Fanduel Sports Network Detroit says goodbye to another long -standing local personality.
Trevor Thompson, who has worked in the network since 2000, confirmed on Wednesday afternoon in Detroit News after his post was also eliminated, undergoing the same fate of Mickey York, which posted on social networks one day earlier than its full-time employee time of the regional-Sports network ended.
Thompson has refused other comments at the moment.
“I prefer to talk about it on a later date,” he told The News.
Thompson recently covered Red Wings and Tigers for the RSN, working through a number of title company changes, Fox Sports Detroit in Bally Sports Detroit in, now, Fanduel Sports Network Detroit.
His full -time employee time ended after the end of the regular Red Wings season.
The mother company of Fanduel Sports Network, Diamond Sports Group, emerged from a long bankruptcy procedure in January, with a reduced business model which included reduced rights payments for a number of teams, including tigers.
The Tigers and the Red Wings, both detained by the Ilitches, took more control of their shows and before this season of the Tigers named Daniella Bruce, his host and post-match journalist for the Tigers and Wings matches. The Ilitch organization said that it was planning to hire another host and journalist who, like Bruce, will be paid by the teams, and not Fanduel Sports Network. There was no announcement of this rental; Johnny Kane and Natalie Kerwin have sometimes joined Tigers' shows this season and should continue to do so in the foreseeable future.
The future of Kane, who has long covered tigers and pistons, and Kerwin has still not been disclosed. Kane, who covered the pistons when they released the playoffs in the first round, refused to comment on the news.
Since the end of the regular seasons of Wings and Pistons, the sports network of Fanduel Detroit said goodbye to John Keating, who announced in December his retirement plans, as well as York, which covered the pistons and tigers, and Thompson. This represents more than 75 years of experience. Kirk Gibson, the legend of tigers who spent 15 years in the broadcast stand on two different stays, was not returned for the 2025 season in a movement that the tigers said they were mutual. The FDSN Detroit also eliminated the front-office positions, notably the vice-president and executive producer Jeff Byle.
Thompson, 58, joined Detroit RSN in 2000, after two years and more as a journalist for CTV Sportsnet in Toronto, where he covered the Maple Leafs, Raptors, Blue Jays and Argonauts from the Canadian Football League. Before that, he worked in Vancouver, where he was an internal advertiser and a touch journalist for the grizzly guys and the cannucks.
He has been part of the company for three decades, including 25 in Detroit, where he used to put his skills in hockey against big Red Wings like Pavel Datsyuk and Dylan Larkin in a popular segment called “Trev take place”. He won seven Emmys and in 2020, he received the Ty Tyson Prize from Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association.
Thompson recently joined the Podcast “Bleav in Lions” as a co-host with the former Glover Lion.
Thompson, a resident of Farmington Hills, grew up in Dresden in southwest Ontario, and last month, he was honored by the temple of Dresden's sports renown. He graduated from the Constoga College of Kitchener, Ontario, where he played basketball. He also attended what was previously the Ryerson University of Toronto.
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