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René Homier-Roy was born in Montréal on April 5, 1940.
In 1958, he studied architecture at McGill University, then political science at the University of Ottawa and the Université de Montréal. In 1963, he began managing the arts and entertainment pages of Le Petit Journal, and in 1969, those of the daily newspaper La Presse.
In 1973, in collaboration with Varham G. Haroutioun and Paul Azaria, he launched Nous magazine, which had 100 000 copies published and which he managed until the end of the 80s. In 1976, after the departure of Lise Payette, he co-hosted the late-night program “Mesdames et Messieurs” on Radio-Canada television.
In 1982, he launched Ticket magazine, focusing on film, and the following year hosted “À première vue” with Chantal Jolis, a series of programs dedicated to film news on Radio-Canada television.
At the same time, he hosted several programs on CKAC radio and co-hosted “Montréal Matin” on CKVL with Pierre Bourgault.
In the years that followed, he contributed extensively to the magazines Châtelaine, l’Actualité, TV Hebdo and Sélection du Reader’s Digest.
From May 1998 until 2013, he hosted the Radio-Canada morning show “C’est bien meilleur le matin,” whose market shares grew from 7 to 21 over the years.
On television, he hosted “Viens voir les comédiens,” a series of wide-ranging interviews he conducted until 2012, which would later become “Viens voir les musiciens” on radio.
Since 2014, he has been hosting “Culture club” on Ici Radio-Canada Première, a magazine devoted to cultural news.
