List of Green Bay Packers broadcasters

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The Green Bay Packers are unique in having their market area cover two media markets, both Green Bay and Milwaukee, and blackout policies for the team apply within both areas, though they rarely come into effect due to strong home attendance and popularity.

The Packers' flagship radio station is Milwaukee-based WTMJ-AM (620), with the games airing in Green Bay on WTAQ (1360) and WIXX-FM (101.1) and in Appleton on WAPL-FM (105.7). Wayne Larrivee is the play-by-play announcer and Larry McCarren is the color analyst. Larrivee joined the team after many years as the Chicago Bears' announcer. Jim Irwin and Max McGee were the longtime radio announcers before Larrivee and McCarren.

The preseason rights for games not nationally broadcast and Packer shows like Packers Live and Total Packers with Matt LeFleur are held by WGBA (Channel 26) in Green Bay and WTMJ (Channel 4) in Milwaukee, WAOW 9 in Wausau, WQOW 18 Eau Claire, WXOW 19 in La Crosse, WKOW 27 in Madison, KQDS 21 in DuluthSuperior, WLUC-TV (NBC 6/Fox UP) in Marquette. The previous preseason rights for games in Green Bay belonged to WFRV (Channel 5), which was previously owned by CBS Corporation until April 2007, when the station was purchased by Liberty Media.

Preseason coverage was produced by CBS, using the NFL on CBS graphics package with the CBS eyemark replaced by the Packers logo. The graphics are currently used from NBC Sunday Night Football, with the Packers TV Network logo. The TV play-by-play announcer, Kevin Harlan , is the son of former Packers president Bob Harlan. In the 2008 pre-season, all of the Packers preseason games on the statewide network were produced and aired in high definition, while two games on WTMJ instead aired over WVTV (Channel 18) because of Channel 4's obligations to 2008 Summer Olympics coverage in Milwaukee.

ESPN Monday Night Football games, both pre-season and season, are broadcast over the air on Fox affiliate WLUK (Channel 11) in Green Bay and ABC affiliate WISN (Channel 12) in Milwaukee, while the stations airing Packers games in the NFL Network Run to the Playoffs package have varied.

The team's intra-squad Lambeau scrimmage at the beginning of the season, which is marketed as Packers Family Night, is broadcast by WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) in Milwaukee, and produced by WGBA (Channel 26) in Green Bay, both NBC affiliates which broadcast the bulk of the team's regular season games.

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