Jim Mullin
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James Thomas "Jim" Mullin' (born September 15, 1968 in North Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Vancouver-based broadcaster. He currently works with CKNW radio as their sports director, sportscaster, reporter and guest host for SportsTalk on CKNW and the SportsTalk Radio network. He is also an internationally experienced broadcaster, writer and documentary features producer. He has called play-by-play of over 550 games in football, basketball, hockey and lacrosse.
He has worked in five continents and his voice was heard around the world by basketball fans from 1994-97 as the English play-by-play commentator for FIBA, the world governing body of basketball. Based in London, England he also hosted and co-produced "FIBA SLAM" a weekly magazine show on Eurosport and ESPN International.
He was the radio play-by-play voice of two (2004, 2006) Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) national basketball championships in Halifax on radio in Vancouver and Victoria.
He began his fourth consecutive, and eighth overall season as the play-by-play voice of the UBC Thunderbirds and the Simon Fraser Clan football on CHMJ 730 AM, Vancouver in September of 2006. He also produces and hosts B.C.'s first and only show dedicated to university and high school sport, The Spirit of Sport, Saturdays from 4-6.
He produced and hosted documentary features in Japan, Australia, the U.S. and Canada for CBC Television and TSN, and was the production manager at TSN's Western Broadcast Centre from 1997-2000. In hockey, he was the play-by-play voice of the Western Hockey League's Vancouver Giants, Victoria Cougars, New Westminster Bruins and the BCHL Bellingham Ice Hawks.
