Rick Jeanneret Rick Jeanneret John Richard Jeanneret (born July 23, 1942) is a Canadian-born television and radio personality best known as the play-by-play announcer for the National Hockey League's Buffalo Sabres and its broadcast network, the Sabres Hockey Network. Having started with the team on radio during the team's second season in 1971–72, he is the longest-tenured play-by-play announcer with a single team in NHL history. He moved to television during the 1995–96 season and began doubling both television and radio play-by-play duties during the 1997–98 season. He is known as "RJ" within the Sabres organization and by close associates. Jeanneret is
Albert Edouard Gilou Albert Edouard Gilou Albert Edouard "Bertie" Gilou (1910-1961) was a French art collector and founding art director of the magazine "". He was also art director of the magazine "Realités" from 1950 to 1961. Gilou was a descendant of Charles Sedelmeyer on his mother's side, and his father, Pierre Gilou, was a tennis player who captained the French Tennis Federation and won the Davis Cup five times. Gilou was raised in a highly motivating environment, and was given art and music lessons. In 1939, Gilou graduated from the Paris École des Beaux-Arts with a degree in architecture. He was awarded