Quebecois music video broadcaster MusiquePlus will go off air in August.
This is one the channels I use to watch alternatively with Much Music in the 80’s and 90’s, which introduced me to francophone rock and pop from Quebec\/Canada, France and Belgium, through music videos and live performances.
Unfortunately, like most music channels they started diversifying their content in the late 90’s, slowly leaving music videos behind and i’ve stopped watching it because it had been flooded with “reality” programs.
When Youtube came along in 2005, this was the beginning of the end for these stations, the coup de grace being Vevo, which came online in December 2009.
I will miss it, especially Claude Rajote’s “Le Cimeti\u00e8re des CD”, one of the channel’s longest running music critique program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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