Simon Durivage is a Canadian

Canada

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 French-language television news anchor

News presenter

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 for RDI en direct

RDI en direct

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. He was recruited by Radio-Canada

Télévision de Radio-Canada

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 in 1969 and has since hosted several newscasts and public affairs programs: Consommateurs avertis, Enjeux, Le Point

Le Point

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, Montréal-Express, Montréal ce soir and Rédacteur en chef.

Having spent part of his career at network TVA

TVA (TV network)

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, he anchored the 10 p.m. newscast of this network for several years. In 2002, he left TVA for Radio-Canada, allowing Sophie Thibault

Sophie Thibault

Sophie Thibault is a Quebec journalist and television reporter for the TVA network.-Biography:She earned a bachelor's degree in psychology, after which she became a radio reporter for CINQ-FM and CHAI-FM...

 to take his place. From 2004 to 2006, he hosted simondurivage.com. Since 2006, he hosts RDI en direct on Quebec-based 24-hour news-channel RDI

Réseau de l'information

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, where he also hosts Le club des ex, a forum where former politicians comment news items.

His voice is heard on the telephone

National Research Council Time Signal

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 and shortwave radio

CHU (radio station)

CHU is the call sign of a shortwave time signal radio station operated by the Institute for National Measurement Standards of the National Research Council of Canada.- History :...

 time services of the National Research Council

National Research Council of Canada

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, announcing the time in French.