TORONTO — The Minister of Canadian Heritage, which oversee the nation’s public broadcasting giant known as the CBC, has appointed the President/CEO of TV 5 Québec as the next head of CBC/Radio-Canada. She will serve a five-year term.
This puts Marie-Phillipe Bouchard in a role she will begin on January 3, and her appointment is a result of “a rigorous, open, transparent and merit-based selection process led by the Independent Advisory Committee for Appointments to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors convened in March 2024.
Bouchard has led TV5 Québec Canada since February 2016 and for the last four years has also presided over TV5 Numérique, TV5MONDE’s partner in establishing the international French-language platform TV5MONDEPlus. TV5MONDE is one of France’s biggest public media entities.
Prior to joining TV5 Québec Canada, Bouchard held key management and senior executive positions at CBC/Radio-Canada — specifically in legal services, strategic planning and regulatory affairs, information and digital services, and music.
Bouchard is the first Francophone woman to serve in the top position for Canada’s national public broadcaster. She commented, “Public service media all around the world serve as a precious public asset. As society changes at a fast pace, so must our public broadcaster, continuing to build trust in order to remain relevant to all Canadians. With my experience serving audiences both at TV5/Unis TV and CBC/Radio-Canada, I look forward to this challenge and to working together with all Canadians, including the CBC/Radio-Canada team, Canadian content creators and other partners, to chart the path forward. Our national public broadcaster brings us and our understanding of one another closer together despite massive distance. CBC/Radio-Canada is our place for discovering and sharing stories that embody Francophone, Anglophone and Indigenous cultures, on a range of innovative platforms. Our national broadcaster provides us with trustworthy news and information, highlights our creativity and offers us perspectives that enrich our lives, right here in this place we call home.”
