Predators broadcasters

Pete Weber, Play-by-play announcer

“Voice of the Predators” Pete Weber enters his 12^th season as the team’s primary play-by-play announcer in 2009-10. His insight into the team and the game of hockey is a regular feature in local sports talk radio and television, andhe also consistently contributes to the Predators’ Web site and team publications.

Pete is slated to be a “Western Conference Insider” on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's "NHL Home Ice" service (XM 204) once again in 2009-10, and is slated to join “HockeyBuzz Radio” as a co-host this season. In addition to his duties with the team, Weber co-hosted SportsNight (a popular local sportstalk radio program) from July 2003 until August of 2005 and has filled in as a program host for ESPN Radio. Since 2005, Pete has joined in on the Triple-A baseball Nashville Sounds' broadcasts and also produced and hosted weekly podcasts: "This Week in the Minor Leagues" and the syndicated “Southern Pro Football.”

Weber spent two seasons (1995-97) as the radio play-by-play announcer for the Buffalo Sabres, three seasons (1978-81) as the color analyst for the Los Angeles Kings and also served as host of "Hockey Night with the Buffalo Sabres" from 1990-93. Along with his 22 seasons of NHL experience, Weber has served as a play-by-play voice in baseball (Buffalo Bisons, 1983-95), basketball (Seattle SuperSonics, 1981-82) and football (University of Buffalo, 1992). He has called the hockey action for the University of Notre Dame (1974-76) and the University at Buffalo (1976-78) and was part of the Buffalo Bills' broadcast team during their four Super Bowl seasons (1990-93). 

Weber was inducted into the Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999. He was part of a winning Predators’ broadcast effort in winning a regional Emmy in 2003, and won another as co-host of the 2008 Mid-South Regional telecast.    

The Galesburg, Ill., native is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. Weber and his wife, Claudia, reside in Nashville.

Entering his 12^th season with the Predators, Terry Crisp provides the color commentary on the club’s television and radio broadcasts and helps comprise one of the most well-known broadcast duos in the league. He regularly contributes insight to the Predators’ Web site and local sports talk radio and worked as a studio analyst for Canada's TSN during the 2000, 2002 and 2003 IIHF World Championships.

Crisp served as a color analyst for FOX Sports during the 1998-99 season and during the 1998 and 1999 Stanley Cup Finals, and has served in a similar capacity for TSN in past years. 

Crisp posted 201 points (67g-134a) in 536 games during his 11 seasons in the NHL as a player for the Boston Bruins, St. Louis Blues, New York Islanders and Philadelphia Flyers. He has won three Stanley Cup Championships, two as a player with the Flyers (1974 and 1975) and one as a coach with Calgary (1989), and he is one of only 14 people to have won the Cup as both player and head coach. The Parry Sound, Ont., native has a unique perspective on expansion teams: he was a player with the inaugural editions of the St. Louis Blues in 1967 and the New York Islanders in 1972.

Crisp was the head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning from the franchise's inception in 1992 through October, 1997, coaching 391 games. He held the record for most games coached by an expansion franchise’s first coach until Nashville head coach Barry Trotz broke the mark in 2003. In the 2004 NHL Stanley Cup Finals, the Lightning defeated the Flames – the team he coached to the Cup in 1989. Crisp also served as the assistant coach of the silver medal-winning Canadian team at the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France.

Terry and his wife, Sheila, reside in Nashville. The Crisp’s have three children – sons Tony and Jeff, and daughter Caley.

Tom Callahan enters his second season with the Nashville Predators broadcast team in 2009-10. Callahan will continue to assume radio play-by-play duties on the Predators radio network for the 55 Predators games aired on FS Tennessee, while contributing to the other 27 broadcasts as a rink-side reporter for all games that are not televised (or are televised exclusively by a national rightsholder). For those games, the 12-season team of Pete Weber (play-by-play) and Terry Crisp (color commentator) will be in the radio booth.

Callahan, who also contributes regularly to nashvillepredators.com and serves as a face in the community for the organization, came to Nashville from the American Hockey League’s Peoria Rivermen, where he served as director of communications in 2007-08. Prior to working in Peoria, the Lackawanna, N.Y. native spent four seasons with the Augusta Lynx of the ECHL, and three seasons with the Elmira Jackals of the then-United Hockey League (now International Hockey League), serving in similar positions. He also has experience in then-Western Professional Hockey League (now Central Hockey League) and in minor league baseball.

Tom, who is a 1998 graduate of St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y., resides in Nashville with his wife Meaghan.