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FRONT OFFICE 2021 braves broadcasters

Radio: The Atlanta Braves, WCNN 680 the Fan, All News 106.7, the Atlanta Braves flagship rightsholders, will
carry all 162 regular season games and all Spring Training games. The Braves Radio Network includes over
150 affiliates across the Southeast, one of the largest radio affiliates in all major league sports.
MANAGERS & COACHES Television: The Atlanta Braves, Bally Sports South, and Bally Sports Southeast will team up in 2021 to bring
Braves fans the best and most comprehensive sports television broadcasting in Major League Baseball. Bally
Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast, the largest regional sports network, reach seven Southeastern
states and have broadcast Braves regular-season and Spring Training games the past 25 seasons.

chip caray Bally Sports South & Bally Sports Southeast
PLAYER BIOS • Caray is in his 12th season as the play-by-play • He is the third
generation of Carays
announcer for Braves games on Bally Sports South
and Bally Sports Southeast.
play announcer, after
• He previously spent five seasons (2005-09) as the to serve as a play-by-
play-by-play voice of TBS’s Major League Baseball his father Skip and
grandfather Harry, who
coverage and Braves’ broadcasts on Peachtree TV.
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT • He served as the play-by-play announcer for seven to 1997...A member of the Hall of Fame, Harry
was the play-by-play voice of the Cubs from 1982
seasons (1998-2004) for Chicago Cubs games on
spent 53 seasons as a major league broadcaster...
WGN, winning the 2004 Illinois Sportscaster of the
On May 13, 1991, the three generations of Carays
Year award
worked together on a Chicago Cubs/Atlanta
• Caray spent one season as the radio play-by-play
Braves game.
announcer for Minnesota’s Orlando (AA) affiliate in • Chip’s broadcast career also includes nine seasons
1990, two years (1991-92) broadcasting the Atlanta as the television play-by-play voice of the NBA’s
2017 SEASON REVIEW • He worked five years (1996-2000) as a member • Caray graduated from the U. of Georgia in 1987,
Braves and three campaigns (1993-95) with the
Orlando Magic and stints calling both University
Seattle Mariners.
of Florida and Florida State University football and
basketball games for the Sunshine Network.
of the Fox Network’s Saturday baseball coverage,
including three years as a studio host.
beginning his career with weekend TV sports anchor
stints in Panama City, Fla., and Greensboro, NC.
• Chip and his wife Susan have four children:
BRAVES HISTORY
Summerlyn, Christopher, Stefan and Tristan.
jeff francoeur Bally Sports South & Bally Sports Southeast
• The 2021 season marks Francoeur’s fourth season • Originally a first-round
in the broadcast booth and his third as lead analyst. pick by Atlanta in the
OPPONENTS games in both the radio and television booths debuted with the Braves
2002 draft, Francoeur
He served as a guest analyst for select Braves
during the 2018 season.
in 2005 and finished third
• Francoeur retired in 2017 following a 12-year in the N.L. Rookie of the Year balloting.
major league career, during which he appeared • He won a Rawlings Gold Glove award in the N.L.
with Atlanta (2005-09; ‘16), New York-NL (2009- in 2007, and lead the league in outfield assists in
’10), Texas (2010), Kansas City (2011-’13), San • A native of Atlanta, Francoeur and his wife, Catie
three different seasons (2007, ‘10, ‘12).
MISCELLANEOUS 424 2021 ATLANTA BRAVES MEDIA GUIDE have four children - Emma Cate, Brayden, Eleanor
Francisco (2013), San Diego (2014), Philadelphia
(2015) and Miami (2016)...He was a career .261
(1,373-for-5,260) hitter over 1,480 games.
and Camden - and reside in Suwanee.