Peter Young
Inducted 2025
Primary Outlet
CKY Winnipeg, CTV
Peter Young is an internationally known Winnipeg broadcaster-producer and sports management consultant.
A native of Fort William, Ont., the former high school teacher started radio broadcasting at age 16, moving to Winnipeg in 1974 to, coincidentally, work on a master’s degree in Sociology of Sports.
He’s the only broadcaster to have handled TV play-by-play duties for both the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League Winnipeg Jets, as well as having that same role for numerous CTV international hockey telecasts in the 1970s and ‘80s.
For two decades, Young was a broadcaster for the CTV network covering events across Canada, the United States and Europe. He hosted or produced more than 100 episodes of CTV Wide World of Sports and broadcast three Olympic Games.
A former play-by-play broadcaster for the Canadian Football League on CTV, he produced and hosted shows for CTV, ESPN, TSN and the Mizlou Sports News network. For 12 years, he hosted CTV’s CFL playoffs and Grey Cup telecasts. He was a voting member of the Football Reporters of Canada and a member of the Manitoba Schenley Awards voting committee for 18 years.
In 1982, Young launched a weekly segment called CKY Sportstar of the Week. Across four decades, more than 2,000 Manitoba amateur athletes and teams received that recognition. As a demonstration of his diverse broadcast background, he and Veronica Tennant hosted the Canadian Fitness Challenge in prime time on the full CTV network in 1983.
Young is a member of the Canadian Olympic Academy and was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2023. He and wife Marlene, two sons and two grandchildren reside in Winnipeg.
Often asked about the most memorable moment in his career, he doesn’t cite the championships of the WHA Jets, Winnipeg Blue Bombers or Winnipeg Goldeyes. Rather, it was a chance encounter at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics. Describing Yugoslavia as “depressing,” he said the CTV crew was homesick after a month in the country.
“I happened to walk through the Olympic Medal Plaza one night when I heard the most unexpected and wonderful song – the Canadian anthem,” he recalled. “Yes, that was our flag going up the gold-medal pole. Speed skater Gaetan Boucher had won Canada’s first gold medal! A cloud had lifted.”
Peter Young was inducted into the Manitoba Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association Media Roll of Honour in 2025.
He passed away in Winnipeg from cancer on Feb. 2, 2026.
A native of Fort William, Ont., the former high school teacher started radio broadcasting at age 16, moving to Winnipeg in 1974 to, coincidentally, work on a master’s degree in Sociology of Sports.
He’s the only broadcaster to have handled TV play-by-play duties for both the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League Winnipeg Jets, as well as having that same role for numerous CTV international hockey telecasts in the 1970s and ‘80s.
For two decades, Young was a broadcaster for the CTV network covering events across Canada, the United States and Europe. He hosted or produced more than 100 episodes of CTV Wide World of Sports and broadcast three Olympic Games.
A former play-by-play broadcaster for the Canadian Football League on CTV, he produced and hosted shows for CTV, ESPN, TSN and the Mizlou Sports News network. For 12 years, he hosted CTV’s CFL playoffs and Grey Cup telecasts. He was a voting member of the Football Reporters of Canada and a member of the Manitoba Schenley Awards voting committee for 18 years.
In 1982, Young launched a weekly segment called CKY Sportstar of the Week. Across four decades, more than 2,000 Manitoba amateur athletes and teams received that recognition. As a demonstration of his diverse broadcast background, he and Veronica Tennant hosted the Canadian Fitness Challenge in prime time on the full CTV network in 1983.
Young is a member of the Canadian Olympic Academy and was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2023. He and wife Marlene, two sons and two grandchildren reside in Winnipeg.
Often asked about the most memorable moment in his career, he doesn’t cite the championships of the WHA Jets, Winnipeg Blue Bombers or Winnipeg Goldeyes. Rather, it was a chance encounter at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics. Describing Yugoslavia as “depressing,” he said the CTV crew was homesick after a month in the country.
“I happened to walk through the Olympic Medal Plaza one night when I heard the most unexpected and wonderful song – the Canadian anthem,” he recalled. “Yes, that was our flag going up the gold-medal pole. Speed skater Gaetan Boucher had won Canada’s first gold medal! A cloud had lifted.”
Peter Young was inducted into the Manitoba Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association Media Roll of Honour in 2025.
He passed away in Winnipeg from cancer on Feb. 2, 2026.