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Philadelphia Flyers Radio Announcers and Broadcast Team

By Abhay Acharya / 17 October 2023 09:09 AM

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Flyers radio announcers are Tim Saunders and Todd Fedoruk. Saunders has been calling play by play for the Flyers on radio since 1997. 

Jim Jackson is the play-by-play announcer for the Philadelphia Flyers on TV. Brian Boucher acts as the color commentator for the NHL franchise.

Devan Kaney hosts the hockey broadcast from the arena with Everett Jackson and Andrea Helfrich. Jason Myrtetus and Brian Smith are the Flyers broadcast network hosts, while Chris Therien, a former Flyer, is set to join the two for the pregame coverages. 

In addition, the game on TV will be hosted by Scott Hartnell, Ashlyn Sullivan, and AI Morganti exclusively on NBC Sports Philadelphia. Beasley Media Group Philadelphia owns the Flyers' radio broadcasting rights. 

NBCSP will broadcast the Flyers' 70 regular season games on TV while the game is set to be featured on ABC once, ESPN+/Hulu six times, ESPN once, and TNT four times during the 2023-24 season. 

The Flyers Broadcast Network flagship station, 97.5 The Fanatic, and sister station, 93.3 WMMR, will air the team's all-regular season games. 

Philadelphia Flyers Radio Broadcasters

The Flyers radio broadcasters for the 2023-24 season include:

  • Tim Saunders
  • Todd Fedoruk

Tim Saunders

Time Saunders is the radio voice of the Flyers games on the Philadelphia Broadcast Network's 97.5 The Fanatic and 93.3 WMMR stations. 

The Michigan native sportscaster Saunders has been calling play-by-play for the Flyers on the radio since 1997, succeeding the then-play-by-play announcer, John Wiedeman. 

Saunders acted as the voice for the Camden Rivesharks, an American baseball team active from 2001 to 2015 based in Camden, New Jersey. 

Timmy also served as the play-by-play voice and the director of broadcasting of the International Hockey League's Cleveland Lumberjacks. 

Saunders is also known to have called for the Central Hockey League's Tulsa Oilers and the Muskegon Fury before his career with the Flyers. 

Todd Fedoruk

The former Canadian winger Todd Fedoruk has been color commentating the Flyers' games on the radio since the start of the 2023-24 season. 

Fedoruk played seven of his nine NHL seasons with the team after being drafted 16th overall in the NHL draft in 1997 by the Flyers. In the 2000-01 season, he debuted in the league, playing over four seasons in 220 games with the team.

He registered at least 100 penalty minutes each season and then played for the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League during the 2004-05 NHL lockout. He recorded 39 points (26 assists and 13 goals) in 268 games throughout his career with the Flyers. 

Before commentating for the Flyers, Todd acted as an assistant coach for the Trenton Titans, the ECHL affiliate of the Flyers. He assumed the role on 9 November 2011 and served for two seasons until 2013. 

Philadelphia Flyers Radio Station

The Philadelphia Flyers radio broadcast is on the Flyers Broadcast Network affiliate, 97.5 The Fanatic. Its studios are located in Bala Cynwyd. 

97.5 The Fanatic, or WPEN, is based in Burlington, New Jersey, with coverage in the Philadelphia area. Beasley Broadcast Group owns the commercial radio station. The station carries almost all Flyers' games.

The radio airs in a sports format and chiefly broadcasts the Flyers Broadcast Network as the franchise's flagship station. The famous "The John Kincade Show" is aired here every morning on weekdays. 

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Beasley Media Group acquired Greater Media and its 21 stations in 2016, including 97.5 The Fanatic. The station was officially announced as the Philadelphia Flyers radio network's flagship outlet in February 2023. 

The announcement was made as a partnership agreement between the Beasley Media Group and the Philadelphia Union. On 25 February 2023, the station aired its foremost official union broadcast against the Columbus Crew. 

Alongside the 97.5 The Fanatic, the Flyers are on the following radio stations.

93.3 WMMR, The Fanatic's sister station, broadcast some select Flyers' games during the scheduling conflict with other partners and the Philadelphia 76ers. The game is also available on the station's website on the broadcast day. 

104.1 or 97.3 FM radio stations cover the Flyers' games for the fans residing in Atlantic City. 

Moreover, the Flyers Broadcast Network offers satellite radio and Flyers Radio 24/7 features for fans to listen to their games anytime, anywhere. SiriusXM Satellite Radio covers all Flyers games through most subscription plans. 

SiriusXM's in-car play-by-play channel covers all home games, while the road and home games are obtainable on SiriusXM's streaming app. Likewise, Flyers Radio 24/7 features every game along with the entirety of the postgame and pregame shows per game. 

It is officially the team's first internet radio station powered by Live365 with worldwide availability. Flyers Radio 24/7 is accessible on the computer via FlyersRadio247.com, while the Live365 app can access the station via phone. 

Those with HD radio capability at home or in the car can tune in to 92.5 FM HD-3 to find Flyers Radio 24/7. Furthermore, the Philadephia Flyers app on the Play Store or App Store can also access that day's game on the phone. 

What channel is the Flyers game on?

The Flyers game on TV is broadcast on NBC Sports Philadelphia (NBCSP). The regular season games will also be shown on TNT

You can watch the Flyers game on cable or satellite television via NBC Sports Philadelphia and over the air. Furthermore, the live streaming of the broadcast can be done online at NBC Sports app and NBCSP.com. 

Two chief cable distributors provide the NBCSP in the New York Service area in Ocean County, Verizon FiOS and Comcast Xfinity. The Flyers game channel on Xfinity is on 36, 847, or 1250. 

In addition, Cablevision also features the NBCSP channel, and Flyers fans can watch the matches on the NBCSP+ channel in HD. The channel is chiefly accessible on the following platforms in respective regions. 

  • Comcast Xfinity - Ocean County
  • Verizon FiOS - Ocean County
  • Cablevision - Monmouth County
  • Comcast - Lambertville
  • Service Electric - Phillipsburg
  • FuboTV - Live Streaming

The Flyers will be featured 12 times nationally, incorporating five road contents and seven home games. ABC will feature the Flyers game once on 17 February 2024, at MetLife Stadium against New Jersey for the 2024 Navy Federal Credit Union NHL Stadium Series. 

Likewise, ESPN will feature Philadelphia once on 24th October 2023, against the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena. ESPN+ or Hulu is exclusively set to feature the Flyers game six times this season. 

Moreover, four of the 12 times the game is set to broadcast on TNT, incorporating the matchup against their intrastate rival, the Pittsburgh Penguins. The game is scheduled for February 25, 2024, at PPG Paints Arena. 

The Philadelphia Flyers TV Schedule for the 2023-24 regular season's October games is listed below.

  • October 17 - Against Vancouver Canucks - NBCSP
  • October 19 - Against Edmonton Oilers - ESPN+/Hulu
  • October 21 - Against Dallas Stars - NBCSP
  • October 24 - Against Vegas Golden Knights - ESPN
  • October 26 - Against Minnesota Wild - ESPN+/Hulu
  • October 28 - Against Anaheim Ducks - NBCSP
  • October 30 - Against Carolina Hurricanes - NBCSP

Philadelphia Flyers TV Broadcast Team

The Flyers TV broadcast team members are listed below.

  • Play-by-play announcer - Jim Jackson
  • Color Commentator - Brian Boucher
  • Studio hosts and Co-hosts - Ashlyn Sullivan, Scott Hartnell, and AI Morganti
  • In-arena hosts - Everett Jackson and Andrea Helfrich
  • In-arena co-host - Deven Kaney

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Jim Jackson has been calling play-by-play for the Flyers on TV since 1995. He is an American professional sportscaster residing in New Jersey. 

Before calling for the Flyers on TV, Jackson called play-by-play for the team on the radio for two seasons in 1993. He began his broadcasting career for the Utica Devils of the AHL

Furthermore, he took the duties of hosting postgame and pregame for the Philadelphia Phillies on the radio, occasionally calling play-by-play in 2007. From 1986 to 1993, he had baseball experience by calling play-by-play for the Utica Blue Sox of the NYPL on the radio. 

Brian Boucher was announced as the color commentator or game analyst for the Flyers on TV before the 2023-24 regular season started. 

He began his media career with NBC Sports Philadelphia as a studio host and game analyst for the Flyers and Phantom games, respectively. For the last eight years, he has covered the NHL for the nationwide TV networks. 

The Flyers drafted the former goaltender in the first round (22nd overall) during the 1995 NHL Draft. Boucher played in 42 postseasons and 174 regular season contents with the team over six seasons from 1999-2013. 

Everett Jackson has hosted the Flyers game from the arena since September 2019. In addition, he has acted as an on-air talent for the iHeartRadio for two years since July 2021. 

Andrea Helfrich joined the Flyers' TV broadcast team on 10 October 2017 as an in-arena host and Flyers TV Host. Before the Flyers, she hosted for the ULTRA, an electronic music festival.

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On 4th October 2022, Devan Kaney joined for the 2022-23 season as an on-camera personality and in-arena co-host for the Flyers home games.

Kaney helped carry out every in-crowd and on-ice segment and promotions and hosted select community events that season.