/A\ News , Weekend Sports
"I've been a television addict from the time I was "knee high to a grasshopper". I remember watching the 1984 Olympics, and Wayne Gretzky scoring 215 points during the 85-86 NHL season; but it wasn't sports that always kept me glued to the tube. I read newspapers from the age of five years old, and watched the evening news with my parents every night. I needed to know the news everyday from the Persian Gulf Crisis in 1985, the Challenger Explosion, and the Berlin Wall coming down. So why sports? Well that's simple, I saw Don Cherry on Hockey Night in Canada on a snowy night in Timmins. I pointed to the TV, looked at my parents and grandparents (hockey is a gathering at the Sutherland household) and said "I want to do that". It's that simple. Everything else just happened. I managed my high school radio station, ran a DJ company, was a referee (after I quit playing hockey), was an announcer for every kind of sport, and then I moved to London and hosted a couple of shows on Rogers while at Fanshawe's School of Journalism. After graduating I spent a summer in radio, reading the morning news on the weekend in North Bay (early-early mornings). Then I decided to come back to London, because TV is what I wanted to do. I spent another year in school and started with /A\ News the next spring. I couldn't be happier here and look forward to many years to come in the sunny southwest."
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"My passion for sports and especially local sports runs deep and I enjoy nothing more than telling the stories that may have gone untold."
