David Amber leaves ESPN to return to Canadian TV
It wasn't a trade, but it almost looks like one.
Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment is expected to announce today that David Amber is leaving ESPN to join Raptors NBA TV as its main anchor. Amber will replace Adnan Virk, who left the anchor job earlier this year to join -- you guessed it -- ESPN.
MLSE broadcast head Chris Hebb confirmed that Amber will join the channel in October, anchoring pre-game and post-game shows and handling other desk duties with NBA properties. ``This is a good move for David and a good move for us," Hebb said.
Amber said he welcomed the opportunity to work in his hometown ``with a growing broadcast entity."
``I'm looking forward to to being part of the broadcast crew for a team I've followed since its inception," he said.
Amber has been at ESPN since 2002 after leaving TSN, where he worked as an anchor and reporter. Among his gigs was doing sideline reporting at Raptors games. He worked as an anchor there, but recently returned to reporting so he could work out of his Toronto home and be closer to his family.
Wow.
David Amber is coming back.
Thats great!
One question.
Who is David Amber?
Posted by: Rick Grace | 07/22/2010 at 01:05 PM
Amber hit the "politely"
End of the line at ESPN
Raptors tv at a HUGE pay cut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Bob Sakamano | 07/22/2010 at 02:23 PM
well,raptors tv or teaching at humber college
two great life choices
Posted by: Bob Sakamano | 07/22/2010 at 02:28 PM
well teaching at humber college or raptors tv
good life choices
Posted by: Sam from Scarbrough | 07/22/2010 at 02:31 PM
Anybody is an improvement over adnan
e bishop
Posted by: eugene bishop | 07/22/2010 at 02:35 PM
WOW this is great
Amber is the best ever
Posted by: Bill G. Paul | 07/22/2010 at 02:43 PM
Come on, who is David Amber, he played QB for the Sacramento Goldminers in the CFL. LOL
Posted by: Dave | 07/22/2010 at 02:57 PM
Welcome, David. Break a leg!
Posted by: mdc | 07/22/2010 at 07:35 PM
David's a class act and very good at what he does, a great score (something he couldn't do as a Jarvisite on the grid-iron...but maybe that because I was throwing him the ball). Welcome back DA!).
Posted by: Raptoronto | 07/23/2010 at 03:01 PM
That Rick is a regular reader of a sports media blog, and yet has never heard of David Amber, is completely unsurprising. It is Rick, after all.
Posted by: Peter Brown | 07/23/2010 at 06:06 PM