That’s an interesting question.
From the beginning, the spectre of the 65% quota has been highlighted. In fact, it’s 65% during the week and 55% during prime time. There’s also a feature called montages. The quotas are calculated based on the number of musical pieces that are broadcast. If we broadcast 100 musical pieces in a week, we must play 65 in French. However, there’s a nuance related to montages, which are compilations of several songs put together without interruption, that count as one song.
In fact, either French‑language or English-language montages could be broadcast. However, we currently only see English-language montages. It is important to note that montages may be broadcast up to a limit of 10% of the content broadcast during a week of broadcasting. This is a long technical explanation to say that, mechanically, in the end, montages serve as a workaround, and that the 65% quota would have to be lowered by 10 percentage points for the share of French‑language content actually broadcast to match it.
