Ryan Rishaug

Ryan Rishaug (born April 26, 1977)http://whl.ca/stats/player.php?id=20135 is a sports broadcaster with TSN. He is currently the Edmonton Bureau Reporter for SportsCentre, TSN's flagship sports news program,https://www.tsn.ca/talent/ryan-rishaug-1.57280 and hosts The Morning Mandate with Ryan Rishaug every weekday at 8:30 a.m. on TSN 1260.http://www.iheartradio.ca/tsn/tsn-edmonton/host/Person/Dustin%20Nielson
==Early life==
Rishaug was born in Sherwood Park, Alberta.http://www.bce.ca/news-and-media/releases/show/cfrns-ryan-rishaug-joins-tsn-as-edmonton-reporter-for-sportscentre Before entering sports broadcasting, he played 47 games in the WHL hockey league, at right wing on the Kamloops Blazers.https://www.bardown.com/ken-hitchcock-just-dropped-the-chirp-of-the-year-on-ryan-rishaug-and-it-involved-hockey-1.1230629 He attended the Broadcast Communications program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.http://www.bce.ca/news-and-media/releases/show/cfrns-ryan-rishaug-joins-tsn-as-edmonton-reporter-for-sportscentre
==Broadcasting career==
Rishaug began his broadcasting career in 1998, as a sports reporter at CFJC-TV in Kamloops, British Columbia.http://www.bce.ca/news-and-media/releases/show/cfrns-ryan-rishaug-joins-tsn-as-edmonton-reporter-for-sportscentre He also worked as a sports anchor and reporter for CTV's Sudbury-based MCTV from 1999 to 2000 and as a sports anchor for Global Television in Saskatoon in 2000.
Rishaug joined CTV's CFRN in 2000, serving as the station's weekend sports anchor before moving to the weekday 6 p.m. sports anchor desk.http://www.bce.ca/news-and-media/releases/show/cfrns-ryan-rishaug-joins-tsn-as-edmonton-reporter-for-sportscentre He also appeared on TSN as a sideline reporter for the network's CFL Friday Night Football telecasts in 2003.https://www.tsn.ca/talent/ryan-rishaug-1.57280
In 2004, Rishaug was named TSN's new Edmonton reporter for SportsCentre, after veteran TSN reporter Ken Chilibeck retired from the position.http://www.bce.ca/news-and-media/releases/show/cfrns-ryan-rishaug-joins-tsn-as-edmonton-reporter-for-sportscentre He reports on the Edmonton Oilers, the Edmonton Eskimos, and any other sports from the Edmonton area.https://www.tsn.ca/talent/ryan-rishaug-1.57280 He also currently hosts The Morning Mandate with Ryan Rishaug every weekday at 8:30 a.m. on TSN 1260, a segment on The Nielson Show hosted by TSN's Dustin Nielson.http://www.iheartradio.ca/tsn/tsn-edmonton/host/Person/Dustin%20Nielson
In April 2019, Rishaug reported and fronted the TSN original documentary 29 Forever, which tells the story of the 2017-18 Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team in honour of the one-year anniversary of the 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash.https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press/tsn-honours-the-humboldt-broncos-with-new-original-documentary-29-forever-april-3/
==References==
==External links==
*Rishaug Bio at TSN
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Category:1977 births
Category:Canadian television sportscasters
Category:Ice hockey people from Alberta
Category:Kamloops Blazers players
Category:National Hockey League broadcasters
Category:Canadian ice hockey right wingers