Ryan Rishaug (born April 26, 1977) is a sports broadcaster with TSN. He is currently the Edmonton Bureau Reporter for SportsCentre, TSN's flagship sports news program, and hosts ''The Morning Mandate with Ryan Rishaug'' every weekday at 8:30 a.m. on TSN 1260.

Early life

Rishaug was born in Sherwood Park,

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. Before entering sports broadcasting, he played 47 games in the WHL hockey league, at right wing on the

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. He attended the Broadcast Communications program at the

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Broadcasting career

Rishaug began his broadcasting career in 1998, as a sports reporter at

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in Kamloops,

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. He also worked as a sports anchor and reporter for CTV owned-and-operated station Sudbury-based

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from 1999 to 2000 and as a sports anchor for

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owned-and-operated station CFSK-TV in

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in 2000. Rishaug joined CTV's CFRN in 2000, serving as the station's weekend sports anchor before moving to the weekday 6 p.m. sports anchor desk. He also appeared on TSN as a sideline reporter for the network's

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Friday Night Football telecasts in 2003. In 2004, Rishaug was named TSN's new Edmonton reporter for SportsCentre, after veteran TSN reporter Ken Chilibeck retired from the position. He reports on the

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, the

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, and any other sports from the Edmonton area. He also currently hosts ''The Morning Mandate with Ryan Rishaug'' every weekday at 8:30 a.m. on TSN 1260, a segment on ''The Nielson Show'' hosted by TSN's Dustin Nielson. In April 2019, Rishaug reported and fronted the TSN original documentary ''29 Forever'', which tells the story of the 2017-18 Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team in honour of the one-year anniversary of the 2018

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References

External links

Rishaug Bio at TSN
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rishaug, Ryan 1977 births Living people British Columbia Institute of Technology alumni Canadian Football League announcers Canadian people of Norwegian descent Canadian television sportscasters Ice hockey people from Alberta Kamloops Blazers players National Hockey League broadcasters Sportspeople from Sherwood Park Canadian ice hockey right wingers