Marie-France Bazzo (born July 8, 1961) is a
Canadian broadcaster, who has hosted television programming for
Télé-Québec and radio programming for the
Ici Radio-Canada Première network.
Born in
Montreal, she is a graduate of the
Université du Québec à Montréal, where she studied
sociology.
Radio
She began her career with
CIBL-FM
CIBL-FM (101.5 MHz) is a French-language community radio station located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It broadcasts using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 872 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 2,800 wat ...
in Montreal. She joined Radio-Canada in 1985, hosting programs such as ''Plaisirs'', ''Dazibazzo'', ''Et quoi encore'', ''VSD Bonjour'', ''Indicatif présent'' and ''
Le Combat des livres
''Le Combat des livres'' is an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Ici Radio-Canada Première in Canada. A French edition of the ''Canada Reads'' competition, the program was launched in 2004. It aired annually from ...
''.
From Fall 2013 to Spring 2015, she appeared on
CBF-FM
CBF-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station licensed to Montreal, Quebec.
Owned and operated by the government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it transmits on 95.1 MHz from the Mount Royal candelabra tower with an effective radia ...
, Première's flagship station in
Montreal, as host of the daily morning program ''C’est pas trop tôt !''.
Television
In 2004, she began hosting ''Il va y avoir du sport'', a political debate show, for Télé-Québec. In 2006, after leaving Première Chaîne, she created a new public affairs series for the network, ''Bazzo.tv''.
She was also a reporter for
Télévision de Radio-Canada's cultural magazine show ''La Bande des six''. She left her role as broadcaster at what became Ici Radio-Canada Télé on April 3, 2015 due to disagreements regarding the "show’s orientation" with the company.
References
1961 births
Living people
French Quebecers
People from Montreal
Canadian television talk show hosts
CBC Radio hosts
Université du Québec à Montréal alumni
Canadian talk radio hosts
Télé-Québec people
Canadian women radio hosts
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