Bryan Hall (sportscaster), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Bryan Hall (sportscaster)

Canadian radio presenter

Date of Birth: 19-Aug-1934

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Profession: radio personality

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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About Bryan Hall (sportscaster)

  • Bryan Hall (born August 19, 1934) nicknamed "Hallsy", is a Canadian radio and television personality and retired radio play-by-play broadcaster for the Edmonton Eskimos on 630w CHED in Edmonton, Alberta. Hall was born on August 19, 1934 in Toronto, Ontario.
  • His father was a lawyer, who died when Hall was 9, and his mother a nurse.
  • Hall got his first broadcasting job at the age of 19, after moving to Edmonton, at CKUA where he did news, a jazz show, and sports.
  • At the suggestion of a columnist for the Edmonton Journal, Hall also took up a vacant sportscaster job at CHED, which he held from 1955 to 1962.
  • In 1962, Hall moved to Toronto to take up a job covering sports with CHUM, but quickly moved back to Edmonton 3 years later, this time, back to CJCA, where he did play-by-play for the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos with the network from 1965 to 1993.
  • During his time with CJCA, he also pioneered the first open-line sports talk radio show in Edmonton.
  • In the decade of the 70s, Hall worked as a racetrack announcer at Edmonton Northlands Park calling over 10,000 thoroughbred races.
  • When CJCA ceased broadcasting operations in 1993, Hall moved back to CHED to take up the position of sports director - continuing to do play-by-play of Edmonton Eskimos games until 2009. After 45 years of play-by-play for Edmonton Eskimos games, Hall retired in 2009.
  • During his play-by-play career, he also did play-by-play for the Edmonton Oilers, Edmonton Oil Kings, and Edmonton Flyers.
  • The media centre, The Bryan Hall Media Centre, in Commonwealth Stadium was named after Hall when he retired in 2009.
  • Though retired from doing play-by-play, Hall, in his 65th year of broadcasting, currently does 14 daily shows in the morning on CHED, I News and Global Television.
  • Hall is also known for doing radio advertisements on CHED for local Christenson Developments, Crosstown Motors, and Lay-z-boy Furniture He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.

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