Jim Van Horne

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Jim Van Horne (born David Melnyk, 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. 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. He and former co-host Jody Vance anchored the daily evening newscast, Sportsnetnews until her departure in 2005. He continued anchoring duties and providing the voice for billboard elements on the network until early fall of 2006. Beginning on November 6, 2006, he will be one of the anchors for the NHL Network program, NHL on the Fly.