Ric-A-Tic is the brainchild of Richard Dagenais. A registered enterprise, Ric-A-Tic highlights the many creative talents of an exceptionally versatile individual who excels at voice, writing and musical projects.
Born, raised and educated in Montreal, Richard Dagenais began his professional journalism career in 1981, at a community newspaper near his hometown. Shortly after graduating from McGill University in Montreal with a degree in psychology, he began working as editor-in-chief of "The Victory", a small anglophone paper published by Les Editions Blainville-Deux Montagnes. |
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He led the paper for three years before moving on to CFCF Radio in 1984 as an overnight news announcer. A year later, he joined CHUM Quebec, owners of CHOM-FM and CKGM-AM, “The Team 990”.
From June 1985 to February 2002, Richard worked as a news announcer, co-host, reporter, editorialist, interviewer, and show-host on both CHOM-FM and CKGM. He contributed daily reports to the Canada-wide CHUM National Network newscast and CFRA Ottawa.
Over the years, Richard’s had the distinct pleasure of meeting some pretty cool people; not only fellow broadcasters, but some of the interesting people who make this world of ours go round.
To see a list of the guests Richard has interviewed over the course of his broadcasting career and to hear excerpts of some of those conversations, click here.
He worked as a reporter for all five seasons of the CFCF television show “Fighting Back”, which ran from 1990 to 1995. Before being pulled from the schedule, the show thrived on battling bureaucracy, complacency and idiocy, in the name of “the little guy” and lost causes.
In 1996 , Richard hosted a 12-episode business series called “Tradewinds”, which aired on such Canadian networks as CBC Newsworld, TV Ontario, Knowledge, Access, SCN and Air Canada.
After working in Global Television’s Montreal newsroom as fill-in sports anchor and line-up editor, he was hired as the live, on-location reporter for the station’s morning show, “This Morning Live”. For five years he contributed energetic, creative, informative and entertaining reports to the daily morning show. In March 2008, the show was cancelled.
He has worked as a news announcer for Radio Canada International, reported for CNN Radio and covered the jazz festival in Montreal for JazzFM91 in Toronto.
He’s written opinion essays that have been published in The Gazette, Hour, Mirror and Preview Montreal.
He’s worked as an announcer and news and sports writer on “The Team 990”, delivering afternoon news and sports updates on the Montreal affiliate of the all-sports network launched in May 2001.
He speaks English and French and is a member of ACTRA, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema Television and Radio Artists.
As a freelance performer, he narrates documentaries, technical films and information products.
His voice has been heard on commercials for “The Gazette”, Molson Dry and the Canadian Muscular Dystrophy Association. He also sings on a spot for “L’Equipeur”.
He’s had principal and incidental roles in such Cinar animated productions as “Arthur”, “Animal Crackers” and
“City Mouse. Country Mouse”. And he was the voice of the “devil” in Ubi Soft’s on-line game, “Speed Devils”. To see more performance credits, click here.
He's also an accomplished writer, nominated twice for ACTRA National Radio Awards in the category Best Opinion/Commentary Broadcaster. Along with researching, writing and performing weekly commentaries on CHOM-FM for sixteen years, he's written several essays, short stories and children's stories that can also be sampled by clicking here.
As a commercial writer, Richard wrote the copy that appeared on packaging for Humpty Dumpty’s Grainwaves chips.
He also enjoys researching and writing trivia questions and creating games for such radio and television contests as ticket giveaways.
He's a talented musician; a singer, songwriter, drummer, guitarist, who's original and recorded music can be checked-out by clicking here. He sings the Canadian and American anthems for local sports teams. He has performed the anthems for the Montreal Expos, Montreal Alouettes and the ABA’s Montreal Royal.
He also has a jazz trio available for performances.
He plays hockey, tennis, touchfootball, softball, mountain bikes and swims.
He's married and has one child.
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