Société Radio-Canada

Société Radio-Canada, also known by the acronym SRC or as Ici Radio-Canada, is the French-language national public television and radio network in Canada. Its English equivalent is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC.

In the 1970s, Radio-Canada was known for the exceptional quality of its sports coverage, the result of significant investments linked to the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, QC. Its stable of highly knowledgeable and articulate broadcasters, coupled with first-class technicians, made it a reference throughout the world.

Until the creation of RDS in the early 1980s, Radio-Canada was the sole French-language television broadcaster of Montreal Expos games. Play-by-play announcers were Guy Ferron, succeeded by Raymond Lebrun, while analysts were former major league pitchers Jean-Pierre Roy and Claude Raymond. However by the early 1990s, SRC decided to reduce its sports footprint, considering it was not part of the core mandate of a public broadcaster, and its baseball broadcasts soon faded away to nothing.

While the Expos were a fixture on SRC television for two decades, the team's radio broadcasts were carried on a rival network, based around the privately-owned CKAC radio station in Montreal, QC.