Peter Walsh (sports broadcaster)
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Peter Walsh OAM is a sports commentator for ABC Radio Grandstand and is based in Adelaide, Australia.[1]
Walsh grew up in Ballarat, Victoria and had a passion for sport from a very early age.
His first media job was working in radio at Ballarat station 3BA, where he covered junior football and was then given the chance to write for the Ballarat Courier newspaper.
He is known for his love of the Hawthorn Football Club and has hosted three counts for the club.
Sport coverage
He covered sport in Ballarat and Bendigo for five years, before being approached by the ABC to cover VFL football in Melbourne and called his first match during the season of 1978 Fitzroy v South Melbourne at the Junction Oval.
In 1981, he secured a spot on the football broadcast team at 3GL (now K Rock) and called football with the great Ted Whitten and was a member of the 3GL team for three years of "bliss" as Peter describes it.
He moved to Tasmania in 1985 after the ABC appointed him to a permanent position where he called Tasmanian Football League matches on 7ZR as well as cricket and the now defunct Tassie Devils NBL basketball matches and has been based in Adelaide since late 1999.