Sue Prestedge

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Sue Prestedge is a Canadian sports broadcaster who was one of Canada's first and most influential female sports journalists. [1]

After working as a sports reporter and anchor for CHCH-TV and CBET-TV, [2] Prestedge joined the national CBC Television in 1983, and was part of the network's team covering the 1984 Summer Olympics. [3] In that role, she won ACTRA's Foster Hewitt Award for Excellence in Sports Broadcasting in 1984 for her "Olympic Journey" series of profiles of Canadian Olympic athletes. [4] She remained with the CBC until the mid-1990s, also covering Olympic games in 1988, 1992 and 1994. In 1986, she served as a substitute anchor for several weeks on the network's noon-hour news program Midday , when Valerie Pringle was away on maternity leave; [5] she also served a stint as host of Ontario Morning , CBC Radio's local morning program for non-metropolitan markets in Southern Ontario, in the early 1990s. [6]

Prestedge subsequently became director of the broadcast journalism program at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario. [7] In 2001, she was named senior vice president of WTSN, the world's first television channel devoted exclusively to women's sports. [1] The channel ceased operations in 2003, and Prestedge rejoined the CBC in a management role; [8] in this capacity, she sometimes served as anchor of the network's abbreviated newscasts during its 2005 labour dispute. [9]

After leaving CBC she has been teaching at Mohawk College and as freelance broadcaster.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Hamilton's Prestedge to lead Women's Sports Network". Hamilton Spectator , March 2, 2001.
  2. ↑ "CBC survivors: Former Windsor anchor bounces back to TV". Windsor Star , September 28, 1991.
  3. ↑ "Film exposes Games' sexual bias". The Globe and Mail , June 21, 1984.
  4. ↑ "'Chautauqua Girl' captures top Nellie". Montreal Gazette , April 4, 1985.
  5. ↑ "Midday grace". Toronto Star , April 5, 1986.
  6. ↑ "TV involves the viewer in global disasters in a way media guru had not imagined". Toronto Star , November 27, 1993.
  7. ↑ "CBC shuffle". Toronto Star , July 7, 1995.
  8. ↑ "CBC's firing of Cuthbert meets with anger and sadness". The Globe and Mail , February 24, 2005.
  9. ↑ "CBC-TV the big loser in lockout". Toronto Star , August 16, 2005.
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