Background
Marsden was born in Ottawa and attended Saint Patrick"s High School and the University of Ottawa, where he started his sportscasting career at local station CKOY.
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He also worked as host for the historic 1972 Canada-Soviet Union hockey Summit Series sports telecasts. He later became sports director at CFTO in Toronto, and became immersed in all local and national sporting events. He even appeared as "John Marsden" in an episode of Bizarre (filmed at CFTO), in a Super Dave Osborne stunt at Toronto"s CN Tower.
Fired in 1986 after a physical altercation with his boss Ted Stuebing.
After helping to rebuild and essentially help create the image for The Fan 590, he retired in 2004. Marsden spent most of his time in Florida due to what he felt was the socialization of Canadian society, but he continued to maintain a home in Toronto.
He returned in 1996 to live in Toronto with his family joining him and died of lung cancer on April 27, 2006, aged 69, at Sunnybrook and Women"s College Health Sciences Centre.
