You're right. I was confusing local programming with Quebec programming.
I've just come back from a tour of Quebec and I can tell you that there are a lot of half-baked arrangements in the various regions of Quebec, and the upshot is that the folks in the regions don't get any real local news. I was even told that for the Magdalen Islands, there's a weekly Radio-Canada quota of two news items. What on earth do they do when there are three!