Jamie Campbell

Jamie Campbell (born May 20, 1967) is a Canadian sportscaster with Sportsnet. He is currently the host of Toronto Blue Jays telecasts and previously provided the play-by-play from 2005 to 2009.

Youth and education Born and raised in Oakville, Ontario, Campbell attended many Oakville Blades hockey games where his father was the public address announcer.

His love of baseball began in 1977 when his father took him to a game, sparked by a conversation with Lyman Bostock of the Minnesota Twins. Bostock was murdered a year later in Gary, Indiana. As a youth, Campbell regularly attended Blue Jays games.

Campbell also idolized Canadian Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve and later named one of his sons after him.

Campbell played Little League baseball at Wallace Park in Oakville. He attended Oakville Trafalgar High School

In 1998, Campbell was offered a job as an anchor with the new cable network CTV Sportsnet (now Rogers Sportsnet) with whom he has remained ever since. He and Daren Millard hosted the station's first show, Sportscentral (later called Sportsnet Connected, now known as Sportsnet Central). As well as anchoring Sportsnet's news shows, Campbell reported from a variety of events such as the Super Bowl and the Olympics. He gained play-by-play experience covering Canadian Football League and Arena Football League games. He also served as the station's in-studio host for Blue Jays broadcasts and Major League Baseball playoffs.

Toronto Blue Jays Campbell's first game providing play-by-play coverage for the Blue Jays was on April 8, 2002, covering for Rob Faulds after the death of his father forced him to miss a game. In 2010, Campbell became the moderator of the newly created pre-game show Blue Jays Central alongside former Blue Jay catcher Gregg Zaun. He hosted the show with Joe Siddall due to Zaun's termination by Sportsnet in 2017, until Siddall got promoted to replace Buck Martinez as the lead television colour commentator in 2026. Campbell now hosts the show alongside Caleb Joseph.

His signature home run call was "You can kiss that one goodbye!", which was previously used by former broadcaster Fergie Olver while he was calling Blue Jay games during the 1980s.

Olympics As part of the Canadian Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, Campbell was selected to be play-by-play announcer for the events held at Cypress Mountain during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, with Canadian former stars such as snowboarder Tara Teigen and mogulist Veronica Brenner.

Campbell called Canada's first gold medal on home soil which was won by Alexandre Bilodeau in the men's moguls, to which he called "And Alex Bilodeau... has done it! He has done it! He has done it! Gold medal for Alex Bilodeau! Oh relax Canada, you can breathe easy now, this great country finally has Olympic gold right here at home!"

Campbell also worked as the main play-by-play announcer for the cycling events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.