radio season | New on the air

The radio autumn is marked by many changes. The Press spoke to four hosts who will take the helm of a new show.

Marie-Louise Arsenault, electric and eclectic

Marie-Louise Arsenault begins a new chapter this fall on radio with Everything can happen.

After 11 seasons of hosting The more the merrier, the more we read!Marie-Louise Arsenault will begin a new radio chapter this fall with Everything can happen, his new show broadcast on Saturdays at the end of the day. The host will be surrounded by her accomplice from the beginnings of The crazier we are, journalist Jean-Philippe Cipriani, who will do a “very broad” review of the week’s news. And also a group of musicians (house band) directed by Paul Charles.

A team of regular contributors will discuss with the host various topics, both political and social and cultural. Nicolas Pham, Irdens Exantus, Raed Hammoud, Mathieu Bélisle, Helen Faradji, Kevin Lambert, Isabelle Craig, Martine St-Victor (the latter will discuss sports) will follow one another at his microphone. “We also want to give a voice to lesser-known people, to take risks,” says the host of In the mediaat Télé-Québec, which likes to carry out “all kinds of interview concepts”.

In a press release from Radio-Canada, the director general of radio, audio and Greater Montreal, Caroline Jamet, writes that the host “has a great ability to create happenings radio. Her great culture, her curiosity and her qualities as an interviewer make her an excellent host”.

If the new culture and society program will be different from The crazier we are, it will retain great freedom of tone and content.

Moreover, the title of the show refers to the spontaneity, the unexpected live (which she loves!), but also to our post-pandemic era where, indeed, anything can happen..

Finally, Marie-Louise Arsenault would like her weekly appointment to become a SNL (Saturday Night Live) of public radio, a radio “show” carried by an electric atmosphere and animated by a creative madness. A show like its animator and designer.

Everything can happenSaturdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., starting September 10, at ICI Première

Pierre Hébert, the happy tightrope walker

Comedian and host Pierre Hébert is currently experiencing an effervescent period. Between The little tanners and Matter of judgmenttwo shows he presented on Radio-Canada TV, he created a radio daily that was presented on Rouge FM.

Accompanied by the very colorful (the word is weak) Christine Morency, he will present Full noon on Rouge FM. This skilled communicator, after years as a contributor to the show Véronique and the Fantastics (he does not leave the show, however), will have his own slot.

This show will be based on the reality that the two friends live. She is single and lives in downtown Montreal. He lives in the suburbs. She doesn’t want children, he has three.

“We have very ordinary lives after all. We want listeners to recognize themselves in our experiences, our observations. We had to fun together. I want it to be contagious. »

Pierre Hébert is not afraid of the tandem formula.

In fact, the idea of ​​this show came from the desire of these two friends, who went to see the bosses to propose this concept to them.

Christine Morency is renowned for making remarks that can sometimes scratch the ears and offend certain morals. Pierre Hébert is not afraid to walk on eggshells in his presence. “I live well with his audacity, because I know that it is never to provoke. She does it with humor and kindness, which means that you understand the second degree. »

With all these TV and radio projects, Pierre Hébert temporarily puts the stage aside. “I must admit that it is a dream schedule for my family and me. I was often offered to work on morning shows and I refused. I want to be with my family in the morning and in the evening. »

He therefore does not plan to return to the stage for three years. “I am living a great professional and personal period. I make programs that I know well and in which I am comfortable. It doesn’t disrupt my life. I feel for the first time in my life that I have achieved a balance between work and my family. »

A few days before the launch of this show, Pierre Hébert does not hide his excitement. “We can’t wait to dive. That said, this show, we will build it over the weeks. »

Full noonwith Pierre Hébert and Christine Morency, weekdays from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., at Rouge FM

A great challenge for Elisabeth Crête

The new host of the weekend morning shows at 98.5 FM can no longer stand still. Elisabeth Crête is very eager to grab the microphone of Even on weekends in the company of his accomplice Chantal Lamarre and many collaborators.

This mandate is a crucial step for the one that listeners have known since January 2021 as the columnist responsible for social networks on the show. Since you have to get up.

Originally from Quebec, Elisabeth Crête quickly understood that the world of communications was made for her. It must be said that she grew up with a father (Alain Crête) who has always been immersed in this universe.

After studying in California and Ottawa, she returned to her hometown to complete her bachelor’s degree and make her debut at FM 93. “I did everything there,” she says. Broadcasting, researching and co-hosting the morning show for five years. »

Then, in the midst of a pandemic, she joined the show Since you have to get up, with Paul Arcand. She then became responsible for web and social media coverage.

Working with the “king of the waves” was formative for her. “I learned everything with this team. It is run in quarter turn. Paul works a lot. He’s not number one for nothing. You want to perform well for him. »

It seems that a passage within the team of Paul Arcand is beneficial for several collaborators. After Monic Néron and Émilie Perreault, Elisabeth Crête finds herself with her own show in the niche that Paul Houde occupied until very recently.

Elisabeth Crête can count on the presence of Chantal Lamarre to hold the helm of this program. “I wanted her to say yes so much that when we first met, I went into seduction mode. It clicked. »

Elisabeth Crête promises a public affairs program, but with a “weekend tone”. “We have to have fun,” she said. When you have your coffee on Saturday morning, it’s not like Monday. »

A few days before the launch of the show, Elisabeth Crête is feverish. “I dreamed last night that I was on the air and nothing was working. It was a disaster. That said, I want to take my place, but not all the place. I will take the one that is mine and that I deserve. »

Even on weekendswith Elisabeth Crête, accompanied by Chantal Lamarre, Lise Ravary, Valérie Beaudoin (American politics), Jérémy Rainville (sports) and other collaborators, Saturday and Sunday at 7 a.m., at 98.5 FM

Émilie Perreault, culturally yours!

Starting September 5, Émilie Perreault will host ICI Radio-Canada Première’s new daily cultural program.

One only has to look at the titles of his books (Do useful work, Essential service) to understand that Émilie Perreault has given herself a mission in life. The journalist and host wants to convey to the public the desire to see and consume culture.

According to her, “creation plays a fundamental role in our daily lives, and in our societies”. So, we are hardly surprised to learn that Émilie Perreault’s new show will be in her image. Because it will promote Francophone culture across the country and in all its forms.

There will always be culture will be broadcast weekday afternoons on ICI Première. The title refers to a quote from the writer Dany Laferrière who, during the terrible earthquake in Haiti in 2010, said to our colleague Chantal Guy: “When everything falls, culture remains! Dany Laferrière will also participate in the first broadcast on September 5, live from Port-au-Prince.

There will be no reviews strictly speaking, but guests will give reviews of shows or exhibitions on view, putting the works into perspective.

For the host, who has already collaborated on Paul Arcand’s show, “radio is a local medium that allows you to have a concrete impact in people’s daily lives”. It is also the best platform, according to her, to “excite the listeners” and give them a taste for art.

Émilie Perreault will work with a network of collaborators who will make alternating appearances every two weeks. Radio-Canada has not revealed any names yet, since the team is not complete. But we know that Émilie Perreault is preparing the show in close collaboration with Sylvie Lavoie (Culture Club), a director with 30 years of experience at Radio-Canada.

We also know that many creators will find themselves at his microphone, well-known and lesser-known artists, who will come to the studio for interviews, reviews or performances. “There will be a literary predominance, says the host, but we will also talk about the living arts. I am an avid theatergoer, as you know. »

And not just a spectator: Émilie Perreault is also a theater writer. Next week she will give a public reading of a text of her own, The consented suspension of disbelief. A solo directed by actress Sophie Cadieux, at the Fous de theater festival, at L’Assomption (August 25, 26 and 27).

There will always be cultureweekdays from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., starting September 5, at ICI Première