Ryan Rishaug
Template:Infobox ice hockey player Ryan Rishaug (born May 29, 1977)[1] is a sports broadcaster with TSN. He is currently the Edmonton Bureau Reporter for SportsCentre, TSN's flagship sports news program,[2] and hosts The Morning Mandate with Ryan Rishaug every weekday at 8:35 a.m. on Edmonton Sports Talk and as of 2024, Ryan hosts the GYB podcast with Jason Strudwick and Rob Brown.
Rishaug is a self-described Brony, a male fan of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
Early life
Rishaug was born in Sherwood Park, Alberta.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Before entering sports broadcasting, he played 47 games in the WHL hockey league, at right wing on the Kamloops Blazers.[3] He attended the Broadcast Communications program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.[4]
Broadcasting career
Rishaug began his broadcasting career in 1998, as a sports reporter at CFJC-TV in Kamloops, British Columbia. He also worked as a sports anchor and reporter for CTV owned-and-operated station Sudbury-based CICI-TV from 1999 to 2000 and as a sports anchor for Global owned-and-operated station CFSK-TV in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 2000.[4]
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 CFL Friday Night Football telecasts in 2003.[2]
In 2004, Rishaug was named TSN's new Edmonton reporter for SportsCentre, after veteran TSN reporter Ken Chilibeck retired from the position.[5] He reports on the Edmonton Oilers, the Edmonton Elks, and any other sports from the Edmonton area.[2] 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.[6]
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 Humboldt Broncos bus crash.[7]
References
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External links
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- 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