23 Facts About Paul Romanuk

Paul Romanuk was born on October 31,1961 and is a Toronto sportscaster and writer.

In 1981, Paul Romanuk moved to Toronto in order to study at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute's radio and television arts program.

From 1981 until 1984, in parallel with attending classes at Ryerson, Paul Romanuk did unpaid work on Toronto Marlboros Sunday broadcasts on CKLN-FM, Ryerson's campus radio station.

Paul Romanuk began as a stats and technical equipment associate for play-by-play announcer Michael Landsberg before taking over the play-by-play duties following Landsberg's departure.

Paul Romanuk continued on the job even after graduating, performing it until 1987.

Additionally, fresh graduate Paul Romanuk freelanced for the new all-sports cable channel TSN, starting there as a newsroom editorial assistant in February 1985, months after the channel's September 1984 launch.

However, mere months after moving to Calgary, Paul Romanuk received a full-time reporter position offer for TSN's SportsDesk back in Toronto and decided to take it to the displeasure of his Calgary employers.

In October 1987, Paul Romanuk began at TSN as a full-time commentator and reporter.

Paul Romanuk did National Hockey League play-by-play for the TSN Hockey from 1989 until 2001.

Paul Romanuk was best known in Canada for his play-by-play work of international hockey on TSN, where he called virtually every major IIHF tournament from 1990 until he left the network in early 2001.

Paul Romanuk covered the NHL Entry Draft from 1987 to '93 and 1997 as a reporter, and from 1994 to '96 and 1998 as a co-host.

Paul Romanuk has not covered a Vanier Cup since then.

Paul Romanuk has shared a production credit on CHL Sunday Night on TSN and on Rogers Sportsnet's presentation of the Spengler Cup hockey tournament.

Paul Romanuk has worked at six Olympic Games, covering a variety of sports for CBC, TSN and CTV.

In spring 2001, Paul Romanuk left TSN after fourteen years at the network, accepting the offer of hosting a morning drive show on The Team 1050, newly re-branded AM station in Toronto.

Paul Romanuk's morning show with Mike Richards as well as the entire station turned out to be short-lived getting dismantled in late summer 2002 due to poor ratings as they were unable to attract any of the audience from The Fan 590, the legacy sports AM station in town.

In spring 2005, Paul Romanuk quit his Raptors radio play-by-play job at The Fan 590 and moved to London, England, following his wife who took an executive job at The Coca-Cola Company's European division based in the city.

Paul Romanuk additionally freelanced on the Canadian networks CBC, CTV, TSN, and Sportsnet coverage of various international sporting events such as play-by-play announcing of triathlon and weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

In 2014, the couple decided to move back to Toronto as Paul Romanuk accepted an offer from Hockey Night in Canada.

Alongside analyst Greg Millen, Paul Romanuk additionally became part of the regional Toronto Maple Leafs television package airing on Sportsnet Ontario.

In 2015, Paul Romanuk was assigned to his first conference final.

Paul Romanuk would go on to call three conference finals in four years.

Paul Romanuk has written many newspaper and magazine articles and continues to create projects for various clients.