Kolter Bouchard (born 1991) is a Canadian radio and online personality based in Toronto. He co-hosted the
afternoon drive program on
CFNY-FM
CFNY-FM (102.1 Hertz, MHz, "102.1 The Edge") is a radio station city of license, licensed to Brampton, Ontario. Owned by Corus Entertainment, the station broadcasts a modern rock format serving the Greater Toronto Area. Its studios are in Downtow ...
(102.1 The Edge) from late 2018 until March 2024, first with Meredith Geddes and from May 2023 with Casey-Jo Loos. Bouchard was diagnosed with Stage 2
Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2020 when he was in his late twenties and is in remission.
Bouchard left Corus and CFNY in March 2024 to become a full-time content developer. Bouchard has a TikTok following of 589,000 and another 272,000 on Instagram. He and his wife, Dominique Bouchard, co-founded digital production agency Symal Creative and co-host a relationships podcast, ''Playing House''.
He is a graduate of the
RTA School of Media The RTA School of Media is a school within the Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University located in the Rogers Communications Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It offers two Bachelor of Arts (Media Production and Sport Media) and a Masters ...
at Ryerson University (now
Toronto Metropolitan University
Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU, or Toronto Met), formerly Ryerson University, is a Public university, public research university located in Toronto, Canada. The university's core campus is situated within the Garden District, Toronto, Gar ...
). While at Ryerson, he was a host on campus radio station
CKLN-FM
CKLN-FM was a community radio station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
From 1983 to 2011, CKLN Radio Inc. was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission as a campus-community FM radio station affiliated with Ry ...
and also a member of its board of directors.
After graduating, Bouchard worked as the morning host on
CJDC-AM in
Dawson Creek, British Columbia
Dawson Creek is a city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The municipality of had a population of 12,978 in 2016. Dawson Creek derives its name from the creek of the same name that runs through the community. The creek was named after G ...
from 2013 to 2015 when he went to
Dubai
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to work co-hosting the afternoon drive show on English-language radio station
Channel 4 FM
104.8 Channel 4 FM is the first English-language radio station in the United Arab Emirates
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for two years. Returning to Ontario, he worked as a fill-in announcer at
Rock 95 in
Barrie, Ontario
Barrie is a city in Central Ontario, Canada, about north of Toronto. The city is within Simcoe County and located along the shores of Kempenfelt Bay. Although it is physically in the county, Barrie is politically independent. The city is par ...
and then at
Q107 in Toronto until moving to
sister station
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Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
CFNY in 2018.
References
Canadian radio hosts
Living people
Toronto Metropolitan University alumni
1991 births
Canadian TikTokers
Canadian podcasters
Canadian video bloggers
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