Bill Good Sr.


William R. Good Sr. was a Canadian radio sports broadcaster, most noted as the winner of ACTRA's ACTRA [Foster Hewitt Award|Foster Hewitt Award] for excellence in sports broadcasting at the 4th [ACTRA Awards] in 1975.
A native of Wilkie, Saskatchewan, Good began his career as a newspaper sports reporter in Regina and Winnipeg in the late 1930s before moving to Vancouver in 1948. He first became nationally known as a curling commentator and announcer for CBC Radio. By the time of his retirement, he had covered The Brier 48 times.
He was also a football commentator for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League, hosting the first post-game show on CBC Vancouver in the 1950s and helping to create a football show for CKVU in the 1970s upon that station's launch in the 1970s. He was also a regular part of broadcast teams for the Canadian Open Golf Championship.
He was inducted into the Canadian [Football Hall of Fame]'s media division in 1982, the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame as a builder in 1992, and the BC [Sports Hall of Fame]'s media division in 2002.
His son Bill Good Jr. is also a retired Canadian television journalist, best known as a longtime radio and television news anchor on stations in the Vancouver market.