1973: Kicking the Bucket
Without the financial support of the national broadcaster, the French stations on the prairies could not have survived. Undoubtedly influenced by the recent Official Languages Act, Radio-Canada reveals plans to establish its own French stations in the West. In Saskatchewan people know that CFRG and CFNS would not survive this. The management of the two stations decides that it would be better to sell their facilities and they begin negotiations with Radio-Canada. 
Raymond Marcotte is responsible for the talks, which go on for a year (audio).
Raymond Marcotte is responsible for the talks, which go on for a year (audio). The result of a year of negotiations is the sale in 1973 of the equipment of the two stations, which will be transferred to the new Radio-Canada studios in Regina. Those in charge of the two stations decide to set up the Fondation de la radio en Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan Radio Foundation) with the proceeds from the sale of their facilities. Raymond Marcotte tells the story (audio). Some Fransaskois felt that in selling their stations they were losing part of their identity (audio).
Archives: the sale of the stations to CBC
Roland Pinsonneault talks of the problems operating the two stations and about the sale of the stations to the CBC.
Raymond Marcotte talks about the transition from private french stations to CBC.
Jean-Jules Trudeau, who is in charge of planning at Radio-Canada, speaks to the main stakeholders in radio in Saskatchewan at the time of the signing of the contracts for the sale of the private stations CFGR and CFNS to CBCRadio-Canada. He comments on the remarkable work of those responsible for French radio in a province where the situation is complicated by the geographic dispersal of the Francophones.
Archives: the sale of the stations to CBC
Roland Pinsonneault talks of the problems operating the two stations and about the sale of the stations to the CBC.
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Raymond Marcotte talks about the transition from private french stations to CBC.
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Jean-Jules Trudeau, who is in charge of planning at Radio-Canada, speaks to the main stakeholders in radio in Saskatchewan at the time of the signing of the contracts for the sale of the private stations CFGR and CFNS to CBCRadio-Canada. He comments on the remarkable work of those responsible for French radio in a province where the situation is complicated by the geographic dispersal of the Francophones.
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