V (TV Network) - Coverage

Coverage

Unlike TVA, V does not have mandatory cable carriage rights outside of Quebec, but may be offered at a cable company's discretion if there is a sufficient local market for French-language television programming. Consequently the network is not widely available outside of Quebec, although some communities in Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia receive V affiliates on cable.

CFGS in Gatineau is part of the Ottawa television market, and is carried in both analog and digital on cable systems in nearly all of Eastern Ontario. EastLink systems in Northeastern Ontario also carry V in both analog and digital. Rogers Cable systems in Central Ontario, Southwestern Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area offer CFGS on their digital tier. CFTF in Rivière-du-Loup has a rebroadcaster in Edmundston, New Brunswick--the network's only over-the-air transmitter outside of Quebec--and is carried in both analog and digital across most of northern New Brunswick.

To ensure that the network's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics reached the vast majority of Canada's francophones, the network was simulcast on CPAC, which has mandatory carriage on the basic service of all Canadian cable and satellite providers, from February 12 to 28, 2010.