Jim Van Horne

Jim Van Horne

Jim Van Horne (born David Melnyk on December 15, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian sports anchor.

Van Horne began his broadcasting career on CKMP in Midland, Ontario, in 1971. From 1972 to 1980, Van Horne was one of the top disc jockeys in Canada at 1050 CHUM in Toronto. He was named Billboard Magazines Disc Jockey of the year in 1972, the only Canadian to ever claim the honour. From 1980 to 1984, he was the late night Sports anchor for CFAC television in Calgary, while hosting the Calgary flames NHL broadcasts.He moved on to a long career with TSN where he was a sportsanchor from the beginning of that sports network's history in 1984 until 2001. He took a couple years off television and returned to TSN's rival sports network Rogers Sportsnet in 2003. Van Horne is currently an anchor for the NHL Network program, NHL on the Fly. He is also involved in corporate and media training at all levels. In 2008 he announced CBC's baseball and softball coverage at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Quotes

While on SportsDesk, Van Horne used two sayings to start the telecast on Wednesdays and Fridays:
* Wednesdays: "It's the mid-week version"
* Fridays: "'Who-Ha! The weekend is here"

External links

* [http://www.jimvanhorne.com Check out Jim's Website]
* [http://www.sportsnet.ca/talent/bio.jsp?bio=20060308_171733_4868 Rogers Sportsnet biography]
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* [http://www.legacygames.ubc.ca/thepoint/pdfs/141509.pdf A Tale of Two Hosts (UBC article on Jody Vance & Jim Van Horne)]


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