Journalists will not be allowed access to the Bell Center on Tuesday evening to broadcast the national honors ceremony for Karl Tremblay, which will take place there at 7:30 p.m. However, to mark the final farewell of the Cowboys Fringants singer, the broadcasters will offer special content.
While the ceremony will be broadcast live on social media, Pierre-Olivier Zappa will host a special broadcast from Place des Canadiens to LCN at 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. He will receive several guests who have worked with the leader of the group, including Denis Talbot, with whom he worked for several years on the show M. Net, and Elsie Lefebvre.
Journalists Véronique Lauzon and Christine Manzo will also be there to collect statements from the admirers present and to report on the speech by Quebec Prime Minister François Legault, which will take place outside.
Karl Tremblay, surrounded by his wife Marie-Annick Lépine and his friend Jean-François Pauzé, greets the crowd after the announcement of the cancellation of the Cowboys Fringants concert that was scheduled to take place on the Plains of Abraham. Archive photo, Stevens LeBlanc
Radio-Canada, in turn, will cover the honors ceremony through reports presented on its newscasts, information programs and on the Internet.
In Noovo, anchors Marie-Christine Bergeron and Michel Bherer will anchor their respective newscasts at 5 and 10 p.m. near the Bell Center, where they will present a special edition reflecting the ceremony. Homage to Karl Tremblay. The late evening report is also exceptionally extended to 60 minutes.
All reports and articles relating to the death of Karl Tremblay will then be available on the noovo.info website or via the Noovo Info newsletter.
For its part, Télé-Québec will present the show Les Cowboys Fringants in concert with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra on its airwaves at 8 p.m.
Concert of the Cowboys Fringants with the OSM, in Montreal, September 11, 2018. MARIO BEAUREGARD/AGENCE QMI
On the radio, Énergie, Rouge FM and Boom will simultaneously broadcast a special program at 6:55 p.m., hosted by Mike Gauthier and Denis Fortin, dedicated to the singer of the Cowboys Fringants.
Karl Tremblay died on November 15th of complications from prostate cancer. He was 47 years old.
The Cowboys Fringants have played at the Bell Center nine times during their career.