Scott Oake Biography – Scott Oake Wiki
Scott Oake is a Gemini Award-winning Canadian sportscaster for CBC Sports, Sportsnet, and Hockey Night in Canada. In September 2020, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Manitoba. With his late wife Anne, they are the founders of the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre in Winnipeg, a rehabilitation facility in honour of their late son who died after an overdose in 2011.
His first job was working as a volunteer when he was a pre-medical student at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He volunteered at the campus radio station, which was his introduction to broadcasting. This quickly became his passion, and he decided to pursue a career in the radio and television field. After part-time work at CBC St. John’s, he was hired full-time by the network in 1974 and has been employed by CBC to this day. Upon being hired full-time by the CBC, Oake proceeded to drop out of Memorial University in St. John’s, a decision his father did not support.
He moved to Winnipeg and became the sports anchor on CBWT’s 24Hours from 1979 till about 1989. From there, he was hired by Hockey Night in Canada, the CBC’s flagship television program broadcasting National Hockey League (NHL) games to a national audience.
Oake is probably best known as a regular contributor to Hockey Night in Canada. Since the 2003–04 season, he has hosted the second game of HNIC’s Saturday night double-headers, first alongside Kelly Hrudey, then with Marc Crawford, then with Kevin Weekes, and now with Louie DeBrusk. Even though Oake remains with the CBC after Rogers Communications, the owners of Sportsnet networks bought the sole national rights for the 2014–15 season, Oake joined the Sportsnet’s national NHL coverage in June 2014. In addition to his Hockey Night role, he gains a new role as an ice-level reporter for Sportsnet’s Wednesday night games.
Along with hockey, he has covered many important sporting events including the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, CFL football, and many other sports. He won the 2003 “Best Host or Interviewer in a Sports Program or Sportscast” Gemini Award. In 2004, he hosted the hockey docudrama Making the Cut.
During his career, he has covered a total of 12 Olympic games for the CBC, including the 2008 Beijing Games where he did play-by-play for flatwater canoeing and rowing events. Oake has covered downhill skiing at every Winter Olympics from Calgary in 1988 to Sochi in 2014.
Scott Oake Age
He was born in 1953 in Sydney, Canada. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and raised in Sydney’s “Shipyards” neighborhood until the age of 14 when his family relocated to Newfoundland.
Scott Oake Wife
He was married to his late wife Anne Oake for a period of 41 years and they resided in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Anne Oake was the co-founder of Bruce Oake Recovery Centre in Winnipeg. She died on Monday, September 6, 2021, of an autoimmune liver disease Monday. She was 65. In a social media post, the addiction treatment facility said she died peacefully surrounded by family.
“Anne’s laugh, kindness and love will be remembered and cherished always by those who knew her,” they said. “Scott, Darcy and Leslie take solace that her vision for the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre became a reality, and her passion for saving others was realized.”
Thank you Anne for being a blessing to my son,” one person wrote. “You and Scott have been second parents. So heartbroken for your family and the community. RIP Anne. Condolences to Scott, Darcy and all whose lives she has touched.”
Scott Oake Children
With his wife, they had two children, Bruce Oake, and Darcy Oake. Darcy is a magician. He appeared in the 2014 edition of Britain’s Got Talent, advancing to the semi-finals and final, but he lost the competition to the singing group Collabro. Their first son Bruce died on March 29, 2011, at the age of 25 of a drug overdose. They named a recovery centre after him in Winnipeg called the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre.
Scott Oake Family
He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and raised in Sydney’s Shipyards neighbourhood until the age of 14 when his family relocated to Newfoundland. His father was employed as a steelworker at Sydney Steel Corporation.
Scott Oake Instagram
His Instagram handle is @scottoake.
