Bryan Hall (sportscaster)

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Bryan Hall
Born (1934-08-19) August 19, 1934 (age 89)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Show The Bryan Hall Show
Station(s) CHED AM
Time slot Monday – Friday
3:00pm – 4:30pm MST
Style Sports talk
Country Canada
Spouse(s) Lilian Edith Hall (c.1979–2011; her death)

Bryan Hall (born August 19, 1934) nicknamed "Hallsy", is a Canadian radio presenter and retired radio play-by-play broadcaster for the Edmonton Eskimos on 630 CHED in Edmonton, Alberta.

Hall was born on August 19, 1934[1][2] in Toronto, Ontario.[3] His father was a lawyer, who died when Hall was 9, and his mother a nurse.[4] 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.[4] 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 one of the first open-line sports talk radio show in Edmonton.[5] 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.[4][6]

After over 40 years of covering play-by-play for Edmonton Eskimos games, Hall retired in 2009.[7] During his play-by-play career, he also did play-by-play for the Edmonton Oilers, Edmonton Oil Kings, and Edmonton Flyers.[8] The media centre in Commonwealth Stadium was named after Hall when he retired in 2009, being succeeded by Morley Scott.[9] Though retired from doing play-by-play, Hall continues to host his afternoon sports daily talk show and the morning show on CHED.[10][11] Hall is also known for doing radio advertisements on CHED for local Tony Roma's, Crosstown Motors, and Sorrentinos.[4] He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.[5]

Hall was married to Lil for over 30 years. He enjoys watching Coronation Street and National Geographic TV shows and is a big fan of various genres of music - blues, classical, rock, and jazz.[4] His wife, Lil died on May 28, 2011, aged 74.[12]

Broadcasting positions

References

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External links

  • Bryan Hall on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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