Eric Smith is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 sportscaster

Sportscaster

In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...

 on Fan 590

CJCL (AM)

CJCL is a Canadian sports radio station in Toronto, Ontario. Owned and operated by Rogers Communications, the station broadcasts at 590 kHz on the AM radio dial with a 50,000 watts transmitter and directional antenna concentrating its signal over the Toronto/Hamilton region...

 in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

. He is the colour analyst for Toronto Raptors

Toronto Raptors

The Toronto Raptors are a professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was established in 1995, along with the Vancouver Grizzlies, as part of the NBA's re-expansion...

 radio broadcasts as well as a full time sports talk radio host of his own show.

Smith works alongside play-by-play announcer, Paul Jones

Paul Jones (sportscaster)

Paul Jones is a Canadian sportscaster. He currently serves as the play-by-play voice for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association on the Fan 590 radio broadcasts in Toronto. He previously served as the colour analyst on Raptors radio broadcasts, a role he had during the Raptors'...

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Smith also serves as the host of the pre-game

Pre-game show

A pre-game show or pregame show is a TV or radio presentation that occurs immediately before the live broadcast of a major sporting event.Contents may include:http://miniunis.com/pregame* replayed highlights of each teams previous games....

, half-time

Halftime show

A halftime show is a performance given during halftime, the period between the first and second halves, or the second and third quarters, of a sporting event. Halftime shows are not given for sports with an irregular or indeterminate number of divisions , or for sports that do not have an extended...

, and post-game show

Post-game show

A post-game show or postgame show is a TV or radio presentation that occurs immediately after the live broadcast of a major sporting event.Contents may include:* replays of key moments in the game.* interviews with players, coaches and managers....

s on the Raptors radio broadcasts and he fills the role of Raptors beat reporter for the Fan 590 as well.

In addition to those duties, Smith hosts a weekly basketball show on the Fan 590, Hoops, which used to be simulcast on Raptors NBA TV

Raptors NBA TV

NBA TV Canada is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. .-History:In December 2000, MLSE was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for a category 2 digital specialty channel license...

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Smith and Jones appeared together on another show on Raptors NBA TV, Double Dribble from 2004–2009

Smith has been working at the Fan 590 and covering the Raptors in some capacity for more than 10 years. He used to work for Global TV sports as well, as their Raptors/NBA analyst. He can now be seen regularly throughout Toronto and Canada on various programs and networks like The Grill Room (SUN TV

CKXT-TV

CKXT-DT was a broadcast television station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and serving much of southern and eastern Ontario, owned by Quebecor Media through its Groupe TVA unit. At the time of the station's closure on November 1, 2011, the station was serving as an over-the-air simulcast of...

), Off The Record

Off The Record (TSN TV series)

Off the Record with Michael Landsberg, a.k.a. Off the Record or OTR, is a Canadian sports talk show on TSN hosted by Michael Landsberg...

(TSN

The Sports Network

The Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...

), and CBC Newsworld

CBC Newsworld

CBC News Network is a Canadian English language Category C specialty news channel owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. It is the world's third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in the United States and...

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Smith has a regular blog on the Fan 590's website and he also blogs 3–4 days per week for the Toronto Raptors website.

External links

• "The Eric Smith Show" page on FAN 590.com
• Eric Smith's blog on Fan 590
• Eric Smith's blog on the Toronto Raptors website