Following an excellent 50 year career, Brian Williams is retiring from broadcasting. Brian has worked in radio at CHUM and CFRB and then on television with CBC and most recently CTV / TSN. I'll never forget the 90 minutes I spent chatting with Brian in my basement studio. I believe Dave

I was chatting with Jeff Hutcheson when I learned Rod Black was no longer with Bell Media. Jeff Hutcheson worked with Rod Black on Canada AM, and we discussed Rod's announcement in episode 931 of Toronto Mike'd. 🥲♥️🎙Sad to say goodbye today to my friends at CTV and TSN but

The other day, I wrote about Jim Hughson's retirement. After 42 years, he's decided to call it quits and will no longer call NHL games for Sportsnet. News broke yesterday about two other changes at Sportsnet. On the television side, Leo Rautins will not be back as Raptors analyst alongside

Jim Hughson, who has been calling hockey games since the early 80s, has announced his retirement from broadcasting. Last season, he only called home games for the Vancouver Canucks. After 42 years, Hall of Fame PxP commentator Jim Hughson has announced his retirement from broadcasting. As one of Canada'

Two weeks after Pooja Handa announced she was leaving CP24 Breakfast for another opportunity, Gurdeep Ahluwalia has made the exact same announcement. Gurdeep Ahluwalia has been with Bell Media stations since 2009. Here's an excerpt from his CP24 bio, sure to be removed shortly. A familiar and trusted face in

Pooja Handa had been a CP24 anchor since 2008, and in April 2011 she became a co-host of CP24 Breakfast Weekend, before moving to the weekday edition of CP24 Breakfast. You might have heard Steve Anthony's exit interview in which he boasted CP24 Breakfast had surpassed Breakfast Television in the

Bell Media issued a press release today announcing that Michael Landsberg is leaving TSN after 37 years. TORONTO (July 30, 2021) – TSN announced today that Michael Landsberg is departing TSN 1050 Toronto, after five years as a daily host with the station. Landsberg most recently appeared as co-host of the

Hugh Burrill's last day on The Fan 590's morning show is this Friday. He's leaving to pursue a communications role at Sporting Life Canada / Golf Town. 🚨 I'm using a flashing light emoji so it must be BIG NEWS 🚨 This is my last week at @FAN590 After a wonderful

It was only a matter of time before Sportsnet took their televison play-by-play of Blue Jays baseball and put it on the radio. Here I am early this morning calling it on Hebsy on Sports, well before any announcement was made. Here's an excerpt of the press release from Rogers.

This is day three of the Bell Media GTA cuts... if you're just joining us, here's parts one and two: NEWSTALK 1010 CutsCTV Toronto News CutsI take no pleasure in this reporting. It's not my job, it doesn't make me any money, and I feel awful for everyone affected. But,

Yesterday I reported on Bell Media cuts to NEWSTALK 1010, and today I have the displeasure of sharing the news Tom Brown and Anwar Knight are no longer on CTV Toronto. They're the two on-screen dismissals I'm aware of, but the vast majority of cuts are to people who work

Bell Media is a federally regulated company who just received $122 million in federal government pandemic labour subsidies. And they're in the midst of a significant labour purge. Today, the entire NEWSTALK news department was axed. Some names are Russ Courtney, Haley Cooper, Claude Feig and Lucas Meyer. And at

Tim Micallef and Sid Seixeiro became a duo at The Score, and took their show to The Fan 590 in 2011. The radio show was simulcast on television, and in 2015 it became a television show that only aired on television. In 2019, that television show was simulcast on 590

Caroline Szwed has announced that she's left Sportsnet. Although she didn't share specifics, she did reference her car accident of September 2019 as a contributing factor. Hey guys, I just wanted to jump on here and give you a heads up that earlier this week was my last day with

On January 19, 2010, I wrote about mass firings at Citytv. The two biggest names to be let go that day were Anne Mroczkowski and Laura DiBattista, but there were others, including Pam Seatle. Only Pam Seatle was quickly rehired and continued as a CityNews reporter and anchor on Citytv

I just finished recording episode 200 of Hebsy on Sports with Mark Hebscher, and he finished a rather eventful discussion with a couple of Canadian sports media updates. You can see us recording episode 200 here. In Hebsy's words... Dave Randorf did not have his contract renewed at Sportsnet. This

Following tonight's NHL Draft Lottery, Bob McKenzie enters the next phase of his professional life, leaving the day-to-day grind for semi-retirement. It's not a full retirements because he'll still be doing TSN's draft rankings three times a year, he'll still be covering the World Junior Hockey Championships, and he'll still