Bob Moir

Robert Munro Moir (1929 – December 18, 2016) was a Canadian television producer, sports commentator, and journalist. He covered the Canadian Football League for the Winnipeg Free Press from 1948 to 1958, then worked more than 40 years for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) beginning in 1952. He was a play-by-play commentator for football games broadcast on CBC Sports from 1957 to 1963, and was the first secretary-treasurer of Football Reporters of Canada. He reported for CBC Sports at the 1972 Summer Olympics, and sneaked into the Olympic Village during the Munich massacre to give live reports. As the executive producer for coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympics, he expanded coverage by CBC Sports from 14 to 169 hours, introduced live interviews with athletes after events, and established the model used for future coverage of the Olympics. His later work for CBC Sports included the executive-producer of Canadian Football League broadcasts, the Commonwealth Games, the Summer and Winter Olympics, and the World Figure Skating Championships. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and the CBC Sports Hall of Fame, and was named to the Manitoba Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association roll of honour.

Early life Robert Munro Moir was born in 1929, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Moir was a sports journalist for the Winnipeg Free Press from 1948 to 1958, covering the Canadian Football League. He joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1952, was a play-by-play commentator for football games broadcast on CBC Sports from 1957 to 1963, and called his first Grey Cup game in 1958. He was a founding member of Football Reporters of Canada, and served as its first secretary-treasurer. In 1962, he was the play-by-play commentator for the first Macdonald Brier of curling to be broadcast live on CBC Sports. He was later a commentator for the 1964 Summer Olympics, the first Olympics to be broadcast on CBC Sports. During the Munich massacre crisis, he and Don Wittman crawled through a hole in a fence to access the Olympic Village and give live reports, while posing as medical staff on the 1972 Canadian Olympic team. He and Wittman were away from the Israeli Olympic team building, and could see the nine hostages sitting in a circle, guarded by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. He and Wittman filed radio reports to the CBC, and remained on location all day until the hostages were loaded onto a bus. His crew for the English-language coverage of the Olympics included 245 people who produced 169 hours of content, compared to 14 hours of content at the 1972 Olympics. From 1976 to 1984, he was the producer or executive-producer of Canadian Football League games broadcast on CBC Sports. and the 1996 World Figure Skating Championships. When the International Skating Union began video recording programs by all skaters in 1996, Moir was a consultant on the project which aimed to increase the accuracy of the judging process. and was inducted into the CBC Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.