Name Darren Dutchyshen Role Sportscaster | Spouse Candice Dutchyshen | |
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Children Tyler Dutchyshen, Paige Dutchyshen, Brett Dutchyshen Nominations Gemini Award for Best Sportscaster/Anchor Similar Kate Beirness, Jennifer Hedger, James Duthie (sportscaster) Born 19 December 1966 (age 57), Porcupine Plain, Canada Died May 15, 2024 (aged 57) Toronto, Ontario, Canada Known for TSN, SportsCentre Partner Kate Beirness Profiles | ||
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Darren "Dutchy" Dutchyshen (December 19, 1966 – May 15, 2024) was a Canadian sportscaster, who cohosts the evening edition of SportsCentre on TSN where he worked since 1995. He reports on the Canadian Football League (CFL) during the football season. Dutchy was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and grew up in Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan. He graduated from the Western Academy Broadcasting College in Saskatoon, and went on to stints at STV and Global Edmonton before his current assignment. Dutchy worked on primetime reporting for TSN on the Olympic Games in 2012 (London) and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. In 2008, hockey commentator Pierre McGuire praised Dutchyshen, saying he is an announcer with a long stick from time to time.
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Broadcasting career
Dutchyshen started his broadcasting career as a sportscaster at STV Saskatoon (now that city's Global station). After a year, he moved to IMTV in Dauphin, Manitoba. He then spent seven years in Edmonton, hosting Sports Night on ITV (also now a Global station), and for more than two years concurrently hosting a daily radio sportscast on co-owned 630 CHED.
Dutchyshen joined TSN in 1995 and became a host of TSN's coverage of the Canadian Football League (CFL) during the football season and TSN's weekend editions of SportsDesk (TSN's flagship news programme, later re-named SportsCentre in 2001). He became a mainstay at TSN's daily sportscasts over the following three decades, often hosting evening or late night editions of SportsCentre alongside Rod Smith or Jennifer Hedger. He was the host of TSN's Olympic Prime Time coverage during the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics. He was also the co-host with Canadian trainer and cutman Russ Anber in the boxing programme In This Corner.
Death
On September 9, 2021, he announced that he had prostate cancer, and detailed it in full a year later in his first show back at SportsCentre. Dutchyshen died on May 15, 2024, at the age of 57. According to a family statement, he was "surrounded by his closest loved ones". Following his death, some media outlets noted that Dutchyshen had quietly been in a long-term relationship with fellow TSN sportscaster Kate Beirness.