Executive Vice-President,
French Services
Montreal
Louis Lalande
Executive Vice-President, French Services
Montreal
Louis Lalande was appointed Executive Vice-President of CBC/Radio-Canada French Services on January 16, 2012, after holding the position on an interim basis since September 26, 2011.
Mr. Lalande oversees all aspects of CBC/Radio-Canada’s French-language programming services, which include, among other things, Télévision de Radio-Canada, Réseau de l’information de Radio-Canada (RDI), ARTV, Radio de Radio-Canada, RCI, Radio-Canada.ca, Espace.mu and Tou.Tv.
Mr. Lalande has been in the news business for 25 years, mainly at Radio-Canada. Before joining CBC/Radio-Canada’s Senior Executive Team, he was Executive Director of Regional Services, which comprises television, radio and web services. Prior to that, he helped establish the Centre de l’information de Radio-Canada in Montreal where he was the News and Current Affairs Director for Télévision de Radio-Canada and RDI for more than two years, after having been Executive Director of Technical Production. Mr. Lalande stopped working for the national public broadcaster for a few years, during which he notably created LCN, TVA’s all-news television channel.
