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Four years after making their move south of the border, Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole have been let go by Fox Sports.

Could a return to TSN be in the works? The duo were a very, very popular feature of TSN’s SportsCentre programming. They brought a wry sense of humour to every project they were involved with and built a mass following.

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Here’s the thing: the sports news landscape has changed. Nightly highlights shows don’t do the numbers they once did. Fox Sports 1 in general struggled to pull numbers away from ESPN, and ESPN itself has seen its numbers decline overall. Onrait and O’Toole were hired to lead FS1’s main highlights show and the hope was their personalities would draw viewers away from ESPN. It didn’t work. American TV numbers just don’t work like they did at the height of the Olbermann/Patrick era.

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