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American sports broadcaster and writer
Bill Shanks is an American sports broadcaster and writer.

Shanks lives in Macon, Georgia. Shanks, originally from Waycross, Georgia, is a graduate of the University of Georgia. Shanks was a television sports anchor at WBSG in Brunswick, Georgia and WGXA in Macon, Georgia. Shanks also had a sports production company and produced and hosted weekly television shows with the Atlanta Braves, the Atlanta Hawks, and the Atlantic Sun Conference. Six weeks later, on March 23, 2009, Shanks' show was back on the air on the Clear Channel (now iHeartRadio) affiliate. After 7 years at iHeartRadio, he moved his show to his own station which is affiliated with ESPN Radio starting on June 1, 2016. Shanks has provided Braves' reports on radio stations in Athens, Georgia on WRFC, in Spartanburg, SC on WSPG and in Florence, AL on WYTK.

Shanks wrote a book called Scout's Honor: The Bravest Way to Build a Winning Team. He interviewed people for nine months and afterwards took six months to write the book. Baseball writer Jon Heyman described Shanks' close relationship with John Schuerholz being "so close to John Schuerholz he’s practically his ghost writer. John Conniff of Scout. com criticized the book for "fail[ing] to develop any type of coherent argument, structure, or evidence to support his contention or to more importantly explain the reasons for the Braves success". The Sun Sentinels Mike Berardino praised the book for "present[ing] a fascinating and long overdue look at Atlanta's baseball dynasty".

On May 3, 2016 Shanks authored a controversial column in the Macon Telegraph advocating the return of Chief Noc A Homa as the Braves mascot Shanks also called for a return of the teepee in the bleachers. The Telegraph’s sports editor claimed on Twitter that the piece was pulled because Shanks "had a better idea for a column."