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GLOBAL Television viewers wili be seeing a lot of North Vancouver's Blake Price in the future. Price has
signed on to be the station’s regular Saturday night sports anchor.

The Price of Giebal sports

Jan-Christian Sorensen demo tape chat was made dur- fine-tune his style. rapidly,” said Froelich, who
Contributing Writer ing Price’s tenure at BCIT. “When he came back again assigned Price the Saskatoon
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The North Vancouver
native made his small screen
debut in this. market as the
anchor of Saturday night's 6
p.m. Global sports broadcast.
He also helmed the desk for
Sunday’s half-hour Sports Page
program, which airs at 11 p.m.
Price, 25, graduated from
Handsworth secondary school
1 1992 and went on to study
at BCIT before grabbing an
internship with CKWX News : 1
radin 1130, where he did regu- ? ; the Ne
lar_taffic and news reports Rises geen iy Saag ae
before moving onto sports sini
updates.
During fast summer he also
toiled av Sports Page doing
some writing and. producing
work as anintern,
In mid-October he emigrat-
ed to the Global Saskatoon
affiliate station to anchor a half-
hour program called Sportline.
Six months later, he’s back
on the North Shore and Jook-
ing forward to. covering the
beat in his home town:
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stay in this market as long as 1 | i ; 4 7a!
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which makes him a good match
for Vancouver’s two major
franchises.
“J chink chere’s a litle bit of
uncertainty in the pro ranks as
faras the Grizzlies and Canucks
go and. whether we can afford
them,” he said.
Price believes the Western
Hockey League (WHL) expan-
sion ream that will begin play in
Vancouver in the fall of 2001 [Hearagass ae
will offer fans a more affordable aves
alternative. : 7
He’s also heard rumblings
that the Saskatoon Blades of
the WHL may soon be de:
ing the prairies for a new
Chilliwack address. :
George. Froclich, executive |
producer at Global, said he first
recognized his new anchor’s
potential when he was given a

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