Claude Rajotte

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Claude Rajotte is a Quebec television host.

Claude Rajotte was born in Drummondville, Quebec on July 3, 1955. His career started at the local radio station CHRD, in 1974.

After short stints in Ottawa and Quebec, he settled in Montreal and started to work for CKOI-FM in 1976.

While being a DJ (1982-2002) for CHOM FM, he spoke English with a marked French Canadian accent that was liked by his radio audience. In the 1980s, Rajotte was in the habit of continually switching from English to French during his broadcasts. With his unmistakable accent, francophones connected immediately, however, that did not detract anglophone listeners, leading to complaints from CHOM's main competitor at the time, the francophone radio station CKOI, Rajotte's former employer. Canada's broadcasting regulators, the CRTC, ruled that CHOM DJs were not allowed to speak in French on the air, despite the requirement that CHOM must broadcast a certain proportion of French language songs.

Claude Rajotte was also a fixture for over 17 years (1987-2004) on MusiquePlus (a channel ressembling american MTV). He was a VJ and a much appreciated album critic. His review show called 'Le Cimetière des CD' was on the air for ten consecutive years.

Some say he's a walking musical encyclopedia. His diverse tastes in music can liken him to such people as BBC's John Peel, for instance, at the Quebec scale.

Claude Rajotte is currently a host/DJ/radio producer for Radio-Canada's Espace Musique web site [1] Rajotte's radio shows are always live and have no musical boundaries. He is on the air Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10PM to mindight (Montreal time).

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Claude Rajotte's air schedule and musical programmations can be consulted at this page [2]. His three week-end programs are heard throughout Canada on Espace Musique and over America on the satellite radio network Sirius on Bandeapart.