[2][3] He now currently hosts The Bob McCown podcast on his YouTube channel, which is also broadcast on satellite radio station Sirius XM weekdays from 6-7 p.m.[4] McCown made his broadcast debut in 1975 as host of a nightly sports talk show on Foster Hewitt's CKFH, where he had been working in its sales department since being hired the previous year.
[5] He would add to his resume in 1977, assuming adjunct employment as the public address announcer at Toronto Blue Jays' home games during their inaugural season.
McCown left that same year for Global TV in Toronto where in November 1981 he would launch and anchor Sportsline,[6] before moving on later in the decade to host TSN's The Business of Sports.
[8] 1995 turned out to be one of the most tumultuous in McCown's career as he was fired only to be re-hired a month later to once again host PTS after Shulman left to become the Blue Jays' play-by-play announcer on TSN.
[8] For the rest of the decade, he would host PTS at times during winter from his Las Vegas home while simultaneously smoking and spending commercial breaks on his couch.
[11] McCown launched fadoo.com in March 2009 with the goal to "provide a platform for dialogue and comment among people of power and influence in the sports world.
I’ll be back!”[3][16] The Canadian Press reports that it is currently unknown if he chose to leave or was forced out, but McCown had just signed a multi-year contract extension in December 2017.
Though born in the United States (his father Robert served in the USAF and stationed in Columbus, Ohio), he also grew up in Scarborough, Ontario as a child, playing house league in the Dorset Park neighbourhood[21] and went to Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute with former Toronto Star reporter Dave Perkins.