{{Short description|Canadian radio DJ and internet personality}} '''Kolter Bouchard''' (born 1991) is a Canadian radio, online personality, and digital content producer based in Toronto. He co-hosted the afternoon drive program on CFNY-FM (102.1 The Edge) from late 2018 until March 2024, first with Meredith Geddes and from May 2023 with Casey-Jo Loos.<ref>{{cite news |title=Casey-Jo Loos heads to 102.1 the Edge |url=https://broadcastdialogue.com/casey-jo-loos-heads-to-102-1-the-edge/ |access-date=February 17, 2024 |work=Broadcast Dialogue |date=May 31, 2023}}</ref> Bouchard was diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2020 when he was in his late twenties and is in remission.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ward |first1=Katherine |title=Toronto-area radio host recounts cancer journey during COVID-19 pandemic |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/7586612/corus-radio-host-cancer-journey-coronavirus/ |access-date=February 17, 2024 |work=Global News |date=January 19, 2021}}</ref>
Bouchard left Corus Entertainment 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Weekly Briefing |url=https://broadcastdialogue.com/twb-rsa-040424/ |access-date=April 4, 2024 |work=Broadcast Dialogue |date=April 4, 2024}}</ref> He and his wife, Dominique Bouchard, co-founded digital production agency Symal Creative<ref>https://www.symalcreative.com/</ref> and co-host a relationships podcast, ''Playing House''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Playing House | url=https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/playing-house/id1717474846 }}</ref>
He is a graduate of the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University).<ref>{{cite news |title=Radio host Kolter Bouchard on surviving cancer and a pandemic with his wife by his side |url=https://streetsoftoronto.com/with-rogers-outages-and-air-canada-delays-were-thinking-these-two-should-merge/ |access-date=February 17, 2024 |work=Streets of Toronto |date=July 11, 2022}}</ref> While at Ryerson, he was a host on campus radio station CKLN-FM and also a member of its board of directors.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ryerson Radio's internet makeover |url=https://theeyeopener.com/2012/09/ryerson-radios-internet-makeover/ |access-date=February 17, 2024 |work=The Eyeopener |date=September 25, 2012}}</ref>
After graduating, Bouchard worked as the morning host on CJDC-AM in Dawson Creek, British Columbia from 2013 to 2015 when he went to Dubai to work co-hosting the afternoon drive show on English-language radio station Channel 4 FM for two years. Returning to Ontario, he worked as a fill-in announcer at Rock 95 in Barrie, Ontario and then at Q107 in Toronto until moving to sister station CFNY in 2018.<ref>{{cite web |title=How Very Kolter Bouchard |url=https://www.soundoffpodcast.com/2019/02/18/how-very-kolter-bouchard |website=Sound Off Podcast |date=19 February 2019 |publisher=Matt Cundill |access-date=March 2, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Broadcast Dialogue – The Podcast: Kolter Bouchard's reinvention |url=https://broadcastdialogue.com/broadcast-dialogue-the-podcast-kolter-bouchards-reinvention/?amp=1 |access-date=January 15, 2025 |work=Broadcast Dialogue |date=August 7, 2024}}</ref>
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