Alex J. Walling
Alex J. Walling also known as A.J. Walling is a major sports analyst in Atlantic Canada. He also contributes weekly to a sports column on www.tsn.ca, A.J. was Atlantic Canada's first TSN sports reporter for nine years. and he is daily on Halifax Information Radio (97.9 FM radio). Never afraid to "tell it like it is," Alex has been observering Atlantic University football for over two decades. AJ has covered major professional sporting events, including the 1972 Summit Series where he was one of the first to talk to Paul Henderson, moments after the historic goal. He is also active in covering sports from the High School level and began by covering the 1973 High School Provincial Football Championship featuring the Queen Elizabeth Lions Football team.
Wallings distinctive voice is well known by all Nova Scotians, and many Atlantic Canadians as well, and is considered as the top resident sports expert, above local gurus Harv Stewart and Cecil Wright. Walling was the first Halifax-based sports anchor at MITV (now Global Maritimes) when it went on the air in 1988. In 1994 Alex J. had a television sports talk show on a Halifax community local station the show's name was A.J. Harv & company. a one hour call in sports show. A.J. left the show in May 2000 to enjoy his retirement from television, radio & newsprint.
Walling has been around the Nova Scotia sports scene since arriving in 1972. His first major assignment as the first full time sports director of radio station CHNS was to travel to Edmonton, Alberta and cover Dartmouth Dairy Queen in the National Softball title. In fact Walling arrived in Halifax in the zenith of this sport. From 70-75 crowds of several thousanda witnessed the likes of Keiths, Mooseheads, Brookfield and DDQ in stellar competition.
Walling started the first full time sports talk show on CHNS early in his radio career. The show ran on Sunday nights from 10:30 till midnight or past midnight.
Walling continues to be an innovator and trailblazer in sports journalism, essentially pioneering the "one-sentence paragraph."
External links
- Can Smu Make it a Clean Sweep? - By Alex J. Walling
- MacKinnon the second coming of Sid the Kid - By Alex J. Walling