Patrick Tremblay
RDS – RDS INFO – Z
NOOVO’S NEWS SHOW LE FIL TO DEBUT ON MARCH 29
- Bell Media is continuing its industry leading investment in and commitment to offer enhanced information and entertainment programming across all its platforms -
Noovo today announced that its news show LE FIL will air for the first time on March 29. Noovo’s news division, Noovo Info, will feature a strong team of journalists covering current affairs and subjects of interest to Quebecers across the province. LE FIL’s local and national broadcasts are sure to become essential news viewing for Québec audiences, benefiting the TV ecosystem as a whole.
“With LE FIL, we will provide news reports that are aligned with the Noovo brand and its DNA: engaging, genuine and contemporary. It’s a new voice that will offer Québec greater editorial diversity and appeal to the public. To date, we have hired nearly sixty people to launch our new information service in the last few months. We are extremely proud of the journalists we have recruited for the launch of Noovo Info and LE FIL, as well as our contributors, content producers, researchers, managers and technicians who will handle the day-to-day production of the shows,” said Jean-Philippe Pineault, General Manager, News and Information, Bell Media.
“Coming from a wide range of backgrounds, they will form a dynamic, experienced and versatile team. With the support of our anchors Noémi Mercier, Lisa-Marie Blais, Michel Bherer and Meeker Guerrier, the team will give the news broadcasts on each of our channels a distinctive tone and feel,” added Mr. Pineault.
LE FIL
The news show LE FIL will air every day of the week on Noovo during various time slots:
Monday to Friday, 5 p.m. (60 minutes)
- National segment (30 minutes), hosted by Noémi Mercier
- Québec City, Mauricie, Estrie and Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean editions, from 5:30 p.m., hosted by Lisa-Marie Blais
- Montréal edition, from 5:30 p.m., hosted by Noémi Mercier
- National segment, hosted by Michel Bherer
- Québec City, Mauricie, Estrie, and Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean editions, from 10:10 pm, hosted by Lisa-Marie Blais
- Montréal edition, from 10:10 p.m., hosted by Michel Bherer
- National edition, hosted by Meeker Guerrier
About Noovo
Noovo is the network that does things differently! Reality TV, comedy, variety, and fiction from here and abroad: Noovo’s rich, entertaining and unifying programming offers an escape from everyday life. Noovo shatters the conventional television model by offering content on all platforms, for everyone, everywhere, all the time. A division of Bell Media, Noovo includes television stations in Montréal, Québec, Saguenay, Sherbrooke, and Trois-Rivières, as well as affiliates stations in Gatineau, Rivière-du-Loup and Val-d’Or. The network’s ad-supported VOD service Noovo.ca provides access to all of the brand’s original programming in addition to exclusive content. To explore the Noovo universe, visit noovo.ca.
About Bell Media in Québec
Bell Media is a leading content creation company with premier assets in Québec in television, radio, digital media, out-of-home, and more. Bell Media operates a number of French-language TV services including conventional network and digital destination Noovo, as well as eight specialty and pay TV services – Canal D, Canal Vie, Z, VRAK, Investigation, SUPER ÉCRAN, Cinépop, and RDS, Québec’s #1 sports channel. Bell Media also operates CTV Montreal, the #1 English news outlet in Québec, and Crave, the bilingual video streaming service with more than 7,200 hours of exclusive French-language content. The company develops and operates websites, apps, and online platforms for its news, sports, and entertainment brands, including RDS Direct and Noovo.ca. Bell Media is Québec’s leading radio broadcaster, with 25 stations in 13 communities, all part of the iHeartRadio Canada brand and streaming service. Bell Media owns Montréal-based Astral, an out-of-home advertising network of 50,000 faces in five provinces, and has a minority interest in Montréal’s Grandé Studios. Bell Media is part of BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest communications company. Learn more at BellMedia.ca.
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