Jim Robson

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Jim Robson (b. January 17, 1935 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan) was a radio broadcaster for the Vancouver Canucks from 1970 to 1994. His family moved to British Columbia when he was eight years old and eventually graduated from Maple Ridge High School.

Robson started his career at the age of 17 covering senior men's basketball for CJAV radio station in Port Alberni. In 1955, Robson started working for CHUB radio in Nanaimo covering the Mann Cup lacrosse finals.

By 1956, Robson found himself in Vancouver covering the BC Lions football team, the Vancouver Mounties baseball team and the then WHL Vancouver Canucks hockey team on CKWX.

When the Vancouver Canucks became an NHL expansion team in 1970, Robson moved to CKNW where he was known as the voice of the Canucks for 24 years. During this period, Jim Robson did additional work for CBC's Hockey Night in Canada, covering the Stanley Cup finals in 1975, 1980 and 1982. In addition, he covered the NHL All-Star Games in New York, Los Angeles, Long Island, Philadelphia and Vancouver. He also covered the Vancouver Canucks on television broadcasts with BCTV, CTV and VTV. Robson was replaced as the main Canucks play-by-play announcer by John Shorthouse who still serves alongside Robson's colleague Tom Larscheid.

Off-the-air, Jim was involved in the community being in-demand as a guest speaker for numerous fund-raising dinners and banquets throughout the province of British Columbia. He served as a Director of the BC Benevolent Hockey Association and the Canucks Alumni.

Jim became inducted to numerous halls of fame, such as the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992, the B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame in 1998 and the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame in 2000.

In 2002, at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters annual meeting in Vancouver, Jim Robson was inducted to the CAB Broadcast Hall of Fame.