Pete Van Wieren

TURNER SPORTS

The 2005 Major League Baseball season marks Van Wieren's 30th as a play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Braves on TBS, tying him with Skip Caray for seniority on the Braves announcing team. In addition, Van Wieren calls the action for the Braves games on Turner South, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.'s regional entertainment network. This is his sixth consecutive year Van Wieren will call games on Turner South.

In 2004, Van Wieren was inducted into the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame, along with fellow announcer Skip Caray.

Wieren also serves as the Atlanta Braves play-by-play announcer for WGST-AM (640) and WKLS-FM (96.1).

In 2000, Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell declared July 30th "Skip Caray and Pete Van Wieren" Day in honor of their 25 years of broadcasting with the Braves.

Van Wieren served as a play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Hawks on TBS Superstation from 1991-94. He has also worked NBA games for TNT and TBS.

In 1985-86, he served as a play-by-play announcer on TBS Big Ten Conference college football games. Since joining the network in 1975, he has covered the Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey League, the Hawks and the Atlanta Falcons NFL pre-season football. He also has served as a sports reporter for CNN.

CAREER

Prior to joining Turner, he began his broadcasting career working as the play-by-play man for the Tidewater Tides of the International League for two years. He has also broadcast hockey, college and professional basketball and college and professional football.

He also has been a sportscaster for WDHO-TV, Toledo, OH; WNBF-AM/FM/TV and WINR-AM/TV, both in Binghamton, NY; WPRW-AM/FM, Manassas, VA; and WEER-AM/FM, Warrenton, VA.

PERSONAL

Born in Rochester, NY, and attended Cornell University.

He won his eighth Georgia Sportscaster of the Year Award from the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association in 1994, marking the seventh consecutive year he won the honor ('80, '88 - '94).

He was dubbed Atlanta's Favorite Sportscaster in 1977 by the Atlanta Journal.