He would become news director of CJMS and the Radiomutuel network in 1985, and in addition became the PM drive show host in 1988.
In 2000, he was hired by the TVA television network for a weekly show consisting of a half-an-hour interview.
The program, simply titled "Arcand", achieved great popularity and lasted until April 2005.
Arcand announced his departure from CKAC in October 2003, and announced he was joining CKOO-FM (now CHMP-FM) a few weeks later as part of that station's new news/talk format, but due to legal requirements he was forced to remain on CKAC until the end of the Spring 2004 BBM ratings period.
He produced in 2005 a documentary called Thieves of Innocence (Les Voleurs d'enfance), which dealt with child abuse in Quebec.