Chantal Machabée (born September 4, 1964 in Laval) is a Canadian sports journalist who worked for the Réseau des sports (RDS) for more than 30 years. Prior to her return to day-to-day coverage of the Montreal Canadiens in 2012, she spent nearly 20 years as anchor of Sports 30. She was also the host and panelist of the sports talk show L'Antichambre. In addition to her work at RDS, she also works as a French-language announcer for the Olympic Games. On January 5, 2022, she was appointed as the new Vice-President of Communications for the Montreal Canadiens.
Biography[]
Originally from Laval, Chantal Machabée began her work as a sports journalist at the age of 12. At the age of sixteen, while studying literature at Collège Saint-Laurent, she was doing sports journalism for the Ville St-Laurent weekly, Les Nouvelles/The News, and the now defunct Dimanche-Matin.
At the beginning of her studies in political science at the Université de Montréal, in 1985, she wrote for The Canadian Press and worked on NTR radio as a sports reporter, notably in the program Sportivement nôtre on CKSH (AM) hosted by Gilles Péloquin. In the fall of 1985, she co-hosted the music show Graffiti with Marc Carpentier broadcast on TVJQ.
In 1986, she joined the TVA network in Quebec City to be assigned to cover the Nordiques and host the show Ça, c'est du sport!. In 1988, she became a reader, reporter and sports editor at TVA.
In 1988, she became a reader, reporter and sports editor at TVA.
In 1989, she became the first woman to anchor the daily sports news bulletin Sports 30 on RDS. She is also the first RDS employee to go on the air. On September 1, 1989, she hosted the very first show of Sport 30 with Serge Deslongchamps, which would be the very first show of the network to be broadcast on the sports network. In 1998, she and her colleagues received a Gemini Award for their work.
In 2004, Chantal became the first woman to host the Montreal Canadiens hockey broadcast on RDS, which she hosts with her good friend Jacques Demers.
She was also a daytime anchor on the V network for coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games.
In 2012, she returned to the field and followed the CH on a daily basis as a Beat Reporter.
In 2022, she became Vice President of Communications for the Montreal Canadiens, succeeding Paul Wilson, who was fired on November 28, 2021.
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| Related programs | NHL on CTV - RDS Olympiques | ||||||||
| Related articles | Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium - Stanley Cup Finals television ratings | ||||||||
| Commentators | All-Star Game - Outdoor games - Stanley Cup Finals | ||||||||
| Key figures | David Arsenault - Yanick Bouchard - Benoît Brunet - Guy Carbonneau - Alain Crête - Vincent Damphousse - Marc Denis - Norman Flynn - François Gagnon - Denis Gauthier - Luc Gélinas - Pierre Houde - Michel Y. Lacroix - Guillaume Latendresse - Jocelyn Lemieux - Chantal Machabée - Claude Mailhot - Mario Tremblay | ||||||||
| Music | "The Hockey Theme" | ||||||||
| Stanley Cup Finals | 2003 - 2004 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 | ||||||||
| All-Star Game | 2003 - 2004 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2011 - 2012 - 2015 | ||||||||
| Winter and Heritage Classics and Stadium Series |
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