Adequate public funding must also be assured. We must not think only about the CBC/SRC, but also about other educational broadcasters.

It will become impossible to make quality, educational or cultural television.

Important contributions are also made to news and information by the CBC, provincial educational broadcasters, not-for-profit services such as the cable public affairs channel CPAC and the aboriginal television network APTN, and community radio and television stations.

P. whereas ICT can be used in many ways in support of education in developing countries and as a way out of isolation (particularly thanks to satellite links) while more traditional ICT (radio and television) can lay claim to numerous successes in distance education at competitive costs,

In political and legal terms, the Council of Europe underlined the social and cultural importance of television (education, access to culture, free formation of opinions, democracy, promotion of rights and equality) in its 1989 Convention on Transfrontier Television.

Still with a view to offering a public service to the greatest possible number and taking into account the nature of the service offered and the importance of the public funds that are involved, Télé-Québec also considers that all broadcasting distribution enterprises, no matter the technology they use, should be under the obligation to offer cost-free to their subscribers, on their basic service, the signal from educational television broadcasters over the territory they serve (1015) Here, we're talking about educational television whose signal is received directly and whose operation depends on an educational authority appointed by the ...[+++] province.