Did you know…
- Off the Record host Michael Landsberg has been with TSN since Day 1
- Before working at TSN, Gino Reda was a cook, John Lu was a financial advisor, TSN’s President Phil King was an accountant.
- In just one week more than 20,000 Twitter users signed up to follow TSN’s Darren Dreger.
- The term “TSN Turning Point” has become part of the Canadian lexicon.
- TSN’s Vic Rauter has called more than 2,000 curling draws. He has also done play-by-play for auto racing, soccer, field hockey, squash, tennis and bowling along with reports on ice fishing and sheep shearing for SportsCentre.
- TSN’s primate prognosticator Maggie the Monkey retired after the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs after correctly predicting that the Pittsburgh Penguins would the Stanley Cup – it was first time she ever corrected picked a Stanley cup winner.
- SportsCentre anchor Jennifer Hedger went to Afghanistan to visit Canadian soldiers in 2007.
- Over the past 5 years, TSN’s Hockey Insider Bob McKenzie has an 85% accuracy rate in correctly selecting the Top 30 players taken in the NHL draft.
- There is close to a foot height difference between TSN co-anchors Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole.
- NHL on TSN analyst Pierre McGuire was cut after being hit by puck while calling a game from between the benches.
- During the off season CFL on TSN analysts keep busy. Matt Dunigan works for a cooking show and Jock Climie is a lawyer in Ottawa.
- James Duthie never really used to date Anna Kournikova – we don’t know who started that rumour.