BUFFALO BILLS BROADCASTING TEAM

[GeorgeKramer]

I assume the main players are all back for 2011, but can someone remind us who is the on-air team (PBP, analyst, sideline reporter) and who are the behind the scenes workers for the team this season?

Also, who will be hosting the pregame, halftime and postgame shows?

Tomorrow night is their first broadcast so I'm curious to hear if they introduce any new wrinkles into the game day experience or keep things relatively the same as what we heard in 2010.

 

[GeorgeKramer]

I miss Paul Peck doing the sideline reports. He was really good in that role.

 

[Bob1370]

The lead play-by-play guy is always the main draw. That's where the Bills have always had their strength, first with Van Miller, and then with John Murphy. The color man used to be a bigger factor in the broadcast when the late Stan Barron filled that role, and later with Murphy alongside Miller. Since then it's been more of a team thing with a group of pre-game, in-game and post-game commentators surrounding Murphy, with no one person playing as strong a role as either Barron or Murphy did alongside Miller back in the day. That's probably by design, since they've gone to using an ex-Bill who wasn't a broadcast pro as Murphy's sidekick in the booth for a lot of years now. (Might not have been that way if Steve Tasker had become fulltime color man on the Bills network rather than signing with CBS-TV; had he been in the booth, he'd have been closer to an equal partner on the broadcast.)

 

[ThePickleReport]

Based on what I heard this week:

Pre-game: Chris Brown, Mark Kelso, Rich Gaenzler

Pre-game/post game show host: Brent Axe

Play-by-play: John Murphy

Color: Mark Kelso

Sideline: Rich Gaenzler

I guess Vic Carucci is involved as a weekly analyst as well.

 

[DJ Hukhers Roll Call]

Based on what I heard this week:

Pre-game: Chris Brown, Mark Kelso, Rich Gaenzler

Pre-game/post game show host: Brent Axe

Play-by-play: John Murphy

Color: Mark Kelso

Sideline: Rich Gaenzler

I guess Vic Carucci is involved as a weekly analyst as well.

Is Carucci still on the broadcast team? Since he left NFL.com, I thought he's working full-time out of Cleveland now?

 

[SirRoxalot]

There will be a big hole to fill with the departure of Russ Burton as producer in the studio. It will also be a big hole in the Larry Norton show. Russ is going to Town Square and into sales.

 

[GeorgeKramer]

Paul Peck was the best sideline reporter they had. It's a shame he's no longer a part of the gameday team.

 

[John C]

As long as I don't have to hear the Bills' preseason TV play by play man (Ray Bentley? ) call the Jacksonville Jaguars the "Jag-wires" ever again, I'll be happy.