MARIO CECCHINI

THE QMJHL’S COMMISSIONER DISCUSSES HIS BEGINNINGS IN THE SPORTS INDUSTRY AND FINDING A BALANCE BETWEEN SERVING THE OWNERS AND THE PLAYERS

WITH W. GRAEME ROUSTAN

W. GRAEME ROUSTAN: You’ve got an interesting background. You didn’t just walk in the door and become the commissioner. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about your background? MARIO CECCHINI: I went to school in Ottawa and started right off the bat. I was very lucky. I got offered a job at 20 years old at CKAC. It started in 1922, so it is very prestigious. The company was called Telemedia at the time and had the play-by-play of the Expos. Right away, in my young career in radio, I was really hooked on sports. My first job directly connected with sports was producing ‘Les Amateurs de sports’ in the fall of 1992, which I still think it’s because I produced it that the Canadiens won that Cup that…

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