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Williams, Brian ( )

Early in , after graduating in from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with a BA in History and Political Science, and then teaching for a year at St. Jude&#;s in Grand Rapids, Brian Williams stuffed all his worldly goods into his Karmann Ghia and headed east into Ontario early in And had any of the radio stations he called on in Windsor, Chatham, London and Guelph had a job to offer him, Brian&#;s life might have been very different. As it was, it was Dick Smyth at CHUM in Toronto who gave Brian his first job in Canadian broadcasting, in September , and set him on the road to becoming a household name, and to being voted the country&#;s top sports broadcaster no less than eight times.

Brian was born in Winnipeg in His father was a very successful doctor, on an upwardly mobile career that meant Brian&#;s education was spread successively over schools in Invermere B.C., New Haven Connecticut, Edmonton Alberta and Hamilton Ontario, and finally at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids Michigan.

While he had at one time had some thoughts of going into law, Brian&#;s avid radio listening in his university years eventually convinced him that he wanted to be a broadcaster himself. In , while still at Aquinas, he got himself a job doing news, sports and university basketball play-by-play for WXTO-FM Grand Rapids, and during his teaching year at St. Jude&#;s he did early morning radio news and sports for WGRD-AM.

When Brian walked into CHUM that day in , Dick Smyth gave him four of the day&#;s newspaper stories, and told him to rewrite them for radio and tape them there and then as his audition. Several hours later, Brian was reading the evening news on the station, and was on his way to a three-year stay with CHUM, handling both news and sports. His talent for sports broadcasting had him covering the Canada-Russia series for CHUM and stations across the country, and he interviewed Paul Henderson in the dressing

American journalist and television news anchor (born )

For other people named Brian Williams, see Brian Williams (disambiguation).

Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, ) is an American journalist and television news anchor. He was a correspondent for NBC Nightly News starting in , before his promotion to anchor and managing editor of the broadcast in

In February , Williams was suspended by NBC News for six months for "misrepresent[ing] events which occurred while he was covering the Iraq War in ". Four months after the incident came to light, the network removed him from NBC Nightly News permanently and reassigned him as the breaking news anchor for MSNBC.

In September , Williams became the host of MSNBC's political news show, The 11th Hour. Williams announced in November that he would be leaving MSNBC and NBC News at the completion of his contract the following month, when he hosted his final episode of The 11th Hour.

On October 17, , Williams was announced as the host for Election Night coverage for Amazon.

Early life

Born on May 5, , in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Williams was raised in a "loud" Catholic home of largely Irish descent. He is the son of Dorothy May (née Pampel) and Gordon Lewis Williams, who was an executive vice president of the National Retail Merchants Association, in New York. Williams is the youngest of four siblings.

He lived in Elmira, New York, for nine years before moving to Middletown Township, New Jersey, when he was in junior high school.

Williams graduated from Mater Dei High School, a Roman Catholic high school in the New Monmouth section of Middletown. While in high school, he was a volunteer firefighter for three years at the Middletown Township Fire Department. Williams was also the editorial editor for the school newspaper

Canadian sportscaster

This article is about the Canadian sportscaster. For the American journalist, see Brian Williams.

Brian James WilliamsOC (born July 18, ) is a Canadiansportscaster who is best known for his coverage of the Olympic Games.

Early life

Williams' father was a physician. His father's work caused the Williams family to relocate to such places as Invermere, British Columbia; New Haven, Connecticut; Edmonton, Alberta; Hamilton, Ontario (where he graduated from Westdale Secondary School);Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan and Grand Rapids, Michigan (where he graduated from Aquinas College with a B.A. in history & political science in ). After graduating, he spent a year as a teacher at a Grand Rapids school.

Broadcasting career

Williams began his involvement in broadcasting when he applied for a part-time job at his college's classical station WXTO which was located in the tower of the Aquinas College's Administration Building. Williams also was the first to travel with the Aquinas College "Tommies" Basketball team announcing the "Tommies" basketball games via a one-man telephone connection. Williams' college goal was to go back to Canada and become a sports journalist.

Williams was long associated with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's sports coverage since joining the network in , after radio employment at Toronto's CFRB and CHUM.

CBC

Williams served as the studio host for the CBC's coverage of the CFL, Formula 1 and horse racing and was the play-by-play announcer for the network's coverage of Toronto Blue Jays baseball. He was the principal studio anchor for CBC's Olympic Games coverage for the Winter, Summer, Winter, Summer, Winter, Summer, Winter, Summer, Winter, Summer and Winter Olympics. Williams also covered the FIFA World Cup for CBC.

Williams also worked with Peter Mansbridge during Today, CBC's coverage of the millennium.

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