Popular host Patrice L’Écuyer returned to the show In the mediaon an unknown fact of his career.
In an interview with Marie-Louise Arsenault on the show In the media broadcast on Wednesday evenings on Télé-Québec, L’Écuyer recounted how he fell out with the bosses of CKMF in the late 1990s.
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In an extract presented on social networks, the host of Quiet, let’s play! explained that his over-generosity towards the listeners of his radio show caused a conflict with the management of CKMF.
“At CKMF, it ended very badly. It ended up in court,” says L’Écuyer.
“I was very, very drooling. Very Robin Hood.[…] People were calling. They were telling a joke. It was funny. Here, we’re going to send you to Disney with your family. 4 days at Disney. I don’t have the right to give you that, but if the radio doesn’t give it to you, well, I’ll stop working next week. I do it might”, added the one we knew at the time of the lie detectors.
He then confessed to giving people 85 trips to Disney that year.
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After receiving a warning from management not to give away anything the station didn’t have, L’Écuyer allegedly invited the population to come and collect the station’s furniture, which raised the ire of his bosses.
We understand them a little, anyway…
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