The 2009 television broadcast schedule will include LIVE broadcasts of 37 games on Time Warner Cable SportsNet Channel 13. The schedule begins with Opening Day, Thursday, April 9 against the Pawtucket Red Sox (3:05 p.m.).

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The broadcast schedule includes 27 home games as well as 10 road games against the Rochester Red Wings and the Syracuse Chiefs. After the initial broadcast, all games will also be available for cable customers to view anytime on the Time Warner Cable SportsNet On-Demand Channel 946.

All games played at Coca-Cola Field will feature the play-by-play of “The Voice of the Bisons,” Ben Wagner and long time color analyst Duke McGuire.

Highlights of the schedule include three games against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees (April 16, July 7 and September 2) and two games against the Triple-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, the Columbus Clippers (May 22, 24). The Bisons annual Independence Eve Celebration on July 3 against Rochester is on the schedule as is a July 4 game against the Red Wings at Frontier Field.

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The Buffalo Bisons, Triple-A affiliate of the New York Mets, announced that the Bisons Radio Network will include “Game of the Week” broadcasts on WGR Sportsradio 550 and Newsradio 930 WBEN during the 2009 season.

WBEN will air all 22 Sunday Bisons games this year, starting with the Herd’s game against the Pawtucket Red Sox on Sunday, April 12 (1:05 p.m.). WGR will feature a Bisons “Game of the Week,” with a schedule being announced at a later date.

The broadcasts on WBEN and WGR will not affect the radio schedule for the Bisons flagship station, Entercom’s WWKB 1520 “A New Voice.” All 144 Bisons games will continue to be aired on WWKB as well as the Triple-A All-Star game on Wednesday, July 15 from Portland, OR and any potential post season games.

All Bisons games will continue to be available for free on the official website home of the team: bisons.com. The WGR “Game of the Week” schedule will begin at the conclusion of the NHL season.

The Bisons also welcome the addition of Joel Godett to their broadcasting team. Godett will join “The Voice of the Bisons” Ben Wagner and long time color analyst Duke McGuire on various broadcasts throughout the 2009 season.

Godett joins the Bisons broadcast team from the Salem Avalanche, the Class A-Advanced affiliate of the Houston Astros, where he spent the 2008 season as a Broadcasting and Media Relations assistant. In 2007, he made his baseball debut with the Cape Cod League’s Orleans Cardinals.

Originally from New Jersey, Godett graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism. While at Syracuse, Godett worked for the renowned WAER-FM as well as WJPZ-FM and Orange All-Access. He broadcast experience includes everything from SU basketball to professional indoor football and Orange field hockey. He was on the mic when Syracuse beat Johns Hopkins for its 10th lacrosse national championship in 2008.

Godett’s radio work has been recognized by the Hearst Foundation, John Bayliss Broadcast Foundation and the Syracuse Press Club.

Right after the checkered flag fell in Atlanta the first of five Bisons’ season preview shows hit the airwaves. Next week we’ll join you from beautiful Port St. Lucie and bring you latest from the spring training home of the New York Mets at 5 p.m. Future shows air: March 22, 29 and the final show will air LIVE featuring your calls and questions at Coca-Cola Field, April 5 as the team arrives for the first time.

UPDATE 3/9/09: The Bisons first Season Preview Show is now on Bisons.com

Since you are the best Bisons fans ever – insider info! – BIG news coming about another way you can follow the Bisons this year, very soon!

The first official broadcast this season will get started a little tardy today. Since Buffalo’s newest – and most animated – resident has taken all the headlines the past 24 hours the Bisons 2009 Season Preview Show will follow NASCAR ‘flag to flag’ coverage on WWKB-AM 1520.

Today’s preview show will be the first of five airing each Sunday prior to the season beginning at Coca-Cola Field, April 9 at 3:05 p.m. Following the show, it will be available on Bisons.com.

Let’s be honest, starting a little late in the first of over a 150 broadcast will be a distant memory since the Bisons have visions of a taking victory lap later this September.

An extensive list of special events, promotions and giveaways throughout the summer season was unveiled today as the Bisons plan to continue their strong tradition of providing the most affordable family entertainment in Western New York. The Bisons announced their promotional calendar for the 2009 season that officially begins April 9 when Buffalo hosts Pawtucket at Coca-Cola Field.

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