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One Ton (stylised as Ōne Tōn) was a Canadian dance music group, active in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Incorporating world music influences such as reggae and flamenco , the band released two albums and garnered a Juno Award nomination for New Group of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2003 .

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39-518: Initially consisting of Byron Mikaloff, Cristobal Tapia de Veer , Kyle Girgan and Billy Martin, the group was formed in Quebec City in 1997 as The Blokes . They released one album, The Blokes' Greatest Hits , under that band name. After Girgan and Martin left the band, Mikaloff and Tapia de Veer added new musicians Zita Laverdière, Saïmon and DJ Nerve, changing their name to One Ton. They released their debut album under their new name, Beginning of

78-869: A Primetime Emmy Award the following year. He also scored the Season 4 episode of Netflix 's series Black Mirror entitled " Black Museum ". SOCAN awarded him with the SOCAN International Achievement Award in fall 2017, marking the first time that a composer for film and television has been awarded the prize. In 2018, the Canneseries festival invited Tapia de Veer to be part of the jury for its first season, alongside Michael Kenneth Williams , German actress Paula Beer , Melisa Sozen , French screenwriter and director Audrey Fouché, and Harlan Coben . He then scored his second feature film, Advantages of Travelling by Train ,

117-638: A sketch comedy special satirizing news stories and events from the past year (comparable to the Royal Canadian Air Farce New Year's Eve specials formerly shown by the English-language CBC Television). In recent years it has become the most-watched program of the year on Quebecois television; the 2021 edition of Bye Bye was the most-watched program in Quebecois television history, and four out of

156-514: A 2019 adaptation of Antonio Orejudo 's novel of the same name, directed by Aritz Moreno and produced by Morena Films in Spain, starring Luis Tosar , Pilar Castro , and Javier Botet . The film competed in major film festivals such as Sitges , Tokyo , and Brussels Film Festival (BRFF) , and was awarded "Best Comedy" at the Goya Awards in 2020. Tapia de Veer's music for the film earned him

195-525: A New Race , in 1999. In 2000, Laverdière sang vocals on Les Respectables ' hit single "Amalgame". As a trio consisting of Mikaloff, Tapia de Veer and Laverdière, One Ton's second album Abnormal Pleasures followed in 2002. The album spawned the single "Supersexworld", which reached the top 10 on the Canadian charts. In addition to their Juno Award nomination, the band also garnered a Félix Award nomination for Best Non-French Album, and "Supersexworld" won

234-723: A hold on his classical career. The trio won the Canadian Dance Music Award (SOCAN) in 2003 with the electro-dance single "Supersex World". Tapia de Veer produced the album. In 2011, his music for the Victorian four-part drama The Crimson Petal and the White (directed by Marc Munden , BBC2 ) was well received by critics. Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe , said: "The soundtrack ranges from gnawing electronic hums to choral ecstasy. It's all brilliantly, effectively, appropriately jarring". He went on to compose

273-569: A nomination at Spain's Premios Feroz . Releases in 2020 include the series Hunters for Amazon Prime and the drama The Third Day for HBO / SKY . In 2021, he scored the HBO limited series The White Lotus , for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards ( one for the main title music, and the other for his work scoring the series) and a Society of Composers & Lyricists Award. He also received his 2nd BAFTA nomination for his music to The Third Day . The following year, he scored

312-411: A soundtrack album to be released. Due to Tapia de Veer's heavily charged schedule, he was not able to work on the second season. In the same year Amazon Prime offered Tapia de Veer to work on two episodes of the anthology series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams . He worked on HUMAN IS , starring Bryan Cranston as well as CRAZY DIAMOND , starring Steve Buscemi , for which he got a nomination for

351-406: A total of 27 digital transmitters. For most of its history, the network was branded as Radio-Canada. In television listings such as TV Guide or TV Hebdo , where space limitations usually require television networks to be referred to by a three-letter abbreviation; while its full name was previously Télévision de Radio-Canada , the network was normally coded as SRC (for Société Radio-Canada,

390-560: A week. Investigative reporting is broadcast weekly as Enquête . In 2008, the program tested the safety levels of Tasers in the wake of concerns raised after a Polish immigrant died after RCMP police officers fired a Taser in Vancouver International Airport . Other shows such as Découverte raised concerns about the safety of overhead bridges in Montreal after the collapse of a bridge in 2007. There

429-623: Is a long-running talk show imported from the same show of the same name in France and has featured high-profile guests, such as Julie Couillard and former Action démocratique du Québec leader Mario Dumont . A weekly music show called Studio 12 appears on Sundays. Although the bulk of the prime-time schedule is Quebec-produced, a few dubbed shows from the US have also aired in prime-time, such as Perdus , Beautées désepérées , and Chère Betty . On New Year's Eve, Radio-Canada presents Bye Bye ,

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468-698: Is also weekly programming on political affairs concerning the National Assembly of Quebec and the House of Commons of Canada with Les coulisses du pouvoir (The Corridors of Power). Science and technology issues are covered in Découverte and agricultural and rural topics in La semaine verte . Consumer affairs are covered in L'épicerie and Facture . From 1952 to 2004, the network was home to weekly French-language broadcasts of ice hockey matches involving

507-575: Is available through both pay television services, and through ATSC digital terrestrial television on the following channels: On September 10, 2007, the network (as well as sister cable news network RDI ) began broadcasting all programming solely in the 16:9 aspect ratio with few exceptions, and began letterboxing its widescreen feed for standard definition viewers. Certain shows such as Virginie and Le Téléjournal are carried on international francophone channels TV5Monde . As with CBC Television , Ici Télé stations can be viewed over-the-air in

546-633: Is best known for his score of the British TV series Utopia , for which he won a Royal Television Society award in the best original score category in 2013, and Channel 4 's National Treasure , which earned him a BAFTA in 2017. He has received awards from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada in 2013 and 2017. Tapia de Veer was born during the 1973 military coup d'état in Chile . His parents fled to Paris, France . After

585-472: Is considered more popular than CBC Television. It does not face such intense competition from American networks. Despite this, it has trailed TVA in the ratings for most of the last 30 years, roughly as long as its English counterpart has trailed CTV . Its ratings have improved with offbeat sitcoms , and the talk show Tout le monde en parle . With this success, however, have come accusations of dumbing down . For instance, Tout le monde en parle replaced

624-520: Is envisaged that regional news programming may be merged in the regions outside Quebec. Radio-Canada once operated an extensive network of rebroadcasters, but they were closed by 2012. SRC converted its originating station transmitters to digital as part of the digital transition deadline in mandatory markets, which took place on August 31, 2011. On July 31, 2012, all of the corporation's 620 analogue television transmitters were permanently shut down, leaving CBC's English and French television network with

663-536: The Empire Club of Canada that the corporation is facing a budget shortfall and as a result some services may be forced to close down and/or stations merged or sold off, saying: "La crise économique nous force à revoir toutes les facettes de nos activités." ("The economic crisis forced us to review all facets of our activities.") It is not yet clear how the announcement will affect stations owned by either CBC Television or Télévision de Radio-Canada, however it

702-534: The Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer , France, in 2017. Paramount Pictures used his opening theme, GIFTED , for the final trailer of the 2019 remake of Pet Sematary and Focus Home Interactive for their videogame Call of Cthulhu . Tapia de Veer was unable to score the following season of Humans , because he teamed up with Marc Munden again, to work on National Treasure , Channel 4's four-part drama inspired by Operation Yewtree ,

741-554: The Montreal Canadiens , called La Soirée du hockey . The show was discontinued when broadcast rights reverted to RDS . Viewers outside Quebec were able to continue watching games via Radio-Canada stations until 2006 when RDS became exclusive broadcasters. Radio-Canada was also the home of the Montreal Alouettes before moving to RDS. It was also home for many years to French-language television broadcasts of

780-873: The Montreal Expos . After briefly losing the rights to V and RDS as part of the CTV/Rogers consortium , CBC/Radio-Canada re-gained rights to the Olympic Games in 2014, with Radio-Canada as main French-language broadcaster. The CBC's rights have since been renewed through 2024 . The most popular entertainment shows on the network are variety shows such as Tout le monde en parle and M pour musique , sketch shows like Les invincibles and Et Dieu créa... Laflaque and dramas such as Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin , Virginie and Tout sur moi . Tout le monde en parle in particular

819-617: The SOCAN award for Best Dance Song. The band did not record or release another album after Abnormal Pleasures . Mikaloff went on to the projects Bunka Busta and The Lost Fingers , while Tapia de Veer became a composer for film and television . Laverdière left the music business. Cristobal Tapia de Veer Juan Cristóbal Tapia de Veer is a Chilean-born Canadian film and television score composer , arranger , producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Montreal , Quebec , Canada. He

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858-502: The French language corporate name of the CBC as a whole). While the network experimented with using SRC as its on-air brand in the 1990s, within a few months it reverted to using "Radio-Canada" for nearly all verbal references. The experiment ended later in the decade. In 2009 Radio-Canada refreshed its branding featuring the word "Télévision" underneath the corporate logo; in promos, it features

897-519: The coup, his father remained in France, and his mother took him back to Chile. Life under Pinochet 's dictatorship still proved difficult, so they became political refugees in Quebec , Canada . Tapia de Veer earned a master's degree in classical music (specializing in percussion) from the Conservatoire de musique du Québec . In 2001 he signed to Warner Music with his pop band One Ton, putting

936-465: The day in a pattern with no preemptions. The only exceptions are for local and regional programming and commercials. In 2007, Radio-Canada announced its intention to terminate its long-time affiliation with three regional affiliates in Sherbrooke , Trois-Rivières , and Saguenay . These stations were owned by Cogeco , at the time a majority owner of commercial rival TQS (now Noovo ). By the end of

975-399: The logo, without any wording or slogans. On June 5, 2013, it was announced that as part of an overall effort to unify the CBC's French-language platforms and outlets under a common name, Télévision de Radio-Canada was to be renamed Ici Télé on September 9, 2013—a nod to its longtime system cue dating back to the 1930s on radio, Ici Radio-Canada (This is Radio-Canada). The re-branding

1014-467: The long-running Sunday night arts series Les Beaux Dimanches . News programming is anchored by Le Téléjournal , which airs nightly at 10:00 p.m. Local newscasts, which air during the lunch and supper hours, now also carry the Téléjournal name, i.e., Le Téléjournal Montréal . The regional newscasts used to be called Ce Soir (This Evening) . All Radio-Canada newscasts are broadcast under

1053-518: The music for the Channel 4 conspiracy thriller Utopia (created by Dennis Kelly ) for which he won a Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award for "best original music" in November 2013. The judges stated his "work blurred the lines between sound design and score, creating a soundtrack that the jury said felt like it was being played inside your head". Up again for an RTS Award in 2014,

1092-703: The music for the second series won the Music & Sound Award in 2015 in the Best Original TV Score category. His work on Utopia was nominated for Televisual Magazine's Bulldog Award for best music and subsequently released on yellow and green vinyl. In early 2014, Tapia de Veer completed the music for the TV-show Série noire , which aired on ICI-Radio-Canada Télé . The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television awarded him with two Prix Gémeaux for best Original Music and Best Musical Theme

1131-472: The name Le Téléjournal . The main evening broadcast airs most nights at 10:00 p.m. local time (11:00 p.m. in the Maritimes ). Le Téléjournal is also seen live and as a repeat broadcast on a sister cable news channel RDI and on time-delay worldwide via an international francophone channel TV5 . There are no morning newscasts. Local and regional news also takes the Téléjournal name followed by

1170-489: The name of a city, region, or province, or by the time of day (for example Le Téléjournal Montréal , Le Téléjournal Midi , etc.) CBVT-DT Quebec City , CBLFT-DT Toronto and CBOFT-DT Ottawa , and CBAFT-DT in the Atlantic provinces run local midday bulletins. In contrast, all affiliates run supper-hour bulletins which run from Monday to Fridays, except for CBVT-DT , CBOFT-DT and CBAFT-DT , which run seven days

1209-559: The national public broadcaster . Its English-language counterpart is CBC Television . Its headquarters are at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal , which is also home to the network's flagship station, CBFT-DT , as well as the master control facilities of all of its owned-and-operated stations nationwide. Until the 2012 closedown of the CBC / Radio-Canada rebroadcaster network , it was the only francophone network in Canada to broadcast terrestrially in all Canadian provinces. This network

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1248-547: The police investigation into the sexual abuse perpetrated by Jimmy Savile and allegations against other media personalities. The series won a BAFTA and a FIPA D'OR at the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels in Biarritz, France, for Tapia de Veer's original score. BBC America 's series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency found a dedicated fanbase in 2016, which is still waiting for

1287-623: The same year and again in 2016 for the second season. He also finished the works on BBC's Jamaica Inn , directed by Phillipa Lowthorpe. Tapia de Veer then wrote the music for the first season of AMC 's / Channel 4 's co-production Humans . In 2016, he scored his first feature film, The Girl with All the Gifts , which opened the Locarno Film Festival . His music won in the Best Original Music category at

1326-552: The supernatural horror film Smile , directed by Parker Finn. He also scored the second season of The White Lotus in collaboration with Kim Neundorf. Radio-Canada Television Ici Radio-Canada Télé (stylized as ICI Radio-Canada Télé , and sometimes abbreviated as Ici Télé ) is a Canadian French-language free-to-air television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada [SRC]),

1365-675: The top five overall were editions of Bye Bye . Non-news regional programming is usually programmed for broadcast on weekends. It is limited to arts and culture and typically airs outside Quebec, especially in Atlantic Canada and Western Canada . For example, Zeste broadcasts on stations in Western Canada on Saturday early evenings, while Luc et Luc airs on Sunday evenings in Atlantic Canada. Of Canada's three major French-language television networks, Radio-Canada

1404-619: The year, TQS had filed for bankruptcy; as part of exiting bankruptcy, a deal was announced the following spring for Radio-Canada to directly acquire the stations. The transaction was approved by the CRTC on June 26, 2008. Only the stations in Rouyn-Noranda ( CKRN-DT , which closed in 2018) and Rivière-du-Loup ( CKRT-DT , which closed in 2021) remained as private affiliates, rather than owned-and-operated stations . On February 27, 2009, CBC/Radio-Canada President Hubert Lacroix admitted at

1443-690: Was panned by critics and politicians, who felt that the new brand was too confusing, and criticized the CBC's plans to downplay the historic "Radio-Canada" name as a viewer-facing brand, along with the reported $ 400,000 cost of the new campaign in the midst of budget cuts. In response to the criticism, Hubert Lacroix announced a compromise, where the Radio-Canada name would be added to the revised branding, resulting in Ici Radio-Canada Télé as its official name. The ombudsman of Radio-Canada has been Pierre Tourangeau since July 2011. He

1482-448: Was preceded by Julie Miville-Dechêne (2007–2011) Renaud Gilbert (2000–2007), Marcel Pépin (1997–1999), Mario Cardinal (1993–1997) and Bruno Gauron (1992). On March 5, 2005, Télévision de Radio-Canada launched an HD simulcast of its Montreal station CBFT-DT . Since that time they have also launched HD simulcasts in Quebec City ( CBVT-DT ), Ottawa ( CBOFT-DT ), Toronto ( CBLFT-DT ) and Vancouver ( CBUFT-DT ). The HD feed

1521-610: Was the only one that, until 2012, broadcast terrestrially in all Canadian provinces. Except for Atlantic Canada , where a single station serves all four provinces, the network has at least one originating station in every province. These stations serve every major market in French and English Canada, with privately owned affiliates serving smaller markets in Quebec. Unlike CBC Television affiliates, which often had several alternative programming sources, Radio-Canada affiliates are effectively constrained to carry network programming throughout

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