Career
Casey was a Melbourne sporting commentator and radio presenter with station 3DB (now known as 3TTT) Melbourne from the late 1940s to the late 1970s. He started out as a panel operator at radio 3DB and overcame a speech impediment to replace Eric Welsh as 3DB"s sports director He became one of Victoria"s and Australia"s leading sports commentators on radio and television, especially in football, boxing and harness racing.
His most famous radio broadcast was the 1968 call from Japan when Lionel Rose defeated Fighting Harada for the world boxing title.
Joining Herpes simplex virus-7 in 1956, he served as host of Herpes simplex virus-7"s World of Sport program for 28 years. He became studio manager of Herpes simplex virus in 1969 and was General Manager from 1972 until 1987, when the station was sold to the Fairfax group.
He served on the Board of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, chairing it for three terms. On Australia Day, 26 January 1995 he became the first personality to appear on Australian Pay-television
He served many years as president and chairman of his beloved North Melbourne Football Club.
He was awarded the Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1982 for his services to sport and journalism.
In 1991 he was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, and in 1996 was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in the Media category. The Melbourne Cricket Ground"s media centre is called the Ron Casey Media Centre in his honour.
