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Claude Rajotte is a DJ/radio host on Montreal's Espace Musique, Radio-Canada (FM 100,7 in the Montreal area). He is on the air Saturday and Sunday nights, 11PM until 2AM, Montreal time zone. His email address is clauderajotte@radio-canada.ca |
Claude Rajotte is a DJ/radio host on Montreal's Espace Musique, Radio-Canada (FM 100,7 in the Montreal area). He is on the air Saturday and Sunday nights, 11PM until 2AM, Montreal time zone. His email address is clauderajotte@radio-canada.ca |
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His live programs are heard throughout Canada on the CBC/Radio-Canada french radio network. Wherever you are in the world, just connect to Espace Musique's web site for a live feed to your computer: [[http://www.radio-canada.ca/ |
His live programs are heard throughout Canada on the CBC/Radio-Canada french radio network. Wherever you are in the world, just connect to Espace Musique's web site for a live feed to your computer: [[http://www.radio-canada.ca/espace_musique]] |
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Listen to his five most recent three-hour radio programs. They are archived and freely accessible from Espace MusiqueS web site, via Rajotte's 'animateur' page on Espace Musique web site. |
Listen to his five most recent three-hour radio programs. They are archived and freely accessible from Espace MusiqueS web site, via Rajotte's 'animateur' page on Espace Musique web site. |
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Claude Rajotte Montreal Quebec, Canada.
Claude Rajotte is a DJ/radio host on Montreal's Espace Musique, Radio-Canada (FM 100,7 in the Montreal area). He is on the air Saturday and Sunday nights, 11PM until 2AM, Montreal time zone. His email address is clauderajotte@radio-canada.ca His live programs are heard throughout Canada on the CBC/Radio-Canada french radio network. Wherever you are in the world, just connect to Espace Musique's web site for a live feed to your computer: [[1]]
Listen to his five most recent three-hour radio programs. They are archived and freely accessible from Espace MusiqueS web site, via Rajotte's 'animateur' page on Espace Musique web site.
Claude Rajotte was born in Drummondville, Quebec on July 3, 1955. He was raided in a small village called Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil. His career started in Drummondville at the local radio station called CHRD-AM, in 1974.
After short stints at CJRC-AM in Ottawa, CFLS-AM and CKRL-FM Quebec, he settled in Montreal and started to work for CKOI-FM in november 1976.
While being a DJ (1982-2002) for CHOM-FM, he spoke English with a marked French Canadian accent that was liked by his radio audience. In the 1980s, Rajotte was in the habit of continually switching from English to French during his broadcasts. With his unmistakable accent, Francophones connected immediately, however, that did not detract Anglophone listeners, leading to complaints from CHOM's main competitor at the time, the Francophone radio station CKOI, Rajotte's former employer. Canada's broadcasting regulators, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), ruled that CHOM DJs were not allowed to speak in French on the air, despite the requirement that CHOM must broadcast a certain proportion of French language songs.
Claude Rajotte was also a fixture for over 17 years (1987-2004) on MusiquePlus (a channel resembling American MTV). He was a VJ and a much appreciated album critic. His review show called 'Le Cimetière des CD' was on the air for ten consecutive years.
Some say he's a walking musical encyclopedia. His diverse tastes in music can liken him to such people as BBC's John Peel, for instance, at the Quebec scale.