Lionel Duval

Lionel Duval (February 11, 1933 – September 30, 2016) was a Canadian sports journalist and long time presenter at La Soirée du hockey.

Biography

Born in the Estrie region of Québec, Lionel Duval graduated from École supérieure de Hull in the Outaouais region. He began his career as a radio broadcaster in the 1950s at CKCH.

In the late 1950s, he was the play-by-play announcer for the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens hockey games.

Duval was hired by Radio-Canada in 1961 in the Outaouais and Ottawa region. One of his first gigs was as the host of Hebdo Sports, a local sports television programme.

In 1964, he was transferred to the Montréal Radio-Canada television station.

In 1990, the Québec's voting public award him a MetroStar as their favorite host of a sports programme.

Lionel Duval, aged 60, retired in 1993, after more than 40 years in sports journalism, including 32 years at Radio-Canada. He died of complications from Parkinson's disease in 2016.