Paul Brothers (sportscaster)

Last updated

Paul Brothers is a Canadian television broadcaster, and is the current anchor on Global News Morning for Global TV Halifax.

He is the former host and reporter on sports television station theScore. He began in national television on MuchMusic in 2006 as host of the show Going Coastal. [1]

Brothers grew up in Bishop's Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador. He moved to Halifax in 2004 and then to Toronto in 2010. Brothers was the first ever winner of Gillette Drafted: The Search for Canada's Next Sportscaster, beating out over 3,000 hopefuls to gain a one-year contract at theScore and become a spokesperson for Gillette. [2]

He is married to curler Jill Brothers (née Mouazar). [3]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Global Television Network</span> Canadian broadcast TV network

The Global Television Network is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network. It is currently Canada's second most-watched private terrestrial television network after CTV, and has fifteen owned-and-operated stations throughout the country. Global is owned by Corus Entertainment — the media holdings of JR Shaw and other members of his family.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Denny Doherty</span> Canadian musician (1940–2007)

Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty was a Canadian musician. He was a founding member of the 1960s musical group the Mamas & the Papas for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

CTV 2 Atlantic is a Canadian cable television channel serving Atlantic Canada owned by Bell Media, with its studios located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc., it operates as a de facto owned-and-operated station of its secondary CTV 2 television system.

Sky Sports News (SSN) is a British paid television sports news channel run by Sky, a division of Comcast.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CIII-DT</span> Global flagship television station in Toronto

CIII-DT is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the Global Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, CIII-DT maintains studios at 81 Barber Greene Road in the Don Mills district of Toronto, and its transmitter is located atop the CN Tower in downtown Toronto.

<i>Breakfast Television</i> Canadian morning program television brand

Breakfast Television is a Canadian morning television program that is broadcast on Citytv. As of 2023, BT only broadcast from Toronto as a four-hour morning show, while a national edition aired in 8:30-10 a.m. local time on all Citytv stations. Versions were formerly broadcast in Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Montreal, but have been canceled and replaced with alternative programming. The version broadcast by the Atlantic Satellite Network continued to use the brand under license from Rogers until 2011, when it was re-launched as CTV Morning Live upon the service's rebranding as CTV 2 Atlantic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CBHT-DT</span> CBC Television station in Halifax, Nova Scotia

CBHT-DT is a CBC Television station in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The station's studios are located on Chebucto Road in Halifax, and its transmitter is located on Washmill Lake Drive on the city's west side.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">George Stroumboulopoulos</span> Canadian broadcaster

George Mark Paul Stroumboulopoulos is a Canadian media personality. He is one of Canada's most popular broadcasters and best known as formerly being a VJ for the Canadian music television channel MuchMusic. He was also the host and co-executive producer of the CBC Television talk show George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight from 2005 to 2014. From 2014 to 2016, Stroumboulopoulos worked for Rogers Media, anchoring Hockey Night in Canada and the NHL on Rogers. As of December 2019, he is a radio host on CBC Music. Most recently, he joined Apple Music Radio as host of a Monday to Thursday live show.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CIHF-DT</span> Global television station in Halifax, Nova Scotia

CIHF-DT is a television station in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, part of the Global Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, it is a sister station to CHNB-DT in Saint John, New Brunswick. The two stations share a studio on Gottingen Street in downtown Halifax; CIHF-DT's transmitter is located on Washmill Lake Drive on the city's west side.

Gillette Labs Soccer Saturday is a weekly television programme broadcast on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and Ireland during the football season.

CTV Atlantic is a system of four television stations in the Maritimes, owned and operated by the CTV Television Network, a division of Bell Media. Despite the name, it is not available on basic cable or analog in Newfoundland and Labrador even though that province is part of Atlantic Canada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">P. J. Stock</span> Canadian ice hockey player, broadcaster (b. 1975)

Philip Joseph Stock is a Canadian sports broadcaster and former professional ice hockey player. After retiring as a player in 2004, he hosted a radio show on Montreal station Team 990 and later became a regular member of the Hockey Night in Canada broadcast team until his release in 2016. Stock also occasionally participates as a panelist on the French language show L'antichambre, broadcast on the Quebec-based RDS sports channel.

Jill Krop is a Canadian journalist and news broadcaster. Krop was News Director and Station Manager for Global BC, a Global BC news anchor and a local radio personality.

Global News Morning is the name of local morning newscasts airing on Global Television Network's owned-and-operated stations (O&Os) in British Columbia, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Kingston, Peterborough, Montreal, and Halifax with each station producing its own edition of the program. In Ontario, the program was branded The Morning Show, with local variations being produced on Global Toronto, CKWS Kingston, and CHEX Peterborough, before they too adopted the Global News Morning branding.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Global News</span> Canadian news network, division of Global Television Network

Global News is the news and current affairs division of the Canadian Global Television Network. The network is owned by Corus Entertainment, which oversees all of the network's national news programming as well as local news on its 21 owned-and-operated stations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jonny Harris</span> Canadian actor and comedian

Jonathan Harris is a Canadian actor and comedian from Newfoundland and Labrador. Harris is best known for his roles in the television series Murdoch Mysteries, Still Standing and Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, as well as the films Young Triffie, Moving Day, and Grown Up Movie Star.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CHNB-DT</span> Global station in Saint John, New Brunswick

CHNB-DT is a television station in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, part of the Global Television Network. It serves as the network's outlet for both New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. CHNB-DT is owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment as a sister station to CIHF-DT in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The two stations share studios on Gottingen Street in Downtown Halifax; CHNB-DT's transmitter is located on Mount Champlain. Aside from the transmitters, CHNB-DT does not maintain any physical presence locally in New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jill Heinerth</span> Canadian diver, writer and underwater filmmaker

Jill Heinerth is a Canadian cave diver, underwater explorer, writer, photographer and film-maker. She has made TV series for PBS, National Geographic Channel and the BBC, consulted on movies for directors including James Cameron, written several books and produced documentaries including We Are Water and Ben's Vortex, about the disappearance of Ben McDaniel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2016 NHL Winter Classic</span> Outdoor National Hockey League game

The 2016 NHL Winter Classic was an outdoor ice hockey game played in the National Hockey League (NHL) on January 1, 2016, at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The eighth edition of the Winter Classic, it matched the Montreal Canadiens against the Boston Bruins; the Canadiens won, 5–1, a significant event in one of the NHL's best-known rivalries. A Bruins and Canadiens alumni game was also played on December 31, 2015. The Boston Pride women's professional hockey team played before the alumni game against Les Canadiennes of the Canadian Women's Hockey League to a 1–1 tie in the first ever 2016 Outdoor Women's Classic.

References

  1. "The dream gig". The Telegram . 2008-07-21.
  2. "Introducing...PAUL BROTHERS - The Freshest Face in Sports Broadcasting". Canada NewsWire. 2009-12-09.
  3. "Plenty of support in Sydney for Nova Scotia skip Jill Brothers". Saltwire. 2019-02-20. Retrieved 2023-08-23.