FanDuel Sports Network Detroit is saying goodbye to another longtime local sports-media personality.
Trevor Thompson, who has been with the network since 2000, confirmed to The Detroit News on Wednesday afternoon that his position also has been eliminated, suffering the same fate of Mickey York, who posted on social media a day earlier that his time as a full-time employee at the regional-sports network has come to an end.
Thompson declined further comment at this time.
“I prefer to talk about it at a later date,” he told The News.
Thompson most recently has covered the Red Wings and Tigers for the RSN, working through a number of title-company changes, from Fox Sports Detroit to Bally Sports Detroit to, now, FanDuel Sports Network Detroit.
His time as a full-time employee came to an end after the end of the Red Wings’ regular season.
FanDuel Sports Network’s parent company, Diamond Sports Group, emerged from lengthy bankruptcy proceedings in January, with a slimmed-down business model that included reduced rights-fee payments for a number of teams, including the Tigers.
The Tigers and Red Wings, both owned by the Ilitches, have taken more control of their broadcasts and before this Tigers season named Daniella Bruce its pregame and postgame host and reporter for Tigers and Wings games. The Ilitch organization has said it plans to hire another host and reporter, who, like Bruce, will be paid by the teams, not FanDuel Sports Network. There has been no announcement of that hire; Johnny Kane and Natalie Kerwin have occasionally joined the Tigers’ broadcasts this season, and are expected to continue doing that for the foreseeable future.
The future for Kane, who has long covered the Tigers and Pistons, and Kerwin still haven’t been disclosed. Kane, who covered the Pistons through their first-round playoff exit, has declined comment to The News.
Since the end of the Wings’ and Pistons’ regular seasons, FanDuel Sports Network Detroit has said goodbye to John Keating, who announced in December his plans to retire, as well as York, who covered the Pistons and Tigers, and Thompson. That’s more than 75 years of experience. Kirk Gibson, the Tigers’ legend who spent 15 years in the broadcast booth over two different stints, also didn’t return for the 2025 season in a move the Tigers said was mutual. FDSN Detroit also has eliminated front-office positions, including vice president and executive producer Jeff Byle.
Thompson, 58, joined Detroit’s RSN in 2000, after two-plus years as a reporter for CTV Sportsnet in Toronto, where, he covered the Maple Leafs, Raptors, Blue Jays and Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. Before that, he worked in Vancouver, where he was an in-house announcer and sideline reporter for the Grizzlies and Canucks.
He’s been in the business for three decades, including 25 in Detroit, where he used to put his hockey skills up against Red Wings greats like Pavel Datsyuk and Dylan Larkin in a popular segment called “Trev Takes On.” He won seven Emmys, and in 2020 he was awarded the Ty Tyson Award from the Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association.
Thompson recently joined the “Bleav in Lions” podcast as a co-host along with ex-Lion Glover Quin.
Thompson, a Farmington Hills resident, grew up in Dresden in southwest Ontario, and last month, he was honored by the Dresden Sports Hall of Fame. He graduated from Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario, where he played basketball. He also attended what was formerly Ryerson University in Toronto.
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