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unusual facts about colour commentator



Anders Parmström

"Ankan" (the Duck) Parmström is a familiar profile on Swedish TV, having worked as a hockey colour commentator for both Swedish Canal+ and SVT.

Benoît Brunet

A few years after his retirement, Brunet was hired as a colour commentator for the French-language sports network RDS for NHL games that didn't involve the Montreal Canadiens.

Bror-Erik Wallenius

He usually commentates athletics together with Antero Mertaranta, basketball with a colour commentator (Jukka Toijala and Henrik Dettman in the 2000s), and skiing with color commentator too (Juha Mieto, Pekka Vähäsöyrinki and Kari Ristanen in the 2000s).

Calle Johansson

After retiring the second time around, Johansson continued to work as a colour commentator and did studio analysis during game intermissions on Swedish Canal+.

Nick Bastaja

After his retirement as a player, Bastaja spent two seasons as a colour commentator for CFL games on the Canadian Football Network.

Sergio Momesso

On September 16, 2010, it was announced that Momesso would join the broadcast team with CJAD radio as colour commentator and game analyst for Montreal Canadiens broadcasts.


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Adriano Belli

Belli retired on May 11, 2011 on a Tall ship in Toronto and became a colour commentator/sportscaster on Rogers Sportsnet as their CFL Analyst.

Cameron McConville

McConville has also written for several magazines and presented several television programs and up until the end of the 2009 season was the colour commentator for Network Ten's Australian coverage of Formula One.

Tom Larscheid

From 1987 to 1990, Larscheid did television work for football as well, working on the CFL-produced Canadian Football Network, where he worked as a colour commentator on the network's secondary broadcast team and worked four Grey Cups as a sideline reporter and field-level analyst.