One of the NBA's most recognizable and decorated play-by-play announcers, Bob Rathbun enters his 14th season as the television play-by-play voice for the Hawks. Rathbun will call all of the games on the Hawks' FSN South/SportSouth package.

He has added some significant broadcasting awards over the last few years. In April 2008, Rathbun was inducted into the media wing of the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. Each of the last two years, FSN South has walked away with an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement, Sporting Event/Game (Live Unedited), including one in 2009 for its broadcast of the Hawks-Celtics Game Six playoff contest from 2008.

In 2007, Rathbun won the same Emmy for his work on FSN's winning entry while broadcasting play-by-play for the Atlanta Braves.

His basketball work has touched nearly all of the major broadcast outlets. His NBA work has earned him opportunities to call games for TNT and NBA-TV, after a collegiate resume that includes stints with CBS (NCAA basketball tournament), ABC, and ESPN (College basketball plus college football and the College World Series).

Rathbun has served as the college basketball play-by-play announcer for the ACC Television Network through Raycom Sports since 1988, and he has called games for both the ACC and the SEC on FSN South since he arrived in Atlanta in 1996. With an extensive sports background, Rathbun's broadcasting career has earned him seven Sportscaster of the Year honors (Virginia: 1980-82, 1985, 1988-89; Georgia 1998), a Distinguished Service Award from the ACC (1994), and a Distinguished Alumni Award from Catawba College (1988). He was inducted into his alma mater's Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.

His baseball resume includes 10 years as FSN South's voice of the Atlanta Braves, three seasons on radio in Detroit with the Tigers, and part time work on Baltimore Orioles' TV broadcasts. .

Since 2004, Rathbun has spearheaded the organization's Speaker's Bureau, where he works on increasing the profile of the Hawks, Thrashers and Philips Arena — through speaking engagements with civic, community, religious and other local groups. Rathbun, who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech from Catawba College (1976), and his wife Marybeth have two children, Court and Grace.