Live With CDP Sports Talk, Guest: Derek Taylor ( CJOB 680 voice of the Blue Bombers) Nov 16th, 2024

A product of Alberta Derek Taylor, he was born in Red Deer, moved to Edmonton and grew up on Okotoks - Taylor studied at Ryerson University in Toronto and began his career as a writer for TSN in 1998. His first on-air job was in Canmore doing traffic for - Taylor breaks into his full radio voice to spit out “106.5 Mountain FM… the voice of the Bow Valley” - before a stop at CFJC in Kamloops and then his arrival in Winnipeg in 2001.
He began calling Bisons games in 2006 and handled that for eight seasons before his return to TSN as an anchor in 2014.
“Early on I knew I wanted to do play-by play. I was probably 14 when I first thought, ‘That would be very cool,’” he said. “I’ve been lucky. The age at which I got the TSN job I had almost written it off because I was 40 and they didn’t need any more 40-year-olds doing Sports Centre when they’re trying to appeal to the younger crew.
“I was thinking of my audition there the other week. We just passed the one-year anniversary of Chris Schultz dying and Schultzie was a part of my audition at TSN. They bring you in and ask you to rewrite a block of Sports Centre and we’ll run it and see how you do. I did that one time and then they asked me to talk to Chris Schultz and ask him five questions about the CFL and see how that goes talking to an analyst. So, I wrote down five quick questions and there are Schultzie and I talking about football and it went well and eventually they said, ‘Would you like to come and work for us?’
“I said, ‘Absolutely. It would have been my dream 15 years ago, but I’ll take it now.’ And then I got the Rider play-by-play job and now this with CJOB and the Bombers… like I said, I’ve been lucky.”
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