Rick Moffat

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Rick Moffat is an award-winning Canadian journalist and broadcaster. He provided play-by-play coverage for CJAD 800 radio and TSN 690 for Montreal Alouettes 1996-2019 Montreal Canadiens 2004-2011 and Montreal Impact 2011-2019. [1] He also co-hosted The Morning Show on TSN 690 alongside Conor McKenna and Shaun Starr, while providing sportscasts on the Andrew Carter Morning Show, Montreal’s #1 English-language radio program.

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Moffat is the son of a decorated RCAF WW2 veteran James Moffat, who was honoured with the French Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur in 2014 for his part in liberating France and Belgium from the atrocities of the Nazis.

Broadcasting career

Moffat began his play-by-play career in 1991 with the Montreal Machine of the NFL-run World League of American Football. [2] When the Alouettes returned CFL play to Montreal, Moffat worked with CJAD 800 broadcast legend Ted Blackman, former Seattle Seahawk and Toronto Argonaut Tommy Kane, as well as longtime Alouette all-star Tony Proudfoot, who would become Moffat's co-host in the booth until the 2008 season. Former Alouettes stars like Ed Philion, Dave Mudge, Davis Sanchez, Bryan Chiu, Paul Lambert and M.-O. Brouillette would follow.

Moffat joined the CJAD 800 Hockey Broadcast team working beside Stanley Cup champion Murray Wilson in 2004, during the playoffs. Moffat was no stranger to the Habs beat, having been on the ‘86 Cup-winning club’s flight home from Calgary as well as following the ‘93 Championship run. [3]

When CJAD lost the Canadiens broadcast rights, Moffat dove into the challenge of The Beautiful Game. Mentored by former Canadian National Teamer and Montreal Impact Builders Club honouree Grant Needham, Moffat served as Voice of the Impact through their building years in MLS and the Champions League run through Pachuca, Mexico, Alajuela Costa Rica and Mexico City’s fabled Estadio Azteca.

During his time at CJAD800, Moffat won an RTNDA Award for Investigative Reporting as well as a New York Festivals Award for Sports Creative Production. In 2002 at Montreal’s annual Sports Celebrity Breakfast he was honoured with the Larry Fredericks Award for career achievement.

Moffat is currently retired, working freelance jobs including writing for The Main Street newspaper serving the Laurentian community. He is also active with Conservation Tamaracouta and Coalition Verte.

Personal life

Born October 8, 1960 in Lachine, Quebec, he was one of five children born to James Moffat, a decorated World War 2 hero with the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Belgian and French Resistance whose wartime memoir was published in "Behind Enemy Lines", and to Anne Dosman Moffat, a Prairie survivor of the Depression and the Dustbowl of Saskatchewan in the 1930s. [4] His nephew, Derek O'Farrell was a member of the Canadian national rowing team, having won medals at three world championships (2006, 2007, and 2009) and represented Canada at the 2012 Olympics in London.

Moffat holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Carleton University and began working in radio at CJSB Ottawa in 1982 before moving back home to Montreal in 1985 with what is now known as Virgin Radio. [4]

Moffat is a longtime supporter of Amnesty International, Inter Pares, Montreal's Social Justice Committee, Global Exchange, The ALS Society of Quebec, Coalition Verte and Conservation Tamaracouta.

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References

  1. ↑ "Rick Moffat".
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  3. ↑ "Rick Moffat".
  4. 1 2 Peter Kerr. "Rick Moffat – the 'voice' of the Montreal Canadiens and Alouettes". The Montrealer. Retrieved 29 January 2011.



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