Radio / Television News

Quebec government helps fund Passion FM’s relocation

SAINT-LAZARE-DE-BELLECHASSE, Que. — The Quebec government is providing $546,000 to Radio Bellechasse-Etchemins, known to listeners as Passion FM, to help the French-language community station move to new premises. The funding announcement was made Monday by Stephanie Lachance, member of the Quebec national assembly for Bellechasse and parliamentary assistant to the minister of families, on behalf of the Quebec minister of culture and communications, Nathalie Roy. Passion FM operates in Lac-Etchemin, Que., along with several repeaters in Armagh, Saint-Malachie, Saint-Anselme and Saint-Jean de l’Île d’Orléans. According to the French news release, the radio station is forced to leave its current premises...