Jim Mullin is 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.

As CKNW’s Sports Department Manager, he is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the department and the afternoon sports on the World Today with Jon McComb.

 

His commentaries can be heard Monday and Friday during the noon hour sports.

He also co-hosts BC Lions post-game coverage on SportsTalk Weekend with Rick Quinton and SportsTalk with Dan Russell. He is also a frequent contributor to the Bill Good Show and the Christy Clark Show.

 

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 on CHMJ AM 730.

 

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 produced and hosted 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.

 

He has also worked as a news, sports, columnist and features writer for the Peace Arch News, Surrey Leader, and Surrey Now.