Pokémon in Canada
| Télétoon | |||
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| Headquarters | File:FlagCanada.PNG Canada | ||
| Launched | September 8, 1997 | ||
| Owned By | Astral Media (50%), Corus Entertainment (50%) | ||
Télétoon is a French-language cable TV channel available nationwide in Canada. It first hit the airwaves on September 8, 1997. Télétoon is based out of Montréal, Québec. The name is a combination of "télévision" and the English word "cartoon".
Teletoon is the English-language sister station of Télétoon. While the two channels largely air the same programming, recently Télétoon has begun to air several shows that Teletoon does not, including French-language dubs of shows that already air on other networks in English (such as The Simpsons and Naruto).
Provincial law in Québec prohibits paid advertisements during children's programming, so Télétoon does not air any commercials other than promos for themselves. This is not true for the channel's English-language counterpart, Teletoon, as it is based out of Toronto, Ontario.
Pokémon anime
A Canadian French dub of the Pokémon anime was recorded and produced in the province of Québec for exclusive airing on Télétoon. Like most dubs, the Canadian French dub is based on the English dub.
The anime formerly aired on Télétoon during the late 1990s and early 2000s, but has currently been removed from Télétoon's schedule. Despite this, the Pokémon movies are still occasionally aired. Alhough YTV continues to air the anime for Canadian audiences, Télétoon was given rights to air the French dubbed version due to the fact that French is an official language in Canada (along with English)[1]. There continues to be a demand for a French-language dub of Pokémon in Canada, as French is the first language of 7,370,355 Canadians, with 4,141,850 of those being able to speak no other languages[2].
Notes
External Links
- Official website
- YTV on Wikipedia
- The French-dubbed version of Viridian City, En route vers Jadielle, airing on Télétoon
