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June 28 is the last day for these two at TSN , they did separate interviews last week with Sports Illustrated.

Canadian sports broadcasters Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole will host their final TSN Sportcentre on June 28. The following week, they'll be in Los Angeles to start their new broadcasting adventure: The duo will serve as the primary highlight readers for the upcoming Fox Sports Live program on Fox Sports 1. Their first day on the air comes Aug. 17, the date the new network launches in about 90 million homes.

In separate interviews with SI.com this week, both Onrait and O'Toole said Fox Sports executives have given them a rough outline of what they envision for Fox Sports Live, the new network's challenger to ESPN's SportsCenter, The show will air daily from Los Angeles from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. ET and Onrait and O'Toole will work Monday through Thursday with the following setup: Charissa Thompson and a still-to-be-determined panel will appear on one side of the studio, and Onrait and O'Toole will be on the other side doing highlights. The day's sports schedule will determine how much airtime each grouping gets during a show. Onrait and O'Toole will also co-host a 90-minute Fox Sports Live show on Sunday night, as well as continue their popular podcast.

"Charissa will be the star of the show, let's be honest," Onrait said. "We'll be sliding in and hanging out in the corner like Chris Elliott did [on "Late Night with David Letterman"] all those years ago."

Fox first approached the duo last August at the London Olympics (Onrait and O'Toole hosted a two-hour show for TSN from Trafalgar Square), and the duo flew to Los Angeles two months later for further discussions. As negotiations heated up, the anchors talked daily (along with their producer, who is joining them at Fox) and made a joint decision to take the new job. "When they [TSN] saw the offer, they said they did not think they could match it," O'Toole said. "But talking with all of our bosses, they were almost of the mindset they did not want to keep us from this opportunity. It was like, 'Guys, you have to try this.' It is a whole new audience that we can hopefully entertain. As opposed to a country of just over 30 million, we will be in 90 million homes. It's just staggering the amount of eyeballs we can potentially reach."

Both Onrait and O'Toole said they were overwhelmed by the amount of messages they have received from Canadians, including a tweet of support from Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. "When you are in a studio in Scarborough, Ontario at 1 a.m. doing a show, you don't lose track of who you are broadcasting to, but you forget that show is repeating for 12 hours across the entire country, and countless families wake up with it," OToole said.

O'Toole is married with two daughters, one five years old, the other two. He said he and his wife went back and forth about uprooting a comfortable life in Ontario (O'Toole was born and raised on a pig farm in Peterborough, Ontario; Onrait is from Athabasca, Alberta, a town of 3,000 in the Canadian prairie). "My wife likes California wine, so I kept stressing that," O'Toole said. "That was one of my sales tactics. It will honestly be a new adventure every day."

I asked each of the new Fox Sports 1 anchors to provide a one-sentence description of the other:

Said Onrait of O'Toole: "Unable to concentrate on one thing for more than five seconds."

Said O'Toole of Onrait: "Extremely talented and extremely strange."

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