BRIAN WILLIAMS
Considered the dean of
Canadian sports commentators, with more than a quarter of a century of
broadcast experience, Williams maintains a youthful exuberance that is
appreciated by fans of every sport he covers.
Over the years he
has covered 11 Olympic Games beginning in Montreal in 1976. The Athens
2004 Olympic Summer Games marked Williams’ tenth Olympic hosting
assignment for the network.
In June 2003, Williams
hosted the new CFL ON CBC Pre-Game Show along with Darren Flutie, Sean
Millington and Greg Frers. It is a role he reprised this season.
In July 2003, Williams was
in Prague when the IOC announced that Vancouver/Whistler had won the bid
for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. He also fronted Vancouver 2010:
Inside the Bid a behind-the-scenes documentary about the bid
process.
In the fall of 2000, prior to the
Olympic Games in Australia, Williams hosted The Olympians: A
Century of Canadian Heroes, a documentary series chronicling
the stories of Canadians who have made a mark on the Olympic stage.
Having covered virtually every professional and major amateur sports
event around the globe, Williams’ broadcasting style has won numerous
awards and praise from critics. Williams took home his sixth Gemini
Award in the Best Sports Broadcaster category for his work at the 2000
Olympic Summer Games an honour that was bestowed upon him the previous
year for his hosting role at the 1999 Pan Am Games. In 1998, Williams
also won the Gemini for his work as the prime-time host at the 1998
Nagano Olympics. He has also earned the Foster Hewitt Award twice.
Williams has also
hosted Grey Cup Weekend, Formula 1 Racing, World Cup skiing, World
Figure Skating Championships, World Junior Hockey Championships, horse
racing, championship golf and tennis. He also provided play-by-play
coverage of Blue Jays Baseball on CBC.
Born in Winnipeg,
Williams is a political science honors graduate of Aquinas College in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. He began calling university basketball
play-by-play in 1967, and started his professional career in radio with
Toronto’s CHUM. After a year at CFRB Radio in Toronto, he joined CBC
Television’s Toronto station, CBLT.
Williams lives in Toronto with his wife and three daughters.
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