Sports Broadcasting
During a long strike in 1964 at La Presse, he had a brief first experience in sports broadcasting, for Montreal Alouettes football games.
He got the assignment as the Montreal Expos beat writer for La Presse as soon as the franchise was awarded to Montreal in 1968, in addition to being the official scorer for games at Jarry Park.
Sometime in the middle of the Expos' first season in 1969, he was asked to replace from time to time Jean-Pierre Roy as colour commentator on the now-defunct CKLM 1570, which held the French radio broadcast rights, as Roy moved to TV broadcasts once a week.
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