Green Bay Packers Radio Network

Type	Radio network
Country	United States
Headquarters	Green Bay, Wisconsin
Broadcast area	Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota Illinois (limited) South Dakota (limited) North Dakota (limited)
Owner	Green Bay Packers
Affiliation	NFL
Affiliates	50
Official website	Packers Radio Network

ThePackers Radio Network is a broadcastradio network and the official radio broadcaster of theGreen Bay Packers of theNational Football League (NFL), fully under the team's control in regards to technical productions and on-air personnel. The network's flagship isiHeartMedia'sWRIT-FM (95.7 FM) inMilwaukee, Wisconsin, and its coverage is also heard nationwide throughNFL Game Pass,Sirius XM, andTuneIn.

The team's play-by-play announcer isWayne Larrivee, with former PackercenterLarry McCarren providingcolor commentary since 1995. Former PackersfullbackJohn Kuhn serves as the network's sideline reporter.

The Packers radio network was previously withWTMJ, which has broadcast the games since November 24,1929, and was the former flagship station ofJournal Communications until theE. W. Scripps Company and Journal completed their broadcast merger and publishing spin-off on April 1, 2015 (Good Karma took over WTMJ's operations on November 1, 2018 upon Scripps' second withdrawal from radio).^[1] It was one of the few arrangements where a team's flagship radio station was not based in their home market and the local station served as a network affiliate only; WTMJ can be heard at city-grade strength in most of easternWisconsin, including Green Bay. Meanwhile, the rights for Packers games in theGreen Bay are held byMidwest Communications'sWIXX, withMidwest Communications acquiring theFox Cities rights to the team in 2022 forWYDR, resolving an oddity in the network where former Fox Cities affiliateWAPL transmits from the same tower site as WIXX.^[2]

In situations whereMilwaukee Brewers baseball playoff games conflicted with Packers games (WTMJ and Good Karma Brands originate that team's broadcasts as the Brewers Radio Network) in September and October, WTMJ's FM sister stationWKTI (94.5) originated the games in Milwaukee, with other stations in the Packers Radio Network continuing to determine how to carry both games, depending on whether they have a sister station to broadcast both games.

Though its broadcasts began in 1929, WTMJ did not begin paying the Packers for broadcast rights until 1943; it paid the team $7500 to broadcast the season. In the early 1930s, there was no exclusive right given to broadcast games, andWHBY, then based in Green Bay, often sent its own announcers to call the game. From 1933 to 1936, three additional stations carried WTMJ's radio broadcasts of Packer games:WLBL in Stevens Point (a non-commercial station owned by the state commerce department decades before the creation ofWisconsin Public Radio),WTAQ in Green Bay andWKBH in La Crosse.WSAW in Wausau andWJMS in Ironwood, Michigan started carrying the feed in 1937.^[3]

On October 27, 2021, the Packers announced that its longtime association with WTMJ would end at the end of the season, and that it had signed a deal withiHeartMedia to makesports radio station "The Game",WRNW (97.3), the team's new Milwaukee radio affiliate in 2022. Packers broadcasts already aired on iHeartMedia stations inMadison, Wisconsin,Eau Claire, Wisconsin, andMoline, Illinois. Production of the Packers Radio Network had been transferred from WTMJ to the team in 2018.^[4]

The team's Milwaukee flagship would abruptly change after week six of the2025 season, after iHeart Media instituted a nationwide round of layoffs at many of their stations, especially including WRNW, which would see its morning and evening show hosts and program director departing the station, only months after several other personalities also left in previous layoff cycles. The company also made a deal with the Milwaukee Radio Alliance, the owners ofWLDB (93.3), to transfer the station's intellectual property and branding to WRNW after MRA sold its stations to theEducational Media Foundation, and just before noon on October 13, 2025, the station transitioned to WLDB's similaradult contemporary format, and the company chose to move WRNW's sports rights to its top FM station in the market,WRIT-FM (95.7), including the Packers' play-by-play. WRNW carried two further Packers games with WRIT in a transition period.^[5][6]

Two internal radio stations are operated within the area surroundingLambeau Field during Packers home games. The first features the Packers Radio Network play-by-play, along withpublic address and scoreboard announcements, providing the game call to those in attendance without the delay experienced by the uploading of the network feed via satellite. Another station carries the game's television network audio, also in sync with the PA/scoreboard.

Both feeds are located withinVHFtelevision channel 5 (76–82 MHz) and operated by the external vendor Live Sports Radio, LLC.^[7][8] They areFM broadcasts on frequencies below the standard American FM band, intended to require the purchase of a purpose-built Live Sports Radio tuner from the team'spro shop. However, any radio capable of receiving theextended Japanese FM band below87.7 FM can be tuned to these frequencies.

WIXX is considered an additional "primary" station in the network. This designation only truly comes to use in the later stages of theNFL Playoffs if the Packers make it to theNFC Championship Game and theSuper Bowl, where WIXX is allowed to carry the Packers Radio Network local call. All other network stations, including those licensed to communities in the Fox Cities, must carry thenational Westwood One call instead in line with NFL rules, which included WAPL in the past, despite transmitting from the same tower site as WIXX.

Its primary programming consists of broadcasts of Packer home and away games to a network of 56 stations inWisconsin, theU.P.,Iowa,North Dakota, andSouth Dakota, along with a two-hour pre-game show and three-hour postgame show which allows listeners to call, email, or text in asports talk format about the finished game.Wayne Larrivee has been the play-by-play announcer since1999, while former PackercenterLarry McCarren has worked as the color commentator since1995. Both Larrivee and McCarren contribute to the team's television programs, in addition to work withSpectrum News 1 statewide,WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee andWGBA-TV in Green Bay, where McCarren was sports director from 2013 until 2015 when he began to focus exclusively on his Packers network duties.

WRIT-FM is the current Milwaukee station airingLearfield coverage ofWisconsin Badgers sports, and its sister stationWOKY (920) handles conflict situations between the Badger football and men's basketball teams, giving the Packers contractually-steady coverage throughout the season on WRIT-FM on a full-market FM signal. Through full-market stations and FM translators of AM stations and migration of AM stations over to full-power FM stations, Packers play-by-play has shifted to that band throughout the network, as with most of the league's teams due to its sound clarity. The shift away from WTMJ (whose transmitter is based in the Racine County community ofUnion Grove,de facto giving Racine and Kenosha a very strong signal) also compelled the team to add aRacine/Kenosha station to the network for the first time inWRJN to make up for WRNW's transmitter position being stronger to the north in the market than the south (two WRJN translators based in and around Milwaukee do not carry the network in deference to WRIT-FM's rights).^[2]

• Russ Winnie:1929–1957
• Ted Moore:1958–1969
• Jim Irwin:1969–1998
• Gary Bender:1970–1974
• Lionel Aldridge:1975–1979
• Max McGee:1979–1998
• Larry McCarren:1995–present
• Wayne Larrivee:1999–present^[9][10]

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