Fin de la route à CHOM pour Terry DiMonte

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Son départ est une décision difficile, évoque-t-il par communiqué. « C’est très difficile de dire au revoir à quelque chose qui m’a apporté autant de bonheur. Je méditais là-dessus depuis quelques années. Il est temps d’entamer un nouveau chapitre… qui n’inclut pas de me réveiller chaque jour au milieu de la nuit ! »

https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/2021-05-04/terry-dimonte-annonce-son-depart-de-chom.php

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“It’s a very difficult thing to walk away from something that has been so good to me and that I love so much,” said DiMonte in a news release. “It was a very tough decision for me to make, but one I’ve been pondering for a couple of years, and it is time for a new chapter… one that doesn’t include getting up in the middle of the night!”

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/veteran-chom-radio-host-terry-dimonte-is-stepping-away-from-the-mic-after-43-years-1.5413235

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Speaking of accommodations, DiMonte admits there was one his bosses at Bell Media apparently wouldn’t make when it came to allowing him choosing when to leave. His eight-year contract ends at the end of the month.

“As January and February went by, there were a bunch of changes in the building,” he said, “and it became apparent there wasn’t going to be a discussion about going past May 28. They came to me and said: ‘How about a retirement celebration?’ I said, ‘Why not? It’s a nice way to go out.’

“But I’m disappointed. Had there been a possibility we could have gone to the end of the year, we could have had a (staff) dinner party when COVID subsides. But given the current circumstances, that wasn’t to be.”

Looking forward, DiMonte doesn’t know where he’ll end up next. But as a guy who has been working seemingly every day since he was hired as a caddy at The Royal Montreal Golf Club at age 13, he knows what’s up this summer: “Absolutely nothing. I ain’t kidding ya’.”

https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/terry-dimonte-announces-hes-leaving-chom

Terry DiMonte animera sa dernière émission à CHOM le vendredi 28 mai prochain.

-- Le couillon anonyme

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Terry DiMonte : boucler la boucle
Terry DiMonte venait tout juste d’annoncer, en ondes, sa retraite comme morning man à CHOM FM. « C’est difficile d’imaginer la radio de Montréal sans toi », lui a dit la lectrice de nouvelles Trudie Mason. Pierre Houde, le chroniqueur de hockey de DiMonte, a rendu spontanément hommage à son ami. « J’en ai la gorge nouée », lui a répondu l’animateur, un sanglot dans la voix.

https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/2021-05-26/terry-dimonte-boucler-la-boucle.php