The Société de télédiffusion du Québec (French: [sɔsjete də teledifyzjiɔ̃ dy kebɛk]; English: Quebec Television Broadcasting Corporation), branded as Télé-Québec (French: [telekebɛk]) (formerly known as Radio-Québec), is a Canadian French-language public educational television network in the province of Quebec.

The network's main studios and headquarters are located at the corner of de Lorimier Street and East René Lévesque Boulevard in Montreal.

Télé-Québec operates local offices in Val-d'Or, Trois-Rivières, Rimouski, Gatineau, Sept-Îles, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Saguenay and Carleton-sur-Mer.

However, it never got beyond the planning stages until February 22, 1968, when the Daniel Johnson Sr. administration created a new public broadcasting agency, "Radio-Québec", under the auspices of the Ministry of Education.

Produced later that year was its first television program, Les Oraliens, where space aliens taught kids how to pronounce French words and phrases properly.

[1] The network of over-the-air transmitters was launched on January 19, 1975, with the sign-ons of CIVM-TV in Montreal and CIVQ-TV in Quebec City, making its programming available to an even wider audience.

From about 1980 to 1985, the Radio-Québec theme song that played when the station concluded its broadcast day was sung nightly by pop singer Veronique Beliveau who was also at the time the official face on television for the Simpsons department store chain in Quebec.

In addition, the network would adopt the "Télé-Québec" name the following year, in 1996,[5] with the crown corporation renamed as Société de télédiffusion du Québec.

Since August 17, 2018, the children's programs have been branded as Squat for youths and Coucou for preschoolers, each with its own website and mobile app.

For 6 to 8 year-olds, shows have included Macaroni tout garni, Nickelodeon's Rocket Power, Esprits-fantômes, and Le Petit roi Macius.

Ramdam and Banzaï are both aimed at pre-teens (9 to 12) and ADN-X is a teen show that provides practical solutions to everyday problems.

A new weekly cultural magazine-style show, Libre échange, deals with a range of different creative arts, including dance, cinema, literature, sculpture, painting, television, music, and theatre.

Télé-Québec also hosts debate and discussion-oriented shows that allow for an exchange of ideas and perspectives on social and political issues.

As a community service, Télé-Québec has several shows that present a regional perspective, such as Méchant contraste!, À la di Stasio, les Francs Tireurs, M'as-tu lu?, Une pilule, and Pulsart.

[9] The CRTC declined the request, stating that it was beyond the scope of licence renewal, and "should be the subject of a policy proceeding in which broadcasters as a whole are considered".

On terrestrial cable, however, it is generally seen only in Quebec and in communities in Ontario and New Brunswick which are within the broadcast range of a Télé-Québec transmitter.

It is also unknown if the Lithium Mines transmitter was replaced by, or provided secondary service of, CIVA-TV, the Télé-Québec outlet serving nearby Val-d'Or.