The BC Lions are excited to announce the addition of Lions Football Punjabi to our menu of audio broadcasts in 2024.
Beginning with Sunday’s regular season opener at the Toronto Argonauts, Harpreet Pandher and Taqdeer Thindal will call the action for all regular season and playoff games on Sher-E-Punjab Radio AM 600.
The duo returns after spearheading the CFL’s first-ever Punjabi radio broadcast on July 29, 2023 when the Lions prevailed 27-0 in Edmonton.
In a joint statement, Pandher and Thindal said: “Punjabi fans are passionate about sports and connecting to their community. This Lions Punjabi broadcast will be a stepping stone for bridging Punjabis to the game of football and representing their home team. We expect a vast range of Punjabis to tune into the broadcasts and are also humbled to be a part of this historic moment and excited to promote this great game.”
Both broadcasters are lower mainland born and raised. Pandher’s first Lions memory was a 1986 game against Edmonton with his father who was a proud fan and season ticket holder.
Thindal attended his first Lions game in 1999 with the team becoming a big staple of his love for sports from a young age. Pandher and Thindal joined Hockey Night In Canada Punjabi in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
Launched in 2000, Sher-E-Punjab Radio AM 600 broadcasts to the South Asian community in Greater Vancouver and Northwest Washington.
Bob Marjanovich and Giulio Caravatta are back for an eighth consecutive season in the booth and can be heard on 980 CKNW and the Lions Audio Network serving long-time affiliates including CFAX 1070 in Victoria, AM 1150 in Kelowna and Radio NL serving Kamloops, Ashcroft, Shuswap/Sorrento, Clearwater, Logan Lake, Blue River and Avola.
