William R. Good Sr. (1918 - 1996) was a Canadian radio sports broadcaster, most noted as the winner of ACTRA's Foster Hewitt Award for excellence in sports broadcasting at the 4th ACTRA Awards in 1975. [1]
A native of Wilkie, Saskatchewan, [2] Good began his career as a newspaper sports reporter in Regina and Winnipeg in the late 1930s before moving to Vancouver in 1948. [3] He first became nationally known as a curling commentator and announcer for CBC Radio. [4] By the time of his retirement, he had covered The Brier 48 times. [4]
He was also a football commentator for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League, hosting the first post-game show on CBC Vancouver in the 1950s and helping to create a football show for CKVU in the 1970s upon that station's launch in the 1970s. [4] He was also a regular part of broadcast teams for the Canadian Open Golf Championship. [2]
He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame's media division in 1982, [5] the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame as a builder in 1992, [6] and the BC Sports Hall of Fame's media division in 2002. [7]
His son Bill Good Jr. is also a retired Canadian television journalist, best known as a longtime radio and television news anchor on stations in the Vancouver market. [8]