Jeff Fillion will leave Radio X earlier than expected

Jeff Fillion

Jeff Fillion will leave Radio X sooner than expected. Instead of staying on the radio station until the end of August as previously announced, he will host his last show on Friday, April 29, CHOI Radio X announced Thursday.

< p>The decision was made “by mutual agreement,” it said in a statement. Until the start of the fall, the noon program will be taken care of by the host Yannick Marceau, “a regular in the noon time block”, who will act as interim, it is specified.

For his part, Jeff Fillion reacted on his social networks by emphasizing that, from Monday, he would be exclusively on radiopirate.com, his internet radio, which he already operated in parallel. “A new chapter begins. Thank you to Radio X listeners for the past 6 years,” he added.

Recall that the reason for this departure is that Mr. Fillion rejected the offer renewal of his agreement, which ended in August, offered to him by the radio station owned by RNC Media.

“For a few months, I have informed RNC of the plans I had in mind for my future and RNC did not comply with my requests and my conditions and chose not to offer me a new contract. I consider that at this stage of my career, I have the privilege of knowing what I am worth and I deserve to be able to choose the conditions that suit me and that is what I have decided to do. -he commented in a short audio document published on his social networks on April 14.

Faced with legal proceedings and numerous complaints to the CRTC, Jeff Fillion left CHOI FM for the first time in 2005. However, he returned to it in 2016 after a two-year stint at Énergie 98.9 that ended in controversy.