Pete Yanity has been in some form of sports broadcasting or journalism since 1979, when he began a TV station at his high school.

He's called hundreds of games on TV and radio since and done sports on local TV newscasts since 1982, serving in a 6 and 11 weeknight capacity for three network affiliates since 1986.

His TV play-by-play work includes numerous telecasts that have aired on the Regional Sports Networks (RSN), ACC/Raycom Network, Fox Sports' regional channels, a current Southern Conference play-by-play role for football and basketball on a NEXSTAR Network of stations as well as ESPN3, and other networks of college football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, and soccer. 

Since 2014 he's done a variety of TV work for either the ACC or the Southern Conference, including calling Southern Conference regular season football and basketball games, the ACC Men's Swimming and Rowing championships, the SoCon fall championships, the SoCon men's and women's basketball tournament, as well as getting the assignment for the SoCon baseball tournament championship games. 

He also does a number of ACC Digital Network/ESPN3 game assignments for Clemson's TV production company and has been hired by UNCG and Mercer to call several football, basketball, and baseball games for those schools under a similar arrangement..

Pete's TV work also includes serving from 2001 to 2013 as the sideline reporter on Carolina Panthers preseason telecasts on a network of stations.

He's also provided reports for Raycom Sports' ACC Football Preview Show.

His work in radio began during his college days and grew into his role as the play-by-play voice of Clemson University football and basketball from 2003 through 2014.

He's currently in his third stint as a host and producer of Clemson's football and basketball coaches TV shows, with prior tenures for two years in the early '90s and then again during his 11-year run as play-by-play announcer. 

In the fall of 2018, Pete added the duties of producer and host of Clemson’s radio network pregame tailgate show for that season.

From 1992 through 2003, he also was host and produced Wofford College's football TV show.

In 2002, he was inducted into Wofford's Athletic Hall Of Fame as an Honorary Letterman. 

In 2013, the South Carolina Broadcasters Association honored him with its Masters Award, a reward for career achievement.  

He's a past recipient of the NSSA South Carolina Sportscaster of the Year and in 2014 he received the SCBA's Star Award as its Sportscaster of the Year.

Pete's the sports director at WSPA-TV (CBS) in the Greenville-Spartanburg (SC)-Asheville (NC) market, a role he's held since October 1990. During that time he's covered practically everything one can on the local level while also doing both stories and specials at the Super Bowl, the World Series, The Masters, the Final Four, and the Daytona 500 as well as a variety of other NASCAR programming.

Prior to his arrival at WSPA, Pete served as the sports director at WBTW-TV (CBS) in the Florence-Myrtle Beach (SC) market and as sports director at WBOY-TV (NBC) in Clarksburg, WV.  From August 1985 to March 1986 he was the the weekend sports anchor and weekday reporter at WBTW.

He has also participated in and received a variety of honors for community service.

Pete is a 1985 graduate of Ohio University and native of Ridgefield, CT.

While in college, he worked diligently in his four years in the sports department at broadcast stations WOUB-TV-AM-FM. He also worked with a video production company, Athens Video Works, as he did play-by-play on tape-delayed cable telecasts of Ohio football and basketball games. His college internships included CNN in Atlanta and WFSB-TV (CBS) in Hartford, CT.

Through all that is his career, the very best part of his life is his wife Kelly and children Paige and Trey. 

While his family defines him personally, professionally Pete is constantly focused on growth and is someone who attempts to match the quality of what he produces with an unwavering work ethic.