An interesting hockey media development yesterday was longtime Sportsnet hockey reporter Chris Johnston departing the Rogers-owned network for a new platform where he will appear in The Star. Johnston was one of the cornerstones of Sportsnet’s hockey broadcast team, regularly appearing on Hockey Night in Canada’s Headlines intermission segment, and also for regular hits on Sportsnet’s radio stations and podcasts.
Johnston’s premier on The Star website included waxing nostalgic about reading the sports section when he was a child, and even later in life, at j-school when he would hang around the media gate of the arena to get a glimpse of and a chance to talk to one of the Leafs beat writers from The Star.