TORONTO – TSN announced today radio host and mental health advocate Michael Landsberg (above) is leaving TSN 1050 Toronto, where he has co-hosted the daily morning show First up With Landsberg and Colaiacovo for the past five years.
Landsberg has worked at TSN since 1984, working as an anchor for Sportscentre, originally SportsDesk, and then helming TSN’s Off the Record beginning in 1997. He has hosted Olympic programming and has been nominated twice for Gemini Awards in the category of best host or interviewer in a sports program or sportscast.
Landsberg has also been nominated for and won awards for his work as a mental health advocate. In 2015, “he was honoured with the Canadian Screen Award Humanitarian Award,” and his documentary Darkness and Hope: Depression, Sports and Me was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award nomination in 2013, according to a press release.
“Landsberg has spoken publicly about his personal battle with depression, including as an ambassador for the Bell Let’s Talk initiative,” the press release reads. He also founded SickNotWeak in 2009 as a way “to build awareness that mental illness is a sickness, not a weakness, and to help both those suffering from mental illness and those caring for them.”
In 2017, Landsberg was awarded a Meritorious Service Medal by Governor General David Johnston, an award “given to Canadians who have performed exceptional deeds,” for his work with Bell Let’s Talk and SickNotWeak, the press release says.
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