Darren Dutchyshen, the longtime television sports anchor with Canada’s The Sports Network, has died. He was 57 years of age.
“He passed as he was surrounded by his closest loved ones. His sharp wit remained until his final moments, classically delivering plenty of jokes — most of them pretty good and all of them inappropriate,” the Dutchyshen family said in a statement on Thursday.
Tsn, where Dutchyshen had been host of its Sportscentre show since 1995, did not give an immediate word on the cause or place of death for the popular sportscaster. But Dutchyshen first announced he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2021 on X, formerly Twitter. That forced him to sharply reduce his on-air duties at Tsn.
“Darren Dutchyshen was a legend of Canadian sports broadcasting, a great teammate and an essential part of Tsn for the last three decades,” Stewart Johnston, senior vp, sales & sports at Bell Media,...
“He passed as he was surrounded by his closest loved ones. His sharp wit remained until his final moments, classically delivering plenty of jokes — most of them pretty good and all of them inappropriate,” the Dutchyshen family said in a statement on Thursday.
Tsn, where Dutchyshen had been host of its Sportscentre show since 1995, did not give an immediate word on the cause or place of death for the popular sportscaster. But Dutchyshen first announced he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2021 on X, formerly Twitter. That forced him to sharply reduce his on-air duties at Tsn.
“Darren Dutchyshen was a legend of Canadian sports broadcasting, a great teammate and an essential part of Tsn for the last three decades,” Stewart Johnston, senior vp, sales & sports at Bell Media,...
- 5/16/2024
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Toronto -- Like a general keeping his army working, moving and communicating, Canadian sports broadcaster Rick Chisholm is directing traffic among 1,400 production staff and crew in the throes of preparation for the Vancouver Olympics.
As executive vp broadcasting for Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, comprising 12 Canuck networks, Chisholm knows the Feb. 12-28 Games, with so much splash and spectacle in Canada's own backyard, could well become the most-watched event in Canadian TV history.
"The world's watching your city and your country, and you want to make sure your country represents itself well," he said.
Canadian expertise in producing hockey, figure skating, curling and short track speed skating telecasts means Chisholm his team will provide core feeds of those marquee events to the Ioc's Olympic Broadcasting Service, the host broadcaster for the 2010 Olympics.
That has Chisholm overseeing from his base at the Ioc's International Broadcast Center (Ibc) in Vancouver six standing...
As executive vp broadcasting for Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, comprising 12 Canuck networks, Chisholm knows the Feb. 12-28 Games, with so much splash and spectacle in Canada's own backyard, could well become the most-watched event in Canadian TV history.
"The world's watching your city and your country, and you want to make sure your country represents itself well," he said.
Canadian expertise in producing hockey, figure skating, curling and short track speed skating telecasts means Chisholm his team will provide core feeds of those marquee events to the Ioc's Olympic Broadcasting Service, the host broadcaster for the 2010 Olympics.
That has Chisholm overseeing from his base at the Ioc's International Broadcast Center (Ibc) in Vancouver six standing...
- 2/5/2010
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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