberals, on local radio, after going months without hearing any from all the parties. Perhaps they saved their money for the home stretch. 

I won't be watching. I am taking my sister to the Yonge/Eglinton Keg tonight to celebrate her birthday. I would be more interested in watching the Habs [hopefully] lose.

I tried to watch some of it. But the only thing worse than all of them talking over each other constantly, is all of them talking over each other in a different language. I hope the English one is better - but I'm not counting on it. 

Surprised that CTV News Channel is not carrying this, I kinda feel they should. CBCNN seems to be the only place I can find it,  given my cable package.

The volume level of the candidates is mercifully low, making it much easier to hear the English VO without being derailed by the candidates speaking in French.

EDIT: I found a French only on APTN.

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RadioActive wrote:

I tried to watch some of it. But the only thing worse than all of them talking over each other constantly, is all of them talking over each other in a different language. I hope the English one is better - but I'm not counting on it. 

Actually I was impressed that they almost never talked over each other, so I don't know what RA is talking about.  I liked the moderator, no nonsense and made the four stick to the topic. The translation mix was perfect with low levels for the french dialogue, loud and clear hearing the translation, so it was easy to follow.

Generally I thought the french debate was well done and I liked the way that they had Canadians commenting on topics from all over the country and not just Quebec.  

One thing that was interesting was the fact on my Bell Fibe trending feature, the debate was #1 from 6pm to 7pm on CBC News Network, and that is rare.  Somewhat disappointed that CTV News Channel didn't really cover the debate, but they did carry segments and dropped in commentary which was a bit disjointed.

A far more professional and worthwhile debate to watch than what we saw last fall with Mr. Trump and Biden.  Looking forward to the english debate tomorrow.

 

I have never watched a debate where there wasn't some overlap but this one had very little and I watched the first hour.  I didn't intend to give the debate so much time but I found it interesting, good content and well done.

Also when the Montreal/Carolina game came on at 7pm, the debate on CBC News Network was still the second most viewed program for the second hour on Bell Fibe, so that is really remarkable. 

Rebel News took over the Q & A after the debate

CBLFT hasn't been used on air as the call letters for decades.  Radio-Canada is on channel 1101 on Bell Fibe.

paterson1 wrote:

CBLFT hasn't been used on air as the call letters for decades.  Radio-Canada is on channel 1101 on Bell Fibe.

Good to know, thanks. All the "basic cable" channels start at 1201, I never would've found it.

paterson1 wrote:

CBLFT hasn't been used on air as the call letters for decades.  Radio-Canada is on channel 1101 on Bell Fibe.

Most stations - with the exception of City - do not use their call letters. But that doesn't mean they're not there. CTV Toronto is still CFTO, Global's local signal remains CIII and the CBC has officially been CBLT since their Sept. 8, 1952 sign-on. 

As for it changing to CBLF, I haven't been able to find any confirmation of it. All the info I looked at still has it officially registered as CBLFT.

Not a big deal either way, but it does bring up a very interesting question - were the CBC French TV stations (which includes CBOFT in Ottawa and CBWFT in Winnipeg, among others) the only Canadian stations with five letters in their official calls? I can't recall any other situation like that in broadcasting in this country.

The call letters may still be technically there, but in many cases the station is not.  CBLFT as a station hasn't been around for decades.  On air branding has been Radio-Canada for a long time.  Same at CFTO, the call letters never appear anywhere either than on the stations license.  On air they are CTV and for news CTV Toronto.  You still see station call letters on some TV listings.  Oldsters like myself sometime still refer to CKCO in Kitchener but on air other than some retro special they are always CTV or CTV Kitchener. 

Back to the debate for a sec...

While watching CBCNN's post-debate coverage last night and Heather Hiscox this morning, I chuckled to myself because they were set up outside the Radio-Canada building. It's their own building, they couldn't find a corner somewhere inside for their Anglophone brethren?

RadioActive wrote:

Talk about lost in translation! The CBC is providing the English debate not just in French, but also Arabic, Punjabi, Tagalog, Chinese, Plains Cree, Ojibwe and for those in the far north, Inuktitut. And with all their endless talking points, it's still possible no one will have any idea what any of them said by the end of the night!

Follow the English-language leaders’ debate with live translation in 8 languages

Oh wow, I wonder how they can afford to do all that, oh wait….