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Larry McCarren and Wayne Larrivee

Wayne Larrivee and Larry McCarren enter their 12th season of broadcasts together across the Packers Radio Network in 2010. 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 33rd 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 the Big Ten Network and ESPN Regional, 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.

A 1977 graduate of Emerson College in Boston, he was awarded the school's Alumni Achievement Award in June 2005.

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 is originally 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 52 stations in 43 markets and five states.