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Pierre Dufault was born on 5 November, 1934 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian journalist and sports commentator. Discover Pierre Dufault's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Occupation Journalist, sports commentator
Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 5 November 1934
Birthday 5 November
Birthplace Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1934

Pierre Dufault (born November 5, 1934) is a Canadian former journalist and sports commentator.

He began as a political correspondent and reporter for the Canadian Football League (CFL) in radio at CKCH then on television at CBOFT-DT.

Dufault was born on November 5, 1934, in the Lower Town neighbourhood of Ottawa.

1948

He became interested in Canadian football in 1948 at the 36th Grey Cup.

1952

He started in journalism in 1952, writing for Ottawa's French language daily newspaper, Le Droit.

Dufault later said he was fired a few months into the job for not being competent enough.

He subsequently studied at the University of Ottawa.

1955

Dufault worked in radio at CKCH in Hull, Quebec, from 1955 to 1964, where he started as a reporter then eventually became the director.

During his tenure at CKCH, he began a career covering the Canadian Football League (CFL), and was a political correspondent for 22 municipal, provincial and federal elections.

1964

He then worked for Radio-Canada at CBOFT-DT in Ottawa from 1964 to 1972.

1968

CBOFT-DT broadcast French language coverage of the 1968 Canadian federal election on short notice when a conflict arose the day before the election between Radio-Canada in Montreal and the local journalists' union.

Dufault was phoned at home 50 minutes before the broadcast was to begin and rushed to the studios as an emergency news anchor.

According to Dufault, station management congratulated him for a job well done the next day, but had been uninformed of his prior work as a political correspondent.

He also stated that his coverage of the 1968 Canadian federal election and the Munich massacre were days he would never forget.

He 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.

Dufault is a nephew of artist and writer Ernest Dufault, better known by the alias Will James.

He is also related to singer Luce Dufault.

1972

He 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.

Dufault joined the sports department for Radio-Canada in 1972.

He was a radio broadcaster for the Olympic Games from 1972 until 1980, then worked television broadcasts for the Olympic Games until 1998.

1974

He also 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.

1979

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.

1980

He hosted the CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award presentations in the 1980s and was president of Football Reporters of Canada in 1984.

1984

He 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.

1993

He became the late night sports report host for Radio-Canada in 1993.

1996

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.

2018

In a 2018 interview with Le Droit, Dufault recalled that he pieced together an eight-minute radio report of what happened in the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics, and claimed to have been the first reporter at the scene.