by RBR-TVBR
October 23, 2024
TORONTO — The Minister of Canadian Heritage, which oversee the nation’s public broadcasting giant known as the CBC, has appointed the President/CEO of TV 5 Québec as the next head of CBC/Radio-Canada. She will serve a five-year term.
This puts Marie-Phillipe Bouchard in a role she will begin on January 3, and her appointment is a result of “a rigorous, open, transparent and merit-based selection process led by the Independent Advisory Committee for Appointments to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors convened in March 2024.
Bouchard has led TV5 Québec Canada since February 2016 and for the last four years has also presided over TV5 Numérique, TV5MONDE’s partner in establishing the international French-language platform TV5MONDEPlus. TV5MONDE is one of France’s biggest public media entities.
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