Rob Faulds

{{short description|Canadian sportscaster on Sportsnet|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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|name=Rob Faulds

|image=Rob Faulds.jpg

|caption=Rob Faulds in 2014

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1955|9|29}}

|birth_place=Hamilton, Ontario

|occupation=sportscaster, sports announcer

|employer=Sportsnet

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Rob Faulds (born September 29, 1955) is a Canadian sportscaster on Sportsnet.

Faulds graduated from Western University and started his broadcasting career at CFPL (AM) in London, Ontario.{{cite web |last1=Brodie |first1=Jonathon |title=Community behind the Rogers Sports Celebrity Dinner |url=https://www.insidehalton.com/community-story/4349362-community-behind-the-rogers-sports-celebrity-dinner/ |website=InsideHalton.com |date=February 4, 2014}} He then worked for CKSO radio and covered the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1994 Winter Olympics on location for CTV before joining CTV Sports full-time in 1995.{{cite web |title=Rob Faulds - CKSO AM, FM And TV Personalities & Biographies |url=https://www.ckso.com/index.php/personalities-bios/rob-faulds |website=CKSO.com |accessdate=11 December 2013}}

In 1998, Faulds was part of the original Sportsnet team and would go on to host the network's flagship sports news program Sportsnetnews (later re-branded as Sportsnet Central). From 2001 to 2004, he did play-by-play for Toronto Blue Jays telecasts on Sportsnet and has called regional National Hockey League telecasts for the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens. His home run call for the Blue Jays was "Whattaya think about that?".{{cite web |title=Home Run Calls by Baseball Almanac |url=https://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quohomer.shtml |website=Baseball-Almanac.com}} In the past, he has also called National Lacrosse League games for the network.{{cite web |title=Sportsnet Announcement |url=https://torontorock.com/sportsnet_announcement/ |website=TorontoRock.com}} Faulds currently calls curling[http://usacurl.org/athletes/lukowich.html Lukowich is new USA Curling athlete development director] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060409155020/http://usacurl.org/athletes/lukowich.html |date=April 9, 2006 }} and tennis, including the Davis Cup and Canadian Open for Sportsnet.{{cite web |title=Canada Looks to Make Tennis History at Davis Cup |url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/canada-looks-to-make-tennis-history-at-davis-cup-this-weekend-on-sportsnet/ |website=Sportsnet.ca |date=April 4, 2013}}{{cite web |title=Sportsnet serves multiplatform Rogers Cup coverage to tennis fans |url=https://cartt.ca/article/sportsnet-serves-multiplatform-rogers-cup-coverage-tennis-fans |website=Cartt.ca |date=August 7, 2015}}

On the CTV series Power Play, Faulds was the play-by-play voice of the fictitious Hamilton Steelheads. Faulds served as a fill-in host for the radio talk-show Prime Time Sports when regular host Bob McCown was unable to appear.