University at Buffalo, Division of Athletics News

Bulls on TV & Radio

Television Coverage
"Bullseye: Inside UB Athletics," will air on Time Warner Cable SportsNet from September until mid-March. Air times are 6:30 pm on Thursday, 6:30 pm on Friday, and 10:30 am on Saturday. Bullseye will air from now until mid-March, profiling each of UB's teams. Football head coach Turner Gill will be a regular during the fall and during the winter the show will shift to basketball with men's head coach Reggie Witherspoon and women's head coach Linda Hill-MacDonald. Additionally, student-athletes and coaches from the Bulls' other athletic programs will be featured each week. UB Football will also have its presence felt on TV as the Bulls will have nine of their 12 games televised this year. Time Warner Cable SportsNet will broadcast four home games live, while the Bulls will also have a MAC Game of the Week and a ESPN2 nationally-televised game from UB Stadium. UB is also currently slated for two road games on ESPNU and UB's game at Pittsburgh will be an ESPN Regional broadcast, which will air live on SportsNet New York.

Radio Coverage

UB Athletics will have a new home this year beginning a two-year agreement with WECK (1230 AM) and WLVL (1340 AM) to air Bulls' athletic events, including Buffalo's football and men's and women's basketball programs and select other UB events. The deal places all of UB's sports on the same family of locally-owned stations for the first time in its Division I-A era (1999-present)

Long-time and highly-respected Buffalo television reporter and anchor Paul Peck, who had previously been the voice of UB football from 1992-99, returns to call Bulls' football. Peck will be reunited with an old broadcast partner, as former Buffalo Bills standout Steve Christie, one of the most accurate placekickers in NFL history, will work as the team's analyst on football games. Christie, who starred in Buffalo for nine years, once had a television show on WIVB-TV that was hosted by Peck. In addition, Brendan McDaniels will return for sideline duty for football games and will team with WECK Sports Director and night-time host Brad Riter to anchor the UB football pre- and post-game shows. Riter, who for several seasons hosted the Buffalo Sabres pre- and post-game shows, will also take phone calls from fans following the games while mixing in post-game interviews with head coach Turner Gill and players.

In addition, Riter's weekly call-in show with Coach Turner Gill will begin on Wednesday, August 20th at 6:30 pm with callers welcome to join in.

While the Bulls will have a new flagship home on WECK, UB football will once air on WHTK (1280 AM) in Rochester. In addition, UB's football games will be available on the web on UB's athletic website (www.buffalobulls.com), WECK's website (www.weck1230.com) as well as the University's station, WBFO (www.wbfo.org/listen).

UB men's basketball action will move to WECK (1230 AM) for the upcoming 2008-09 season with Josh Whetzel, four years the voice of the Rochester Red Wings and a 12-year broadcast veteran, will be calling all the action. For the fourth straight season all of the 2008-09 games on the women's basketball schedule will be broadcasted on WLVL-1340 AM with select games also airing on WECK. Brendan McDaniels, UB football's sideline reporter and UB volleyball play-by-play man will be calling all the action.

WLVL 1340 AM will also air a minimum of 10 other UB olympic sporting events throughout the year.

Internet Coverage

TEAMLINE is a telephone and internet service that allows you to hear the LIVE play-by-play of UB athletic events from anywhere in the world. Click on the link at right to access the TEAMLINE website and follow the directions to listen to any Buffalo radio broadcast over the internet or telephone. Listening to broadcasts of Buffalo games over the internet is free in 2008-09.