Portfolio: Media
KELLY MOORE
Kelly Moore began his broadcasting career in 1976 at CFVR in Abbotsford, B.C. and by the fall of that year he had his first sports reporting job in Kamloops, B.C. He'd soon take on the play-by-play of the Western Hockey League Kamloops Blazer games which he handled for 10 years, and included calling the Blazer's...
RON OAKES
Ron Oakes was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he got his radio start with radio station CKRC before broadcasting minor-league hockey games and the Blue Bombers for CJOB. He later would do radio sports reporting for the CBC. Oakes was the voice of several teams in the NHL, WHA, and minor league hockey, including a...
BOB HOLLIDAY
Bob Holiday started his journalism career in the late Sixties working for the Lance community newspaper covering the MJHL St. Boniface Saints, the CASHL St. Boniface Mohawks and minor hockey in St. Boniface. He would eventually step into the timekeeper's booth for the Saints and Mohawks for six years which led to a Head Official...
Vic Grant
Grant's career began at the Winnipeg Tribune in 1964 when he was hired as a sports writer and copyboy. From 1967 to 1974, he was a full time sports writer for the Trib. In 1972, he got the sporting world scoop of the year, reporting that Bobby Hull would join the Winnipeg Jets as playing...
Young, Scott
Born in Cypress River, Manitoba, Young began his writing career in 1936 when he joined the Winnipeg Free Press. He wrote a few well-received juvenile novels, one was Scrubs on Skates and then he branched out into factual sports information. He left Winnipeg in 1940 for Toronto where he joined the Canadian Press, later Maclean's...
McKenzie, Ken
Born in Winnipeg, McKenzie started his long and stellar hockey-writing career at the age of 17 with the Winnipeg Free Press. After World War II, he was hired by the National Hockey League as its publicity director. In 1947 McKenzie co-founded The Hockey News with W.V. Cote. his other contributions to the NHL include its...
Frayne, Trent (Bill)
Born in Brandon, Trent Frayne was better known as "Bill" to his old friends. He began covering sports as a teenager for the Brandon Sun. Then he came to Winnipeg and joined the Canadian Press. In the late 1930s he accepted a position with the sports department of the Winnipeg Tribune. Frayne went to Toronto...
Coleman, Jim
Born in Winnipeg, Coleman started his newspaper career with the Winnipeg Tribune and became one of Canada's most celebrated sports columnists with a national column for all Southam newspapers. He was a regular member of the NHL Hot Stove League radio crew and the senior states man of sports writers. He authored a best-seller Hockey...
Keilback, Curt
Curt KeilbackDOB - 1948 Born in Brandon, Curt Keilback did his first hockey play-by-play at age 11. As part of a Minor Hockey Week in Canada promotion, his father Jim Keilback allowed him to call a period of a Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League game. He knew then he wanted to make it a career. His...
Picken, Bob
Bob PIcken grew up in Winnipeg's North End and while in high school got his first chance at sports reporting with the Winnipeg Citizen where he covered midget and juvenile hockey. He then was recruited to serve as secretary of the Winnipeg midget hockey league where he spent five seasons. In 1965 he joined CJOB...
Cartman, Mo
Born in Portage la Prairie, Cartman made a significant contribution to the newspaper industry and sport in Portage la Prairie and surrounding districts for close to 60 years. As a sport reporter, he supported hockey at all levels. He loved the Portage Terriers Junior Hockey Club which he followed, wrote about and supported for more...
Wittman, Don
Born in Hebert, Saskatchewan, Wittman began a broadcasting career that spanned five decades in 1956 in Saskatoon. He signed on with CBC-TV in 1961. Wittman has been a play-by-play commentator for Hockey Night in Canada and has broadcast many Stanley Cup series. His career also included NHL All-Star Games, the 1987 Rendez-Vous Series, WHA games...
Wells, Jack (Cactus Jack)
Born in Moose Jaw, "Cactus Jack" was one of Canada's best known sportscasters. He started his radio career in Saskatoon in 1937 and later worked at CJRC and CKY radio, CBC-TV, CJAY and CKY-TV in Winnipeg. He also wrote freelance sports columns for the Winnipeg Tribune. He was first to broadcast curling play-by-play at the...
Smith, Maurice
Born in London, England, Maurice Smith was Sports Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press from 1944-1976 and a most ardent supporter of hockey. He was the first President of the Manitoba Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association and served on the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame Selection Committee in the early 1980's. Maurice Smith was also named...
Sigurdson, Hal
Born in Churchbridge, Saskatchewan. Hal Sigurdson was with the Winnipeg Free Press for some 40 years and covered junior and senior hockey, the Western Hockey League and the World Hockey Association. He was the Sports Editor with the Free Press. He wrote the popular series Down Memory Lane and served on the Selection Committe of...
Nicolson, Ken "Friar"
Born in Fort William, Ontario, Nicolson started his broadcasting career in 1960. He was named sports director at CJOB in 1969 and began play-byplay broadcasting in 1972 with the WHA Winnipeg Jets. He moved to CKY in 1982 and did NHL colour commentary. Previous to the Jets, `the Friar' broadcast hockey in the OHA, WCJL,...
Matheson, Jack
Born in Winnipeg, Matheson began a 35-year newspaper career in 1946 with the Winnipeg Tribune. In 1959 he became the Sports Editor, a position he held until the Trib ceased operations in 1980. "Matty" covered all sports, including hockey, for the Tribune, the Winnipeg Sun and several special interest papers. Jack Matheson also enjoyed a...
MacPherson, Stewart
Born in Winnipeg, MacPherson started as a hockey referee and goal judge, and covered minor hockey for the Winnipeg Tribune. He went to England and started hockey broadcasting for the BBC in 1937. As a war correspondent, showman, sports commentator and author, his rise to fame in the UK included the Twenty Questions quiz show,...
Deardon, Eddie
Born in Winnipeg, Eddie Dearden began a long sportswriting career in the early 1950's with the Winnipeg Tribune. He covered junior hockey at the Amphitheatre and Olympic rinks during his career. Dearden also covered the professional ranks starting in 1974 with the WHA Winnipeg Jets. Dearden was the colorman for Jets' broadcasts on radio with...
Davis, Reyn
Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Davis began his newspaper career in his hometown with the Herald and then spent five years with the Regina Leader Post. He then went to the Chatham Daily News before joining the Winnipeg Free Press in 1968. Reyn Davis covered the Winnipeg Junior Jets from 1969 and then the professional...
Crawford, Howard "Krug"
Date of birth - 1892 Born in Brandon. From 1919 until he passed away in 1959, Howard "Krug" Crawford served the Brandon Sun well as a news reporter, sports editor, news editor and managing editor. He was noted for his positive, non-critical, and encouraging style of reporting. He was also an excellent baseball pitcher and...
Beck, Dallis
Born in Brandon, Dallis who was also known as "Knobby" began a 40 year career as a sportswriter in Saskatoon, Kitchener-Waterloo, Calgary, Vancouver and Prince George before finally landing in Winnipeg. He was first employed at the old Winnipeg Tribune and from September of 1968 until 1990 covered the sports scene for the Winnipeg Free...
Allan, Arthur Carlyon
Born in Winnipeg, Arthur Carlyon Allan played junior hockey for the Kenora Thistles. He was Sports Editor of the Winnipeg Tribune (late 1940s to mid-1950s). He authored Grey Cup or Bust and Grey Cup Cavalcade. He was City Editor before moving to sports where his column One Man's Opinion was widely read. Allan supported all...
Oake, Scott
Scott Oake was a pre-med student at Memorial University of Newfoundland, when he volunteered at the campus radio station. Broadcasting quickly became his passion, and he decided to pursue a career in the radio and television field. After working part-time at CBC St. John's, he was hired full-time by the network in 1974. Relocating to...
