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Packers Radio Network
Larry McCarren and Wayne Larrivee |
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Complete Listing of Radio Stations
Wayne Larrivee and Larry McCarren enter their 11th season of broadcasts together across the Packers Radio Network in 2009. Though both are veteran broadcasters, the two were paired for the first time in 1999 to bring the color and excitement of Green Bay Packers football to fans throughout Wisconsin, Upper Michigan and three more-distant states.
Larrivee, who grew up as a fan of the Packers in his native Lee, Mass., enters his 32nd consecutive year broadcasting NFL games, having joined Green Bay's broadcast team after 14 seasons as the radio voice of the Chicago Bears (1985-98) on WGN and WMAQ Radio in Chicago. Earlier, he had done play-by-play of Kansas City Chiefs games for seven years (1978-84) on KCMO Radio in Kansas City. Known for his thorough preparation and his moderated, yet enthusiastic, call of the action, Larrivee's more-recent credits also include play-by-play for Big Ten Conference football and basketball for ESPN Regional and Big Ten Network, co-host of the nationally syndicated Pro Football Weekly radio program the past 20 years, and Chicago Cubs baseball. He also served as play-by-play announcer of Chicago Bulls basketball on WGN-TV from 1991-2008 and for NCAA basketball on Westwood One/CBS Sports Radio.
Highly-decorated, the 54-year-old Larrivee was named Illinois 'Sportscaster of the Year' in 1997 and is a seven-time winner of the Silver Dome Award, presented by the Illinois Broadcasters Association, for best radio football play-by-play. He is also a four-time winner of a Midwest Emmy for Bulls basketball play-by-play.
A 1977 graduate of Emerson College in Boston, he was awarded the school's Alumni Achievement Award in June 2005. Larrivee also has done play-by-play of University of Iowa football, Quad Cities (Iowa) Angels minor league baseball, University of Missouri basketball and Kansas City Kings basketball.
McCarren first joined the team's broadcasts in 1995, working his first four seasons with Jim Irwin and Max McGee. Inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 1992, he also is a favorite among television viewers in northeast Wisconsin. Sports director at WFRV-TV in Green Bay since 1988, he additionally served previously as co-host of Inside 1265, the official television program of the Green Bay Packers. He four times has been voted Wisconsin 'Sportscaster of the Year' (1994
1996, 2002, 2007) by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
An iron man at center for the Packers for 12 seasons (1973-84), McCarren played in 162 consecutive games -- the fourth-longest streak in team history -- helping him earn the nickname 'Rock.' He was voted to the Pro Bowl in 1982 and '83. Earlier, he had been a co-captain at the University of Illinois as both a junior and senior. McCarren, 57, originally is from Park Forest, Ill.
Newsradio 620 WTMJ, which has been broadcasting the team's games since November of 1929, continues its long-standing role as the flagship station of the Packers Radio Network.
The Packers Radio Network is made up of 53 stations in 43 markets and five states.
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