Jamie Campbell
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Jamie Campbell (born May 20, 1967) is a Canadian sportscaster for Sportnet.
He is now the host of the Toronto Blue Jays telecasts and has previously provided the play-by-play from 2005 to 2009.
Youth and education
Campbell, a boy from Oakville, Ontario, was born and raised in Oakville, Ontario, where his father was the public address announcer at many Oakville Blades hockey games.
His father brought him to a game in 1977, sparking a discussion with Minnesota Twins owner Lyman Bostock. A year later in Gary, Indiana, Bostock was killed. Campbell used to attend Blue Jays games as a youth.
Campbell adored Canadian Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve and later named one of his sons after him.
Campbell played Little League baseball at Wallace Park in Oakville. He attended Oakville Trafalgar High School, where he was a teammate and friend of future National Football League placekicker Steve Christie. He began studying at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in 1986, where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Arts in Radio and Television.
Early career
At age 20, Campbell got a job as librarian and runner for the Hockey Night in Canada archives where he worked with Don Cherry and Ron MacLean. In 1993 Campbell worked as a sportscaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Edmonton, Alberta. From 1997–1998, he worked with CJOH-TV in Ottawa, Ontario.
In 1998, Campbell was offered a job as an anchor with new cable network CTV Sportsnet (now Rogers Sportsnet) with whom he has remained ever since. He and Daren Millard hosted the station's first show, Sportscentral (later called Sportsnet Connected, now known as Sportsnet Central). As well as anchoring Sportsnet's news shows Campbell reported from a variety of events such as the Super Bowl and the Olympics. He gained play-by-play experience covering Canadian Football League and Arena Football League games. He also served as the station's in-studio host for Blue Jays broadcasts and Major League Baseball playoffs.