Editing Foster Hewitt (section)

==Early life and early career==
Born in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Hewitt attended [[Upper Canada College]] and the [[University of Toronto]] where he was a member of the Toronto chapter of the [[Beta Theta Pi]] fraternity. He was a champion [[boxing|boxer]] in his student years, winning the intercollegiate title at 112 pounds.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Hewitt developed an early interest in the radio and as a teenager accompanied his father, [[W. A. Hewitt]], on a trip to [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]], to see a demonstration of radio technology sponsored by [[General Electric]].{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

He took a job with Independent Telephone Company, which manufactured radios, and left that job and university when his father—the sports editor of the ''[[Toronto Star|Toronto Daily Star]]''—told him that the ''Star'' was going to start its own [[radio station]]. Hewitt became a reporter at the paper, and was ready to go on the air when [[CFCA (AM)|CFCA]] was launched. CFCA's first hockey broadcast was on February 8, 1923, although it was colleague [[Norman Albert]] who performed the [[play-by-play]].<ref>Kitchen, p.246</ref> Hewitt's first broadcast likely was February 16, of a game between the Toronto [[Argonaut Rowing Club]] and the [[Kitchener Greenshirts]].<ref name="Potts 1996"/> Hewitt recalled the date as being March 22 in his own book,<ref name="hewitt-25">Hewitt (1967), p. 25</ref> although there was no game scheduled for that night at the [[Arena Gardens]]. Hewitt's book also mentioned his first broadcast as being of a game between Parkdale and Kitchener, and the Argonaut Club was based in [[Parkdale, Toronto|Parkdale]], a neighbourhood of Toronto.<ref name="hewitt-25"/> He also mentioned that game as going into overtime which the Argonaut-Kitchener game did.<ref name="hewitt-25"/>

On May 24, 1925, Hewitt and his father made what was said to be the world's first broadcast of a [[horse racing|horse race]].{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

In 1927, he was invited as guest announcer to broadcast the first game from the new [[Detroit Olympia]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Krupa |first=Gregg |title=Wings take a page from Olympia with intimate feel at LCA |url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2017/10/04/wings-take-page-olympia-intimate-feel-lca/106283334/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=The Detroit News |language=en-US}}</ref>

Hewitt was part of the opening night ceremonies for [[Maple Leaf Gardens]] on November 12, 1931, and the specially designed broadcast "gondola" where Hewitt would broadcast from was brought into the plans with his input, and the blessings of then [[Toronto Maple Leafs]] owner [[Conn Smythe]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Excerpt from The Lives of Conn Smythe |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/215726/the-lives-of-conn-smythe-by-kelly-mcparland/9780771056840/excerpt |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=Penguin Random House Canada |language=English}}</ref>