The day the music died will come to MusiquePlus, the erstwhile star-making Quebec music specialty channel, in August. "There was a relaunch of MusiquePlus, developing three other pillars alongside music: humour, reality TV and series. On Twitter, Pierre Landry, a longtime music columnist at CBC Montreal who spent five years at MusiquePlus, remembered the music station as a "creative laboratory" where almost everything was permitted — both on and off the air. (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press)"The magic of MusiquePlus was the proximity and the spontaneity," said Borne, a VJ at the station from 1992 to 2000. "I met some really good friends going to shows at MusiquePlus on my own."

Source: CBC News February 14, 2019 18:33 UTC