Ryan Rishaug

Rishaug was born in Sherwood Park, Alberta.[4] Before entering sports broadcasting, he played 47 games in the WHL hockey league, at right wing on the Kamloops Blazers.[5] He attended the Broadcast Communications program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.[6]

Rishaug began his broadcasting career in 1998, as a sports reporter at CFJC-TV in Kamloops, British Columbia.[7] He also worked as a sports anchor and reporter for CTV's Sudbury-based MCTV from 1999 to 2000 and as a sports anchor for Global Television in Saskatoon in 2000.

Rishaug joined CTV's CFRN in 2000, serving as the station's weekend sports anchor before moving to the weekday 6 p.m. sports anchor desk.[8] He also appeared on TSN as a sideline reporter for the network's CFL Friday Night Football telecasts in 2003.[9]

In 2004, Rishaug was named TSN's new Edmonton reporter for SportsCentre, after veteran TSN reporter Ken Chilibeck retired from the position.[10] He reports on the Edmonton Oilers, the Edmonton Eskimos, and any other sports from the Edmonton area.[11] He also currently hosts The Morning Mandate with Ryan Rishaug every weekday at 8:30 a.m. on TSN 1260, a segment on The Nielson Show hosted by TSN's Dustin Nielson.[12]

In April 2019, Rishaug reported and fronted the TSN original documentary 29 Forever, which tells the story of the 2017-18 Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team in honour of the one-year anniversary of the 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash.[13]

• Rishaug Bio at TSN
• Ryan Rishaug career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database