Predators broadcasters
Pete Weber, Play-by-Play Announcer
Pete is slated to be a “Western Conference Insider” on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's "NHL Home Ice" shows (XM 204) once again in 2012-13, and is slated to join “Slapshot 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 2005 and has filled in as a program host for ESPN Radio. He has also called the Music City Bowl and done games for the Triple-A baseball Nashville Sounds' broadcasts, in addition to producing and hosting 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 23 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 has won Mid-South Regional Emmys for his work on Predators’ broadcasts in 2003, 2008 and 2010. He also sits on the National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences Nashville/Mid-South Chapter’s Board of Governors.
The Galesburg, Ill., native is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. Weber and his wife, Claudia, reside in Nashville.
Terry Crisp, Color Analyst
A part of the Predators’ Emmy-winning broadcasts in 2003, 2008 and 2010, 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, Radio Play-by-Play Announcer
Tom Callahan (Twitter: @predsradio) enters his fifth season with the Nashville Predators broadcast team in 2012-13, providing radio play-by-play and co-hosting duties on the Fifth Third Bank Nashville Predators Radio Network for all games. He also appears as a playoff correspondent on NHL Network for the Predators. In addition to broadcasting the games, Callahan oversees the Radio Network, developing and implementing programs and tools to expand the regional fan base through Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Illinois and Georgia. He also contributes regularly to nashvillepredators.com, the team’s publications and serves as a face in the community for the organization.
Callahan 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, serving in similar positions. He also has experience in then-Western Professional Hockey League (now Central Hockey League) and in minor league baseball.
Callahan, a 1998 graduate of St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y., resides in Nashville.
Stu Grimson, Radio Analyst
Grimson, who played in 30 games with the Predators during the 2001-02 season, posted 17 goals, 22 assists and 2113 penalty minutes in 729 career games with Calgary, Chicago, Anaheim, Detroit, Hartford, Carolina, Los Angeles and Nashville from 1987-2003.
After retiring from the NHL following the 2002-03 season, Grimson returned to school, finished his undergraduate degree and earned a law degree from the University of Memphis in December of 2005. The Kamloops, British Columbia native then went to work as a labor lawyer for the NHLPA for two years before returning to Nashville to work as a defense attorney with Kay, Griffin, Enkema & Colbert, PLLC.
Stu resides in Brentwood with his wife, Pam, their three daughters, Erin, Hannah and Jayne and son, Kristjan.
