Longtime TSN reporter passes away after long battle with cancer
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Long-time TSN broadcaster Michael Whalen has passed away at the age of 82.
According to multiple online reports, former TSN correspondent Michael Whalen has passed away after a long battle with cancer.
Heard through the Montreal media grapevine that Michael Whalen passed away from cancer last week. Michael was a TSN original, Montreal-based but nationally known and above all else a kind and decent man who always had a smile, a good word and a firm handshake. Godspeed.
Whalen covered the Montreal Expos, Canadiens, and Alouettes for TSN
Whalen was TSN's longtime Montreal correspondent and was always front and center with Montreal Canadiens news, and Montreal Expos news for that matter, on "Canada's Sports Leader."
During the summers he covered the Montreal Expos, including the team's incredible1994 run cut short by Major League Baseball's player strike, right through the franchise's move to Washington, D.C. 10 years later.
A media mainstay in the city, Whalen worked for more than 20 years as TSN's bureau reporter for Montreal and the province of Quebec from 1986 to 2007.
He worked at CBC Radio hosting a music program in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and was one of the few reporters who interviewed John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their historic «Bed-in for Peace» at Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel in 1969.
He was later a medical reporter at CFCF and worked on the program As It Is.
Whalen joined TSN just after its launch, becoming the network's first permanent bureau reporter outside of Toronto in 1986.
He retired in roughly 2014 after a successful career and was replaced by John Lu.
Whalen is survived by his wife, Michele, their daughter Leah and stepson Nicko.
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