Eric Bishop
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Template:Short description Template:For multi Template:Infobox person Eric Stewart Bishop (30 January 1926 – 1 April 2000) was a Canadian sports journalist and play-by-play sports broadcaster. In 1987, Bishop was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame as a broadcaster.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Bishop was also briefly a horse race owner.<ref name="stable">Template:Cite news</ref>
Work experience
- Junior sportswriter Vancouver Sun, c. 1944
- Royal Canadian Air Force, 1944
- catcher Purity 99 Big Four League baseball Calgary, mid 1940s
- sportswriter/assistant sports editor Calgary Herald, 1946
- PR/broadcaster WIHL Los Angeles Ramblers 1946–47
- Sports Director CJAT Trail, British Columbia, 1948
- Home Oil Pro Hockey broadcasts CKNW New Westminster, 1952
- Sports Director CFAC Calgary, 1954
- called horse races Victoria Park Calgary, 1959–64
- Sports Editor Calgary Albertan, early 1960s
- CKXL (AM) Calgary, late 1960s
- part owner WHL Victoria Cougars, 1970s
- BC Lions football play-by-play announcer with CKWX, 1970s
- play-by-play WHA Calgary Cowboys CFAC Calgary, 1980s
- sports columnist Calgary Sun, 1990s
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Categories:
- 1926 births
- 2000 deaths
- People from Lacombe, Alberta
- Journalists from Alberta
- Canadian sportswriters
- Canadian male journalists
- 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- Vancouver Sun people
- Canadian sports announcers
- Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductees
- Canadian racehorse owners and breeders
- World Hockey Association broadcasters