"TK99 is the station fans turn to for local Syracuse sports, adding the Buffalo Bills to their line-up enhances both of our brands." "This is a great opportunity for both the Buffalo Bills organization and our fans," said Syracuse native and Bills Chief Executive Officer, Russ Brandon, in a press release. While both stations are predominantly focused on classic rock, the occasional switch to sports is nothing new - for years, TK99 has been the flagship station of the IMG/Syracuse University athletics network, and WOUR carries the games as well. Galaxy Communications has inked a deal to carry the games on TK99/105 (WTKV/WTKW) in Syracuse and Oswego, and on 96.9 WOUR in Utica. Miller was succeeded by Murphy, his longtime color commentator, when he retired from the booth after the 2003 season.Updated 6/22 - SYRACUSE and UTICA-ROME - After a ten-year affiliation with The Score 1260 (WSKO) in Syracuse and one season with WUTQ in Utica, the Buffalo Bills will have new affiliates in both markets this coming season.
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Van Miller was the voice of the Buffalo Bills from the team's inception until 2003, with the exception of 1972 to 1978, when WKBW controlled radio rights and Miller's TV employer, WBEN-TV (now WIVB), would not permit him to appear on WKBW broadcasts. The network is an autonomous organization from the team, and is unique in that it, and not the team itself, was the main sponsor of the Bills' cheerleaders, the Buffalo Jills, until that squad was disbanded due to legal disputes. John Murphy, formerly a sports anchor at WKBW-TV and WIVB-TV in Buffalo, is the current play-by-play announcer, with former Bills offensive lineman Eric Wood as color commentator and WGR employee Sal Capaccio as sideline reporter. The station added an affiliate in Wyoming in 2021, KGAB in Laramie County, Wyoming, mainly to allow Wyoming Cowboys football fans to follow Bills starting quarterback and Wyoming alumnus Josh Allen. As of 2022, the Bills have no Canadian affiliates, though WGR is audible through much of Southern Ontario. CHML in Hamilton also briefly carried games in the late 2010s but dropped them after re-securing the rights to the team it had carried for much of its history, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. ĭuring the time of the Bills Toronto Series, the station was carried on The Fan 590 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Entercom Communications and Galaxy Communications picked up the rights, restoring broadcasts to WGR for the 2012 season. Cumulus never fully paid off the money Citadel owed for Bills games, instead eventually seeking to nullify the debt in January 2018 when the company went into bankruptcy.
When Cumulus Media purchased Citadel in late 2011, it dropped Bills games from all of its stations at the end of the season. From 1998 through 2011, the Bills were flagshipped at WGRF, as well as other stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting.
WGR briefly carried games in the early 1990s. Previously, the broadcasts originated from WBEN through much of the team's history except for a period from 1971 to 1977 when WKBW was team flagship. Its primary programming is broadcasts of Buffalo Bills home and away games to a network of 24 stations in upstate New York, the Northwestern and Northern Tiers of Pennsylvania, and southeastern Wyoming. The Buffalo Bills Radio Network is a broadcast radio network based in Buffalo, New York.
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