Dutrizac was the 10:00 pm newscast on TQS

Tqs

V is a Canadian privately-owned French-language television network. The network has owned-and-operated and affiliated stations existing throughout Quebec, although it can also be seen over-the-air in some bordering markets in the provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick...

, a Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

-based French-language television station. Its host, Benoît Dutrizac, goes against the typical stereotype of a news presenter

News presenter

A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

. Described by TQS as "kind of scruffy-looking", Dutrizac wears jeans and smokes a cigar on air. "He looks more like a college professor than a news anchor." Dutrizac's fan-base is established on the fact that he is truly determined to "get to the bottom of issues", and never take no as an answer.