{"id":347760,"date":"2025-12-15T23:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347760\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:48:07","slug":"former-tsn-montreal-reporter-michael-whalen-passes-away-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347760\/","title":{"rendered":"Former TSN Montreal reporter Michael Whalen passes away at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Long-time Montreal broadcaster Michael Whalen has passed away at the age of 82.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A media mainstay in the city, Whalen worked for more than 20 years as TSN\u2019s bureau reporter for Montreal and the province of Quebec from 1986 to 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 \u201cBed-in for Peace\u201d at Montreal\u2019s Queen Elizabeth Hotel in 1969.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was later a medical reporter at CFCF and worked on the program As It Is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Whalen joined TSN just after its launch, becoming the network\u2019s first permanent bureau reporter outside of Toronto in 1986.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In Montreal, Whalen covered the Canadiens extensively, including their Stanley Cup runs in 1986 and 1993, the closing of the Forum and the opening of the then-named Molson Centre, and the infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/patrick-roy\/8451033\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/patrick-roy\/8451033\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Roy<\/a> trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During the summers he covered the Montreal Expos &#8211; including the team\u2019s incredible1994 run cut short by Major League Baseball\u2019s player strike, right through the franchise\u2019s move to Washington, D.C. 10 years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On the CFL beat, Whalen covered the demise and return of the Montreal Alouettes, including their Grey Cup championship in 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Whalen is survived by his wife, Michele, their daughter Leah and stepson Nicko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long-time Montreal broadcaster Michael Whalen has passed away at the age of 82. A media mainstay in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-347760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}