Longtime Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster and Order of Canada member dead at 90
Born June 24, 1933, the St. John’s, N.L., native provided a distinctive soundtrack to Canada’s game. He was known for his signature “Oh baby” call, an expression that was not restricted to hockey arenas.
“I don’t know when it’s going to come out. No idea … I don’t plan it. It’s spontaneous,” he wrote in his autobiography. “I don’t script the thing. It’s ad-libbed … and that’s what broadcasting’s all about.” In typical Cole fashion, he initially wondered ahead of doing the autobiography who would be interested in reading his story, “just because I do hockey games.”
“Thank you so much Montreal and Canada,” he said to viewers, looking down from his perch. “It’s been a pleasure. I’m going to miss this.”“Foster was good, Danny was good,” Cherry said of Cole’s HNIC predecessors. “But the best of all, I think, and I’ve seen them all, is Bob Cole.” “I wish it were more, but they’ve got a lot of guys in place,” he said. “They’ve got my phone number.Cole counted family, flying, dogs, Broadway shows and fly-fishing among his loves.
His life took a turn in 1956 when, on the way back from a trip to New York, the aspiring broadcaster decided to drop off a five-minute audition tape at Hewitt’s Toronto radio station.
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