Richard was president and founder of MétéoMédia, Expotech Imax and the Quebec book publishing company Mondia.
MétéoMédia is a 24-hour Canadian French-language cable television specialty channel and web site
MétéoMédia, a Canadian French-language cable television channel specializing on weather
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Meteomedia AG, a company providing weather data in Germany and Switzerland
On 5 August 2003 the private weather service Meteomedia recorded a temperature of 40.3°C in Möhlin, a record for Switzerland.
Local insertion on cable television is used especially on The Weather Channel in the U.S. and The Weather Network/MétéoMédia in Canada, where systems like the WeatherSTAR, IntelliSTAR and PMX have been used to show local weather forecasts (known as "Local on the 8s" on The Weather Channel in the U.S.) every ten minutes, and well as the lower display line (LDL) or lower-third graphic that is shown at other times.