Since 2008, preseason games have been broadcast in high definition. WHAM-TV sports anchor Mike Catalana is the sideline reporter. Ray Bentley, a former Bills linebacker and current AFL on ESPN analyst, does play by play, while CBS analyst and former Bills special teams player Steve Tasker does color commentary on these games. These games are simulcast on sister stations WTVH in Syracuse, WICU in Erie, WHAM-TV in Rochester, and beginning in 2008, CITY-TV in Toronto. Previous flagship Citadel Broadcasting was purchased by Cumulus Media, who in turn ceased carrying Bills games at the end of the 2011 season, leaving the network without affiliates in Syracuse, Binghamton, and Erie.īuffalo is one of ten teams that is contracted with Compass Media Networks to syndicate selected games nationwide.ĭuring the preseason, most games are televised on Buffalo's ABC affiliate, WKBW-TV channel 7, with several other affiliates in western New York. As of early 2012, it is composed mostly of WGR, Entercom's sister stations WCMF (96.5 FM) and WROC-AM 950 in Rochester, and a fleet of independent AM and FM stations across upstate New York from Jamestown east to Albany. The Bills radio network has approximately seventeen affiliates in upstate New York and one affiliate, CJCL 590AM (The Fan) in Toronto. John Murphy is the team's current play-by-play announcer he was a color commentator alongside, and eventually succeeded, longtime voice Van Miller after Miller's retirement at the end of the 2003 NFL season.

The rights to Monday night simulcasts from ESPN expired after 2017 as of August, it is unknown what station has purchased those rights.Īs of 2021, the broadcast team consists of Andrew Catalon or Rob Stone on play-by-play, Steve Tasker as color commentator, and Cynthia Frelund as sideline reporter.The Buffalo Bills Radio Network is currently flagshipped at WGR, AM 550 in Buffalo. Sunday night games, should the Bills ever be selected for one, air on NBC, whose Buffalo affiliate is WGRZ.

Since 2008, preseason games have been broadcast in high definition.Īs an American Football Conference team, the majority of Buffalo Bills regular season games air on CBS, which is carried in Buffalo on WIVB Thursday night games, any home games in which the opponent is from the National Football Conference, and any games the league arbitrarily chooses to 'cross-flex' air on Fox, whose local affiliate is WUTV. WKBW's agreement expires after the 2019 season, at which point WIVB-TV, as a Nexstar affiliate, will take over as the official broadcast home of the Bills. Mike Schopp and Chris 'Bulldog' Parker (2012–present)ĭuring preseason, most games are televised on MSG Western New York per a rights deal between MSG and the team owners Terry and Kim Pegula and simulcasted on Buffalo's ABC affiliate, WKBW-TV channel 7 along with the stations of Nexstar Media Group elsewhere in upstate New York.

Dick Rifenburg and Ralph Hubbell (1960-1972).

The Bills radio network has eighteen affiliates in upstate New York, two affiliates in northwestern Pennsylvania, WBRR 100.1 FM in Bradford, Pennsylvania, WQHZ 102.3 FM in Erie, Pennsylvania, one affiliate, CJCL 590AM (The Fan) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and one affiliate, KGAB 650AM in Cheyenne, Wyoming. John Murphy is the team's current play-by-play announcer he was a color commentator alongside and eventually succeeded longtime voice Van Miller after Miller's retirement at the end of the 2003 NFL season. The Buffalo Bills Radio Network is flagshipped at WGR (AM 550). The Buffalo Bills have been covered by numerous broadcasters, particularly through the Buffalo Bills Radio Network in radio.

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