ICI Musique Calgary and Edmonton

ICI Musique Calgary, heard on 89.7 FM, and Edmonton, heard on 101.1 FM under the call sign CBCX-FM, is the Alberta service of ICI Musique, the French-language music network of Radio-Canada. The schedule offers a varied mixture of classical, jazz, world, folk, chanson and contemporary music, with a strong place for French-language and Canadian artists, presented by hosts who introduce the music with knowledge and warmth. It provides an important cultural link for the Francophone communities of Western Canada.

Radio-Canada is the French-language service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, funded mainly by the federal government, and its music network carries no commercial advertising. Francophone minority communities outside Quebec depend on services like this one to keep French present in public life, and the online stream also reaches French speakers elsewhere in the world. The language is French, with Canadian accents, which makes it useful for learners who want to hear Canadian French in context. Some programmes may be restricted outside Canada because of rights. This stream is delivered as AAC at only 48 kbps, a low-bandwidth setting that uses very little data and starts quickly, though the sound is less detailed than on higher-bitrate streams. It plays in your browser on RadioKite, and you can add it to your favourites.