About TVCB

TVCB

Overview

TVCB — Télévision communautaire de Beauceville — is the community television service of Beauceville, a town in the Beauce region of Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec. Beauceville sits on the Chaudière River in the Beauce, the farming and small-manufacturing country southeast of Quebec City, and it is the town's own institutions — its council, its community organizations, its festivals and its musicians — that fill TVCB's schedule. It is an independent, non-profit community broadcaster that produces local French-language programming about Beauceville's municipal life, community organizations, culture and people, and distributes it on the town's cable networks and as online video through its website, tvcb.ca.

In the tradition of Quebec's autonomous community televisions, TVCB exists to cover what no other television service covers: the meetings of Beauceville's municipal council, the press conferences and activities of local organizations, community celebrations and the region's musicians and interviewees. Its website publishes complete programmes as dated video posts, and in September 2026 those posts were appearing several times a week — evidence of a small broadcaster in active, current production.

History

According to Vidéotron's own channel description, the Beauceville community television organization is a non-profit founded in Beauceville in 1974. That date places TVCB in the first generation of Quebec community television, which grew up in the 1970s as cable systems spread through the province's towns and the community channel became the local screen of record. The organization's legal and operating name appears in Quebec business and community listings as Câble communautaire de Beauce, based on 9e Avenue in Beauceville, and the listings record the organization as active.

Over five decades, TVCB's continuity has rested on the model typical of autonomous community televisions in Quebec: a local non-profit organization, rooted in its town, producing original programming with a small core of staff and community participation, and carried as the community channel on the cable systems serving its territory. The arrival of web video changed the channel's distribution without changing its mandate — programmes that once existed only on the cable schedule are now published on tvcb.ca, where a dated archive of recent broadcasts documents the organization's ongoing activity, including regular coverage through 2026.

TVCB belongs to the wider family of Quebec's télévisions communautaires autonomes — independent, non-profit local broadcasters that the Fédération des télévisions communautaires autonomes du Québec describes as democratic, open and accessible tools of local information, socio-economic animation and public awareness. The federation counts 43 such stations across the province and, in its published material, credits the sector collectively with serving some 530 municipalities and producing more than 200 hours of original programming a week, with hundreds of volunteers involved. It also makes the point that defines stations like TVCB: in many communities they are the only television service covering local events at all, and their programming gives airtime to ordinary citizens who rarely appear in mass media. A June 2024 federation communiqué underlined that these stations make their content available free of charge, including online — exactly the distribution model visible on tvcb.ca.

Programming and Content

Vidéotron's description of the channel credits TVCB with producing seven hours of television programming per week, retransmitted on the cable networks of Beauceville. The programmes themselves, as published on tvcb.ca, fall into recognizable community-television strands.

Municipal and civic coverage is the backbone. TVCB records and publishes Beauceville's municipal council meetings — the council meeting of 8 September 2026 was posted on 10 September 2026 — along with municipal press conferences and public announcements, such as the September 2026 press conference for "Le jardin de Pirouette et Cabriole" and the mid-campaign report "Bilan de mi-campagne" with Philippe Simard, published on 21 September 2026. La vie communautaire ("Community life"), whose September 2026 edition was also published on 21 September 2026, is the channel's magazine of local organizations and events.

Interview and culture strands complete the slate. Pour en savoir plus ("To learn more") is an interview series — the episode with Éric Gagnon Poulin was published on 14 September 2026 — and Mardis en musique ("Tuesdays in music") presents local musical performances, with episodes 3 and 4 of its 2026 run published on 9 September 2026. Taken together, the published output shows a weekly rhythm of council business, community announcements, interviews and music, all produced in Beauceville, in French, for Beauceville.

In practice, the channel also works as the town's video noticeboard. When a Beauceville organization holds a press conference — as the group behind "Le jardin de Pirouette et Cabriole" did in September 2026 — TVCB records it and publishes it in full, giving local announcements a permanence and reach that a meeting room cannot. The same applies to its municipal coverage: residents who cannot attend a council sitting in person can watch the complete meeting afterwards, at any hour, on the website. That archival function is a large part of what a community channel is for, and TVCB's dated archive shows it being exercised week after week.

Audience and Reach

TVCB's audience is, in the first instance, the population of Beauceville and its surroundings in the Beauce — the households served by the town's cable networks, where the channel is a hyper-local service devoted to a single community. Its online publication extends that reach: anyone can watch its programmes on tvcb.ca, which gives former residents, the wider Beauce diaspora and neighbouring communities access to Beauceville's council meetings and community programming.

The channel is carried on both cable systems that serve the town. Beauceville's own municipal emergency documentation lists "TVCB — Télévision communautaire de Beauceville" at channel 2 on Sogetel and channel 11 on Vidéotron. That listing is a telling detail: the town counts its community channel among the local communications resources in its emergency planning, which reflects the civic role TVCB plays in Beauceville beyond entertainment — it is one of the channels through which municipal information reaches residents. No audience ratings are published for TVCB, and the organization does not publish viewing figures; its reach is defined by its territory — a town of the Beauce and the online audience its website draws — rather than by measured audience data.

Digital Presence

TVCB's digital presence is its website, tvcb.ca, which functions as the channel's on-demand archive and public face. The site is organized as a dated video journal: each programme is posted in full with its title and publication date, and the September 2026 posts — council coverage on 10 September, an interview episode on 14 September, and the community magazine, a press conference and a political report on 21 September — show a publication cadence of several programmes per week. For a community television organization founded in the cable era, the website has become the most visible part of the service: it is where residents who miss a broadcast, and viewers outside the cable territory, encounter TVCB's programming.

Ownership and Organisation

TVCB is owned and operated by its local non-profit organization — the organism described by Vidéotron as a non-profit founded in Beauceville in 1974, and listed in Quebec directories as Câble communautaire de Beauce. It is an autonomous community television: it is not part of a broadcasting group or a cable company's in-house services, but an independent local organization whose programming is produced for the community it serves. This distinguishes TVCB from community channels operated directly by cable companies; its accountability is to Beauceville itself. Business listings give the organization's base as 595, 9e Avenue in Beauceville, with the telephone number 418-774-2322, and record its status as active.

Contact and Availability

Viewers in Beauceville can watch TVCB on cable at channel 2 on Sogetel and channel 11 on Vidéotron. Its programmes are freely available online at tvcb.ca, where the current schedule of council meetings, community magazines, interviews and music programmes is published as dated video posts. The organization can be reached through its website, and Quebec business listings give its address as 595, 9e Avenue, Beauceville, Quebec, and its telephone number as 418-774-2322.