Tim Ryan (sportscaster)

Tim Ryan (born May 16, 1939) is a retired Canadian born American sportscaster.

Ryan was born in Winnipeg and raised in Toronto and attended De La Salle College (Toronto). His father, Joe, was general manager of three Canadian Football League teams in Winnipeg, Montreal and Edmonton and is an honoured member of both the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

In 1956, while attending high school, Ryan got his start in radio at CFRB in Toronto.

Ryan graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1960 and took a job with newly formed CFTO-TV Toronto as an assistant sports director, where he called some games for the Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) Triple-A baseball club and the Toronto Marlboros junior hockey team as well as hosting late night repeats of Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts home games.

In 1966, Ryan was hired as the director of public relations for the expansion Oakland Seals of the NHL. He became the team's radio play by play announcer in 1967.

In 1969, Ryan moved to New York to work at WPIX as a news co-anchor and sportscaster. While in New York City, Ryan also called New York Rangers games on WOR-TV WOR. He was also sports anchor on WNBC-TV 4 in New York in the mid-'70s.

In 1972, Ryan left the Rangers to become the lead announcer for the NHL on NBC. Ryan would call three Stanley Cup Finals alongside Ted Lindsay. Ryan also called NFL games, and other sports for NBC.

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