by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Norm Marshall got his feet wet as a teen-aged broadcaster in St Catherines, Ontario. He then moved on to radio stations in Hamilton, Montreal, and Windsor. Norm broke into television as sports director of CHCH in Hamilton in 1954 then left to free-lance as a Canadian...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Fred got his start in broadcasting in 1951 at Toronto radio station CKFH but made his mark nationally when he joined the CBC in 1957. He worked in both radio and television and covered virtually every sport played in Canada. Fred’s broadcasting career spanned three...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Jim spent his teen years in Winnipeg, Manitoba where he used to sneak into Osborne Stadium to watch the Blue Bombers. He cut his journalistic teeth in Victoria, British Columbia with the Colonial before moving to the big time in...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Ernie Afaganis, also known as “The Greek”, started covering the Edmonton Eskimos for private radio in 1953. He moved to CBC-TV in 1963 and until 1980 was the network’s host for their Western league and play-off games. Afaganis handled a...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, George Kent produced western football for CBC-TV from 1958 to 1969. The first western telecast came from Mewata Stadium in Calgary which pitted the Calgary Stampeders against the BC Lions on August 18, 1958. Kent introduced the telestrator...
