ARTV is a Canadian French language Category A specialty channel specializing in the arts and culture; including music, dance, theatre, visual arts as well as films and scripted television series.

ARTV was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) as la Télé des Arts as a joint venture between the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Télé-Québec, Bell Globemedia, Arte and L’Équipe Spectra. The channel launched on September 1, 2001 as ARTV.

In Fall 2007, L’Équipe Spectra sold their 7 per cent interest in the service to the CBC. CTVglobemedia also announced that it intended to sell its interest in the service to the CBC as well, the CRTC approved the transaction on June 20, 2008. In late 2010, Télé-Québec sold its interest to the CBC, bringing its total interest to 85%.

Although most licensed analogue specialty services are not mandatory carriage on analogue cable systems and can be carried on digital cable, in all French language markets, ARTV is mandatory carriage on analogue cable that receives the highest number of subscribers. In English language markets, this condition does not apply. In regard to satellite providers, ARTV must be offered in a package that contains the greatest number of French language services.

Nuno Paulo de Sousa Arrobas Crato (born in Lisbon, 1952) is a Portuguese university professor, researcher, mathematician, economist, and writer. For many years, Crato was a researcher and professor in the United States. Back in Portugal, he taught mathematics and statistics in the ISEG/Technical University of Lisbon. He published works and participated in events related to the fields of science divulgation and history of science. In June 2011, he was appointed Minister of Education, Higher Education and Science, in the cabinet of the Portuguese Government led by Pedro Passos Coelho.

Nuno Crato was born in Lisbon on March 9, 1952. Crato studied for a while at the Faculdade de Ciências/University of Lisbon before changing his mind and graduate in economics at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão/Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG/UTL). In addition, he was awarded a masters' degree in mathematical methods for business management by ISEG/UTL.

He taught at the University of the Azores, Stevens Institute of Technology and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He was awarded a doctorate in mathematics by an American educational institution. Since 2000 Crato has been professor of mathematics and statistics at ISEG/UTL. He was also appointed pro-Rector of the Technical University of Lisbon.