Bill Good Sr.
Canadian radio sports broadcaster
About Bill Good Sr.
Lived 1918 – 1996 (aged 77–78).
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.
A native of Wilkie, Saskatchewan, Good began his career as a newspaper sports reporter in Regina and Winnipeg in the late 1930s before moving to Vancouver in 1948. He first became nationally known as a curling commentator and announcer for CBC Radio. By the time of his retirement, he had covered The Brier 48 times. the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame as a builder in 1992, and the BC Sports Hall of Fame's media division in 2002.
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.
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Who was Bill Good Sr.?
Canadian radio sports broadcaster (1918–1996)
When was Bill Good Sr. born?
Bill Good Sr. was born in 1918.
When did Bill Good Sr. die?
Bill Good Sr. died in 1996.
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