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.