Ron MacLean

Ronald Joseph MacLean ( born April 12, 1960 in Zweibrücken, Germany ) is a Canadian sports journalist at the television station CBC and discussed mainly the sport of ice hockey in the program Hockey Night in Canada.

Career

Ron MacLean was born when his father as an officer of the Royal Canadian Air Force was stationed in Germany and 14 months after MacLean's birth they returned to Canada, where he grew up in the provinces of Nova Scotia and Alberta.

1978 MacLean began his career with a part-time job as a radio announcer and presenter at local radio and television stations CKRD. Six years later he was hired by the independent television station CFAC Calgary-based, to moderate the transmission of the matches of the local NHL teams, the Calgary Flames. In short, he also appeared in the national news as spokesman for the sports news.

In 1986 he moved finally to the national television station CBC, where he initially presented the coverage of the games of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL and then the Head Moderator for the nationwide transmission of primetime broadcast Hockey Night in Canada has been a year. Being the most popular part of the program, the Coach's Corner segment, the MacLean since 1987 hosted along with former NHL coach Don Cherry and which analyzed the current games as well as events in the league for the part is considered to be very controversial.

During his career at CBC MacLean is also active off the NHL in TV broadcasts. So since 1988 it belongs to the moderator team of the CBC at the Olympic Summer and Winter Games and participated several times in the transmissions of World Athletics Championships with.

His involvement at CBC was in 2002 almost to an end when the transmitter and MacLean could first agree on a new contract and MacLean threatened to switch to another channel. The reactions of the media and the audience eventually led to yet an agreement could be reached.

For his work, MacLean has won five Gemini Awards, including three awards as best host of a sports show.

Arbitrator

Ron MacLean was active alongside his work in television as a referee in the amateur field. He led games in junior and senior level as well as in university leagues in Canada. On 29 September 2006, he experienced the peak of his referee career as an NHL preseason game between the Buffalo Sabres and the Pittsburgh Penguins headed. Meanwhile, MacLean has finished but his refereeing.

Awards

  • Gemini Award 1992 Best Sports Reporter
  • 1994 Best Sports Reporter
  • 2004 Best host of a sports show
  • 2006 Best host of a sports show
  • 2007 Best host of a sports show
Summer Olympic Games Winter Olympic Games
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