Patrick Lagacé’s team is taking shape. As Paul Arcand prepares to end his show Since you have to get up on the airwaves of 98.5, Patrick Lagacé sees the final details of the one who will take over from August 12 and who will be called Bored in the morning.
Among the new features, there is the arrival of my colleague Marie-Eve Fournier, who, in place of Pierre-Yves McSween (the latter will now be alongside Philippe Cantin in the return), will deal with economics, personal and consumer finance. Yanick Bouchard becomes the sports columnist and Stéphanie Gagnon will be on the news.
We will find a certain stability thanks to Catherine Brisson (culture), Jonathan Trudeau (politics), Frédéric Labelle (social networks) and Marc Brière (circulation). Luc Ferrandez will offer his frank and enlightened view on various subjects. It remains to be seen who will be the sharp columnists who will come to debate the hot topics of the day. Patrick Lagacé told me that he and his team are working to establish a concept that they obviously want to be solid. “The choice has not yet been made. We juggle with various formulas. »
Vulgarity on the radio
Marie-Josée Olsen, teacher at the Higher School of Media Art and Technology (ATM) at the Cégep de Jonquière, was interested in the quality of language on the radio. During a study that spanned several months, she listened to 40 live morning shows. The broadcasts were national, regional or local and came from private and public radio stations.
What comes out of this exercise? That a considerable number of anglicisms, colloquial expressions and swear words are embedded in our radio. “Ten out of 40 shows contained original swearing or other forms of vulgarity. When we take into account the softened form (tabarnane), we go up to 17 out of 40,” the researcher explained to me.
Why so many vulgarities? The qualitative part of the survey shows that presenters and columnists use this to “get closer to the public”.
The final study will be presented shortly.
Summer at Rouge and Énergie
Things are happening on Bell Media radio stations in Montreal as the summer season approaches. As of June 17, you will find in The morning gang, Monday to Friday from 5:30 a.m., Benoît Gagnon, Josiane Aubuchon and Félix-Antoine Tremblay. Denis Fortin will be at the helm Hits in Denis, weekdays, from noon to 1 p.m. Philippe Pépin will take over on Saturdays and Sundays, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. In the return A little, a lot, passionately summerMonday to Friday, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Phil Roy surrounds himself with a happy group of collaborators including Élyse Marquis, Mickaël Gouin, Julie Ringuette and several others.
On the Energy side, the summer season will begin on June 25. The daily morning The boost will bring together Phil Branch, Valérie Sardin and Dave Morgan. Mike Gauthier will meet you from Monday to Friday, at 11:30 a.m., at Stereo Mike. In the afternoon, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., It goes to the post will allow you to catch up with Julie Boulanger, aka JuliBou, Simon Delisle and Patrick Groulx.
Gilles Vigneault in the spotlight
At the dawn of his 96th birthday, the legendary Gilles Vigneault agrees to speak in two special programs broadcast on ICI Première and ICI Musique. First, there is this interview given to the host Catherine Pépin where Vigneault, despite his great age, suggests a verb as hard as oak, a poetry flowing like a stream. These two hours of radio produced by Alexandre Bernard are both moving and refreshing. The host formulates questions that go straight to the point and leave plenty of room for Vigneault. The time we take to say “I love you”, Saturday, May 25, at 10 a.m., on ICI Musique.
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The poet Gilles Vigneault, in 2021
And then there is this show hosted by Stéphane Leclair and produced by Mathieu Beauchamp where Gilles Vigneault answers questions from 5 year old studentse and 6e year who attend the Gilles-Vigneault school.
Obviously, this idea really pleased the poet. He appears very animated. The children’s questions are both pure and astonishing. The answers are, predictably, captivating.
An example ? This student who asks Gilles Vigneault at what age he wanted to be a poet. He replies: “The day before yesterday! » This show is a true anthology piece. To listen to without fail! At the school of Gilles Vigneaulton ICI Première, Sunday May 26 at 8 p.m.
You can also listen to these two shows on the OHdio platform which also offers the audio book of Gaya and the little desert by Gilles Vigneault. Daniel Lavoie, Marcel Sabourin, Diane Tell and others provide the narration.
Cogeco in summer mode
Cogeco radio stations will switch to summer mode over the coming weeks. At 98.5, Marie-Claude Lavallée takes over the 10 a.m. to noon slot. There is no doubt that our mornings will be both enjoyable and enriching. It’s Élisabeth Crête, who we normally hear on weekends, who will host the return home from 3 p.m. At CKOI, the return home will be ensured by a dynamic trio made up of Valérie Roberts, Danick Martineau and Pierre-Luc Pomerleau. On Rythme FM, we will start the weekdays with Éric Nolin, Ingrid Falaise and Léa Stréliski.
Red Light as if you were there
Journalist Sophie Langlois is the granddaughter of Albert Langlois, police chief in Montreal in the 1940s and 1950s, when the underworld ruled the Red Light. Those who will clean up will be prosecutors Pacifique Plante and Jean Drapeau. After the legendary Caron commission, Drapeau, elected mayor of Montreal in 1954, dismissed Albert Langlois, who would live with the image of a corrupt leader until the end of his days. Sophie Langlois sheds light on this mysterious man.
His encounters are multiple. Over the course of six episodes, we hear testimonies from Marc Laurendeau, Dominique Michel, Alain Stanké and several others. I won’t tell you the conclusion of his research, but let’s say that we are forced to reflect on the part of shadow and light that we all have. Vices and truths: in the shadow of Red Lightstarting May 29 on OHdio.
When humor goes far
We don’t talk about it at home, but in France, the thing makes a lot of noise. This is the comedian Guillaume Meurice, who, on October 29, in the radio show The great Sunday evening broadcast on France Inter, attacked Benyamin Netanyahu with a joke that did not get through. Meurice said: “Halloween is coming and everyone is starting to look for a scary costume. At the moment, the Netanyahu disguise is working quite well. He’s some kind of Nazi, but without a foreskin. » These words caused a scandal!
After reiterating these remarks (on April 28), Guillaume Meurice was suspended on May 2. On Sunday May 12, his colleagues disrupted France Inter programming in reaction to his suspension. Last Thursday, the comedian was summoned before a committee with a view to “a possible disciplinary sanction”.
This affair divides the public and the communications community. If Meurice can count on ardent defenders, there are also comrades who deplore his insistence. “Nazifying a Jew is rotten. Repeating it is rotten! There are other ways to say that Netanyahu is trash,” Sophia Aram said on the set of C to you.