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Template:Infobox Broadcast CFTU, which uses the on-air brand Canal Savoir, is a Quebec-based commercial-free educational television channel owned by the Université de Montréal. It is available over the air on Channel 29 in Montreal; on cable through much of Quebec, parts of Ontario, New Brunswick, and western Canada; and on satellite (Bell ExpressVu Channel 152 and StarChoice Channel 720).

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History

CFTU's history starts in 1981, when an 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 TV service, using Radio-Québec as its over-the-air gateway for its programming.

In the next three years, thirteen 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 OTA service, CFTU-TV channel 29, on August 20, 1986. This station was the first OTA television station in Canada to appear on cable in the UHF region of the dial. CFTU launched under the name of "Canal Téléensignement", and changed its name to Canal Savoir in 1997.

Source: http://members.shaw.ca/nelsonmedia/Other/CFTU.htm

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