Serving as lead announcer for the PGA TOUR’s radio and international television broadcasts this season, Brian Katrek has arguably called the action for more professional golf tournaments in the last five years than anyone else.
A two-time nominee, and winner, of the A.I.R. award, for best sports coverage in Atlanta, Brian Katrek’s passion for golf and all sports can be found not just on the radio dial, but on the TV remote and the internet as well.
For the last eight seasons, Katrek has been the host of "On the Green" on Atlanta’s The Zone 790, and will complete his fifth season as the voice of LIVE@17, the PGA TOUR’s webcast of the 17th hole of THE PLAYERS Championship.
A scratch golfer, Katrek returned to the lead play-by-play role for PGA TOUR Radio in 2006, a role he held for six seasons previously.
Brian, his wife and 2 children live in suburban Atlanta.
Chuck Oliver is a graduate of Auburn University with a degree in English Education. In the beginning of his freshman year, figuring that the best seats in the house were always in the press box, he convinced WEGL FM 91.1 that he was the best man to cover Auburn sports for this local radio station. Thus, in September 1986, the "4:45 Afternoon Sports Report" debuted featuring Chuck Oliver and sponsored by Auburn Exotic Fish.
After graduation, Oliver became a public high school teacher and coach where he utilized his English degree to the utmost. Oliver retired from teaching in 1997 to pursue a full-time career in writing.
Over the next three years, Oliver wrote ad copy, television commercial scripts, and even had two books published. Oliver was the runaway winner of Atlanta radio station 790 The Zone's "Put Up or Shut Up" contest in August of 2000, and a sports talk radio career was born. Since then, he has been a part of the best sports talk lineup in the country on 790 The Zone, as well as being a regular contributor on Comcast SportsSouth and the local CBS and NBC affiliates.
Oliver has served as part of the broadcast crew for the past five Peach/Chick-fil-a Bowl games and is the color commentator for the Georgia Force of the Arena Football League. Additionally, Oliver is a regular contributor to The Sunday Paper, a local news and entertainment weekly, and Score Atlanta, the city’s only weekly sports publication.
As morning Co-Host on Atlanta's top rated Sports Talk radio station 790 The Zone, Mike's worked in radio for 18 years with stops in Long Island, Washington D.C., Miami and now Atlanta. Mike hosted the Atlanta Braves pre game show on Turner South in 2002 before moving to Fox Sports Net's Southern Sports Report and NASCAR studio show. A former stand up comic Mike can currently be seen and heard around the South on CSS simulcast his radio show "Mayhem in the AM" weekday mornings from 7-8am.
Mike's handicap is a 22 and through his job as a sportscaster has been lucky enough to play golf on a great variety of courses from East Lake, and Riviera to exotic locations like Iceland, Costa Rica and The Dominican Republic.
Jimmy Baron moved to Los Angeles out of high school to be an actor (he appeared in Risky Business, The Sure Thing, and a dozen other television shows) but found a career in radio instead. He began working at KZTR in Oxnard, CA in 1990 and made pit stops in San Diego and Chicago before landing at 99X (WNNX Atlanta) in 1993.
Since then, Jimmy has been synonymous with Atlanta radio. As part of the Morning X, he and his partners Steve Barnes and Leslie Fram dominated the morning airwaves for just over a decade. They won dozens of awards locally from Atlanta Magazine, Creative Loafing, Jezebel, and others, in addition to winning or being nominated for a number of national broadcasting honors by Billboard, Monitor, and Radio&Records as well. In 2003 The Morning X dissolved and he and Leslie teamed up with Fred Toucher to form the Toucher, Jimmy, and Leslie Show. Jimmy left 99X in April 2006 and has been courted by several radio stations while he currently decides where to hang his headphones next.
