Pierre Dufault was born on November 5,1934 and is a Canadian former journalist and sports commentator.
19 Facts About Pierre Dufault
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Pierre Dufault began as a political correspondent and reporter for the Canadian Football League in radio at CKCH then on television at CBOFT-DT.
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Pierre Dufault joined the sports department of Radio-Canada in 1972 as a play-by-play announcer for CFL games and regularly covered the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games.
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Pierre Dufault was president of Football Reporters of Canada in 1984, became the late night sports report host for Radio-Canada in 1993, and was inducted into the reporters section of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Pierre Dufault became interested in Canadian football in 1948 at the 36th Grey Cup.
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Pierre Dufault started in journalism in 1952, writing for Ottawa's French language daily newspaper, Le Droit.
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Pierre Dufault later said he was fired a few months into the job for not being competent enough.
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Pierre Dufault worked in radio at CKCH in Hull, Quebec, from 1955 to 1964, where he started as a reporter then eventually became the director.
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Pierre Dufault then worked for Radio-Canada at CBOFT-DT in Ottawa from 1964 to 1972.
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Pierre Dufault was phoned at home 50 minutes before the broadcast was to begin and rushed to the studios as an emergency news anchor.
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Pierre Dufault was a radio broadcaster for the Olympic Games from 1972 until 1980, then worked television broadcasts for the Olympic Games until 1998.
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Pierre Dufault covered swimming events for the Commonwealth Games from 1974 to 1994, and was a regular play-by-play announcer for CFL games on Radio-Canada from 1973 to 1988.
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Pierre Dufault began teaching a radio course in Canadian French at The Dave Boxer School of Broadcasting in 1979, then became a part owner of the school in 1981.
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Pierre Dufault hosted the CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award presentations in the 1980s and was president of Football Reporters of Canada in 1984.
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Pierre Dufault became the late night sports report host for Radio-Canada in 1993.
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Pierre Dufault retired from full-time sports broadcasting in 1996, and was inducted into the reporters section of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Pierre Dufault stated that his coverage of the 1968 Canadian federal election and the Munich massacre were days he would never forget.
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Pierre Dufault referred to himself as a "voice guy", and that he worked for Radio-Canada at a time when its sports commentators, hosts and journalists were hired for their skills, knowledge and experience, rather than a reputation as an athlete or a coach.
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Pierre Dufault is a nephew of artist and writer Ernest Pierre Dufault, better known by the alias Will James.