{"id":471679,"date":"2026-02-11T00:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/471679\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:13:11","slug":"jim-robson-legendary-voice-of-the-vancouver-canucks-dies-at-91-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/471679\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Robson, legendary voice of the Vancouver Canucks, dies at 91 &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man known as the voice of the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/vancouver-canucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> for 30 years has died.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Legendary broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/jim-robson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Robson<\/a> was the Canucks\u2019 play-by-play announcer, starting in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Robson started his career at the age of 17, covering senior men\u2019s basketball for a radio station in Port Alberni.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>When the Canucks became an NHL expansion team in 1970, Robson moved to Vancouver to CKNW to announce the team\u2019s games.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Hockey commentator Jim Robson shares memories of Gordie Howe'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GBC1160610JIMROBSON_tnb_2.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t4:22<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHockey commentator Jim Robson shares memories of Gordie Howe\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>After retiring in April 1999, Robson remained a Canucks fan and attended many games at Rogers Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Robson was 91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man known as the voice of the Vancouver Canucks for 30 years has died. Legendary broadcaster Jim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,240686,575,85,2371],"class_list":["post-471679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jim-robson","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}