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Bill Watters
William Wayne Watters (born June 29, 1943) is a Canadian sports media personality and former Assistant General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs. College career Watters was a fullback and linebacker with the Toronto Varsity Blues football team from 1961 through 1964. He was a team co-captain and league All-Star at linebacker in both 1963 and 1964. In his final season (1964), he received the Johnny Copp Trophy as the team's Most Valuable Player. Watters also was a member of the Wrestling Blues for three seasons (1961–62, 62–63, 63–64) and practiced regularly with the Varsity Blues men's ice hockey team, although he saw limited action in league play. He earned a total of three First Colours and five Second Colours, and served on the UTAA Men's Athletic Directorate in 1963–64. Professional sports career Watters was selected second overall by the Toronto Argonauts in the 1964 CFL draft but chose not to play professional football after he was cut due to a knee injury. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orillia
Orillia is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is in Simcoe County between Lake Couchiching and Lake Simcoe. Although it is geographically located within Simcoe County, the city is a single-tier municipality. It is part of the Huronia region of Central Ontario. The population in 2021 was 33,411. It was incorporated as a village in 1867, but the history of what is today the City of Orillia dates back at least several thousand years. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of fishing by the Huron and Iroquois peoples in the area over 4,000 years ago, and of sites used by Aboriginal peoples for hundreds of years for trading, hunting, and fishing. Known as the "Sunshine City", the city's large waterfront attracts many tourists to the area every year, as do a number of annual festivals and other cultural attractions. While the area's largest employer is Casino Rama, overall economic activity in Orillia is a mixture of many different industries including manufacturing, government services, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFL Draft
The CFL Draft (also known as the CFL Canadian Draft, CFL College Draft or the Canadian College Draft) is an annual sports draft in which the teams of the Canadian Football League (CFL) select eligible Canadian Football League#Players and compensation, Canadian/non-import players, typically from the ranks of U Sports football or National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA college football. Member clubs make selections based on the reverse order of the previous year's standings, with the team with the worst record being awarded the first selection, the Grey Cup runner-up getting the second-to-last selection and the Grey Cup champion selecting last. The draft is held once every year, approximately six weeks prior to the start of the upcoming season (typically late April or early May). Since 2014 CFL season, 2014, U Sports players become eligible for the CFL Draft three years after completing their first year of eligibility at university. Additionally, NCAA and NAIA players are elig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. * January 11 ** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China. ** Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City. * January 13 – Anti-Nazi protests in Sofia result in 200 arrests and 36 executions. * January 14 – January 24, 24 – WWII: Casablanca Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud of the Free French forces meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, to plan the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlene Bynon
Arlene Bynon is a Canadian television and radio broadcaster, formerly an afternoon talk radio host on AM 640 in Toronto, Ontario. She has also cohosted an international talk radio show with American broadcaster John LeBoutillier. Prior to joining AM 640, Bynon hosted an eponymous daytime talk show on Global from 1990 to 2001. Previously, after working at CJRN in Niagara Falls in the 1970s, she was a news broadcaster and host on CFTR-AM and CHFI-FM in the 1980s and 1990s hosting newsmagazines ''Sunday, Sunday'' and then ''Chronicle''. Her last show on AM 640 was on January 29, 2013. She is currently heard on Sirius XM Canada's Canada Talks channel."SiriusXM Canada and Postmedia Announce New Daily Show". Reuters Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was estab ..., May 8, 2015. Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Time Sports
''Prime Time Sports'' was a sports radio talk show produced from the studios of CJCL, ''Sportsnet 590 The Fan'', in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The show was hosted by Bob McCown until June 21, 2019 when McCown left the show. After his departure, the show was hosted by Jeff Blair, with Stephen Brunt or Richard Deitsch serving as co-hosts until its final show on October 11, 2019. The program was simulcast on CJCL's sister cable networks Sportsnet, Sportsnet One and Sportsnet 360. History The show was first broadcast on October 2, 1989 as a syndicated sports radio talk show from 6:10 pm – 7:00 pm EST with Bob McCown as the host and Bill Watters as co-host. Newspaper columnist Jim Hunt later became co-host of the program, after Watters left to become assistant general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs. When CJCL changed their format to all-sports radio in 1992, ''Prime Time Sports'' became the station's afternoon drive show, while also being syndicated nationwide. In 1993, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Derringer (commentator)
John Derringer (born John Hayes on September 21, 1962) is a former Canadian radio personality. Though he worked in several markets in the 1980s and 90s, he's best known for his long association with CILQ-FM (Q107) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, initially from 1984 to 1993, and again from 2000 until 2022. Derringer lives in nearby Aurora, Ontario, Aurora. He hosted a weekday morning show, ''Derringer In The Morning'', until it was suspended in May 2022. Throughout the early 2000s, Derringer's opinions also appeared in the form of a regular Columnist, column in the ''Toronto Sun''. As of 2016, Derringer has been named "Radio Personality of the Year" by Canadian Music Week 10 times, and has been named "Favourite Toronto Radio Personality" by the ''Sun'', ''Eye Weekly'', ''Now Magazine'' and ''Top Choice Awards''. In March 2012, Derringer received the Allan Waters Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame at Canadian Music Week in To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CILQ-FM
CILQ-FM (107.1 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, known as ''Q107''. The station broadcasts a mainstream rock format and is owned by Corus Entertainment. CILQ's studios are in the Corus Quay building on Dockside Drive at Toronto's Harbourfront neighbourhood. CILQ-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 40,000 watts. The transmitter is atop the CN Tower, with backup facilities at First Canadian Place. CILQ is also available through streaming audio, and is simulcast on Bell Satellite TV channel 954, and Shaw Direct channel 864. History CILQ signed on the air at 9 a.m. on May 22, 1977. The first song played on the station was "Hard Rock Town" by Murray McLauchlan, although the station officially signed on with Deodato's "Also Sprach Zarathustra". CILQ debuted playing album rock, part of the numerous "Superstars" formatted stations developed by programme consultant Lee Abrams, heard in many large U.S. radio markets. The playlist consisted of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFMJ
CFIQ (640 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Richmond Hill, Ontario, and serving Greater Toronto. The station airs a talk format and is known as ''640 Toronto''. It is owned by Corus Entertainment with radio studios and offices in the Corus Quay Building at 25 Dockside Drive in Toronto. CFIQ is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for Canadian AM stations. To protect other stations on 640 AM, it must use a directional antenna. Although it is licensed to a suburban community north of the city, its transmitter is about 60 kilometers (38 miles) south of Toronto. CFIQ's eight-tower array is in the town of Lincoln, in Niagara Region, near the southeast corner of Greenlane and Merritt Road. This location allows the station's signal to cover a large part of Southern Ontario beyond Greater Toronto, as well as Western New York state during the day and at night. History Early years On July 1, 1957, the station first signed on as CJRH. It was a 500-watt station, broadcastin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bill Watters Show
''The Bill Watters Show'' is a former sports talk radio program on CFMJ AM640 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Hosted by Bill Watters and Jim Ralph, it aired weekdays from 4:00pm to 7:00pm. As of July 18, 2011 it is no longer listed as a regular program on AM 640, and has been replaced by other programming. Hosts The program was hosted by Bill Watters and Jim Ralph. Watters is a former NHL agent, scout, and the former assistant General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs. He also appears on Hockey Central on Rogers Sportsnet as well as ''Leafs Lunch'' on CFMJ AM640. The program also featured hockey "insiders" Darren Dreger, Scott Morrison and Christine Simpson Christine Laura Simpson (born October 5, 1964) is a Canadian television personality, best known as a hockey reporter, host and interviewer. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Family Simpson's mother Mario .... Format ''The Bill Watters Show'' focused heavily on hockey, specifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogers Sportsnet
Sportsnet is a Canadian English-language sports specialty channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media. It was established in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet, a joint venture between CTV, Liberty Media, and Rogers Media. CTV parent Bell Globemedia then was required to divest its stake in the network following its 2001 acquisition of competing network TSN. Rogers then became the sole owner of Sportsnet in 2004 after it bought the remaining minority stake that was held by Fox. The Sportsnet license comprises four 24-hour programming services; Sportsnet was originally licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) as a category A service, operating as a group of regional sports networks offering programming tailored to each feed's region (in contrast to TSN, which was licensed at the time to operate as a national sports service, and could only offer limited regional opt-outs). Since 2011, the service has operated under deregulated category C licensing, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Presenter
In Broadcasting of sports events, sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as sports announcer or sportscaster) provides a real time (media), real-time commentary of a game or event, usually during a live television, live broadcast, traditionally delivered in the historical present tense. Radio was the first medium for sports broadcasts, and radio commentators must describe all aspects of the action to listeners who cannot see it for themselves. In the case of televised sports coverage, commentators are usually presented as a voiceover, with images of the contest shown on viewers' screens and sounds of the action and spectators heard in the background. Television commentators are rarely shown on screen during an event, though some networks choose to feature their announcers on camera either before or after the contest or briefly during breaks in the action. Types of commentators Main/play-by-play commentator The ''main commentator'', also called the ''play-by-play'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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