About TV Rogers Moncton

TV Rogers Moncton

Overview

TV Rogers Moncton is the French-language community television channel serving Moncton, New Brunswick, on Rogers' cable network, where it occupies channel 9, alongside the separate English-language Rogers TV Moncton on channel 10. It is the Moncton station of TV Rogers, the French-language counterpart to Rogers TV, whose five stations are in Ottawa and in New Brunswick's francophone regions. Moncton is one of only two markets — the other is Ottawa — where Rogers is authorized to operate separate French- and English-language community channels, an arrangement in place since 2004 and expressly maintained by the CRTC as a matter of public interest under the Official Languages Act. For the francophone and Acadian audience of the Moncton area — one of the largest French-speaking communities in Atlantic Canada, in a city that is officially bilingual — the channel provides a local television service in French: a mix of programming produced by Rogers staff and access programming made by members of the public, spanning public affairs, sports, entertainment, election coverage, telethons, municipal affairs, documentaries and specials.

History

Community television in New Brunswick began with Fundy Cable, which started setting up community channels in Saint John and Edmundston in the early 1970s. In the late 1990s Fundy united the province's local community channels into TVNB, a provincial programming network whose master control was located in Moncton and which provided two provincial feeds — one English and one French — of community programs produced around New Brunswick, with local inserts for content such as TV bingo, high school sports and city councils. Moncton, with its large bilingual population, was among the communities where both the English and the French TVNB services could be seen, on two separate channels. Shaw Cable acquired the New Brunswick cable licences from Fundy Cable in 1998, and in the Rogers–Shaw asset exchange of 2000 the province's systems passed to Rogers; the stations were rebranded to Rogers Television in February 2002.

TV Rogers as a French-language service traces its origins to 1968, the year community programming began on Rogers' Ottawa system, and it was known for many years as Télévision Rogers before the shorter name was adopted. The French channel in Moncton took its distinct regulatory shape soon after the New Brunswick rebrand: the authorization for Rogers to provide separate French- and English-language community channels in Ottawa and Moncton dates to 2004. In April 2008 the service was renamed Rogers TV in English and TV Rogers in French, and in 2016 the channels were relaunched with a new look. When the CRTC renewed Rogers' distribution licences in Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2018-265, it specifically continued the Moncton and Ottawa two-channel arrangement as an exception to the Community Television Policy, finding it in the public interest and consistent with the objectives of the Official Languages Act, and noting that the amounts directed to each channel, while lower than a single-channel comparator, sustained services in both languages.

Programming and Content

TV Rogers Moncton's schedule is drawn from the French-language community programming produced across Rogers' New Brunswick system and shared among its four francophone stations — Moncton, Bathurst, Edmundston and the Acadian Peninsula — together with access productions from the Moncton area itself. Documented successes of the New Brunswick French service include Acadieman, described as the world's first animated Acadian superhero, and 2 Bon'Heures, the region's only early-morning French-language studio talk show. The Université de Moncton's Shippagan campus produced Ton université, an eight-part weekly interview series of roughly thirty minutes an episode, hosted by Vanessa Haché and built around interviews with professors and service heads, showcasing the campus's programs and services; it was carried on TV Rogers' French-language New Brunswick stations, with Moncton on cable 9 and the Acadian Peninsula on cable 10. Schedules published for the sister Bathurst francophone station in April 2026 show the shared French service carrying series such as Les verbomoteurs, a weekly magazine taking a Christian perspective on the week's political, religious and cultural news, and La famille LeBlanc, in which the LeBlanc family performs nineteenth-century airs rooted in Celtic and Acadian traditions. The broader TV Rogers and Rogers TV slate visible on the network's site today includes provincial public affairs such as the 2026 New Brunswick State of the Province Address and NB Municipal Vote 2026, the Rogers tv Community News program, Atlantic Spotlight, the East Coast Music Awards gala and its artist spotlights, and French-language series carried on the francophone service such as Les TRIPeuses trotteuses, Être soi and Chouettes créations francophones. Sports coverage, live bingo, telethons and council and election programming — staples of the New Brunswick community channels since the TVNB era — round out the mix of staff-produced and public access content.

Audience and Reach

TV Rogers Moncton is available only to subscribers of Rogers' cable service in the Moncton area, on channel 9 (Rogers' Moncton starter lineup also lists the channel in its high-definition block at channel 600). Its audience is the francophone and bilingual population of Greater Moncton — Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview — the largest urban concentration of Acadians in New Brunswick, for whom the channel is one of very few local television outlets broadcasting in French, alongside national French services. The channel's separate existence, funded as its own service under the conditions of licence maintained by the CRTC, reflects that linguistic mandate. No ratings or subscriber figures for the Moncton channel itself are published, and none are claimed here.

Digital Presence

The channel's digital home is its station page on the TV Rogers website, tvrogers.com/moncton-fr, which presents the station in French — "Émissions – tv Rogers Moncton (Français)" — with its show listings, what is on now, its program schedule, on-demand material and a local events section through which community groups can publicize Moncton-area events ("Annoncez votre événement sur notre page d'événements locaux"). The page is live and maintained with the network's current provincial slate, including 2025 and 2026 programming entries. TV Rogers stations share the tvrogers.com platform, so Moncton's French page sits alongside those of Bathurst, Edmundston, the Acadian Peninsula and Ottawa.

Ownership and Organisation

The channel is owned and operated by Rogers Communications as part of TV Rogers, the French-language sister service to Rogers TV. It is legally distinct from the English-language Rogers TV Moncton: since 2004 Rogers has held authorization, as a condition of its licences, to direct contributions to each of the two Moncton community channels separately, an exception to the Community Television Policy and the Regulations that the CRTC again approved in Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2018-265. Production is organized on a provincial basis in New Brunswick, where Rogers operates nine distinct community channels — five in English and four in French — with programming produced by Rogers staff and by community access producers and volunteers, some of it shared across the francophone stations and some made locally in Moncton.

Contact and Availability

TV Rogers Moncton can be found on Rogers cable channel 9 in the Moncton area (channel 600 in high definition), and online through its French-language station page at tvrogers.com/moncton-fr, where viewers can browse its shows and schedules and community groups can announce local events. Francophone residents and organizations interested in proposing programming deal with the channel through TV Rogers' community access process via the station page. The channel is not available through other television service providers, and it should not be confused with the separate English-language Rogers TV Moncton on channel 10.