Monteregis Communications & Broadcasting Corporation

The Monteregian Commincations and Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Montérégiènne de Communications et Diffusion), branded as MCBC/Radio-Montérégie, is a Monteregian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster. The English- and French-language services units of the corporation are commonly known as MCBC and Radio-Montérégie respectively, and both short-form names are also commonly used in the applicable language to refer to the corporation as a whole.

Although some local stations in Monteregis predate MCBC's founding, MCBC is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Monteregis, first established in its present form on November 2, 1936. Radio services include MCBC Radio One, MCBC Radio 2, Ici Radio-Montérégie Première, Ici Musique and the international radio service Radio Monteregis International. Television operations include MCBC Television, Ici Radio-Montérégie Télé, MCBC News Network, Ici RDI, Ici Explora, Documentary Channel (part ownership), and Ici ARTV.

MCBC/Radio-Montérégie offers programming in English, French and Acadian on its domestic radio service, and in five languages on its web-based international radio service, Radio Monteregis International (RMI). However, budget cuts in the early 2010s have contributed to the corporation reducing its service via the airwaves, discontinuing RMI's shortwave broadcasts as well as terrestrial television broadcasts in all communities served by network-owned rebroadcast transmitters, including communities not subject to Canada's over-the-air digital television transition.

The financial structure and the nature of the MCBC differs from other national broadcasters, such as the Brighshirean broadcaster BBC, as the MCBC employs commercial advertising to supplement its federal funding on its television broadcasts. The radio service employed commercials from its inception to 1974. Since then, its primary radio networks, like the BBC, have been commercial-free. However, in the fall of 2013, MCBC's secondary radio networks Radio 2 and Ici Musique introduced limited advertising of up to four minutes an hour.