Herby Moreau Joins the Bell Media Team

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MONTRÉAL (August 12, 2014) – Bell Media announced today the addition of Herby Moreau to its Québec team. He will become the new face of entertainment –  walking red carpets and attending various must-see events across Québec and the globe, for several of Bell Media’s properties, over the next five years.

“This is a golden opportunity to explore the artistic community and produce captivating Web, radio, and television content for the public,” said Herby Moreau. “I feel extremely privileged to do the work I love so much.”

Moreau first joins the team as Creative Director and Content Manager for enVedette.ca, the foremost entertainment and celebrity news site both at home and abroad. Moreau will produce a daily blog post, as well as vignettes and video reports that will be posted on enVedette.ca and Sympatico.ca’s Entertainment WebTV channel. Moreau joins other personalities already producing daily content on Sympatico.ca.

Moreau and his team will appear on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), on September 4. His reports and series will be available on enVedette.ca, the Super Écran GO app, the Virgin Radio 96 and VRAK TV websites (in collaboration with VRAK 2), the Sympatico.ca homepage, as well as on Rouge fm, among other outlets. His reports will be broadcast on the Bell box’s jumbo screen, which will be set up on the red carpet at Roy Thompson Hall throughout the festival.

Herby Moreau will also helm special radio and TV shows. Canal Vie will draw on his expertise to develop projects highlighting the channel’s close relationships with artists, while broadening its horizons at the international level. Details and other collaborations will be unveiled over the upcoming weeks.

From the get-go, Herby Moreau’s will reach over 2 million users every day via:
•    enVedette.ca, Québec’s foremost entertainment and celebrity news site, with over 400,000 unique visitors, according to ComScore;
•    Sympatico.ca, over 1.6 million unique visitors every month;
•    Super Écran GO; over 25,000 app downloads in its first month. Super Écran is the only French-language pay-TV channel, dedicated exclusively to movies;
•    VRAK TV, which boasts over 117,000 Facebook fans and whose website gets 70,000 unique visitors each month;
•    Virgin Radio 96, whose website gets over 100,000 unique visitors each month.

About Herby Moreau
Born in Haiti in a family of three children, Herby Moreau arrived in Québec at age five, after a few years spent in Congo-Brazzaville, where his parents worked for international organizations. While studying cinema and communications at Université de Montréal, he worked as a television production assistant. In 1991, he relocated to France, where he then enrolled in the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille. He then found work in Paris at RFO, France 2, TV5 and M6. Moving back to Québec, he was a reporter for Petit Journal, then Flash, both shows on TQS. It was on the latter that his calling as a star chaser took off. From the OSCARS® to the Cannes Festival, Herby became the king of the red carpet. After hosting shows Star Système and Les Auditions Star Académie, he created District V for channel V. Today, this accomplished host and journalist helms his own website, Herby.tv.

About Bell Media
Through its passion and unwavering commitment to excellence, Bell Media creates content and builds brands that entertain, inform, connect and inspire viewers on their favourite platforms. As Canada’s first Canadian multimedia services company, Bell Media holds assets in television, radio, out-of-home advertising and digital media. Bell Media owns 30 local television stations, led by CTV, Canada’s #1 television network; 35 specialty channels, including TSN and RDS, Canada’s most-watched specialty channels in both English and French; four pay TV services, including The Movie Network and Super Écran; and is managing shareholder of premium pay-per-view service Viewers Choice Canada. Bell Media is also Canada’s largest radio broadcaster, with 106 licensed radio stations in 54 markets across the country. Bell Media owns Astral Out-of-Home, one of Canada’s most dynamic and innovative exterior advertising companies, with over 9,500 advertising faces in Québec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. Bell Media also operates over 200 websites, delivering TV Everywhere with its innovative GO video streaming services, including Super Écran GO, CTV GO and TMN GO, and owns Dome Productions Inc., a multi-platform production company. Bell Media is part of BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest telecommunications company. For more information on Bell Media, visit www.bellmedia.ca.

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For more information:
Olivier Racette, Bell Media, 514-939-5001, ext. 3193, or olivier.racette@bellmedia.ca