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==Media== The Packers are unique in having their market area cover two media markets, both Green Bay and Milwaukee. [[NFL blackout]] restrictions for the team apply within both areas. However, Packers games have not been blacked out locally since [[1972 NFL season|1972]] (the last year home game local telecasts were prohibited regardless of sellout status) due to strong home attendance and popularity. As mentioned above, every Packers home game—preseason, regular season and playoffs—has been sold out since 1960.<ref name="n879">{{cite web | title=Steelers, Packers no strangers to sellout streaks, waiting lists | website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date=February 5, 2011 | url=https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2011/02/05/Steelers-Packers-no-strangers-to-sellout-streaks-waiting-lists/stories/201102050339 | access-date=August 25, 2024}}</ref> ===Radio=== The [[flagship station]] of the [[Packers Radio Network]] is [[Good Karma Brands]]'s [[WTMJ (AM)|WTMJ]] in Milwaukee, which was the former flagship of the [[Journal Broadcast Group]] before its merger with [[E. W. Scripps Company]] in April 2015; Scripps itself sold their Milwaukee radio assets to GKB in November 2018, and the team then brought their broadcast operations in-house, thus the personnel is directly employed by the team. WTMJ has aired Packers games since 1929, the longest association between a radio station and an NFL team to date, and the only rights deal in American professional sports where a station outside of the team's main metro area is the radio flagship. While this might be unusual, the station can be heard at city-grade strength at all hours in Green Bay proper. Games air in Green Bay on [[WTAQ]] (1360/97.5) and [[WIXX-FM]] (101.1), and [[WAPL]] (105.7) and [[WHBY]] (1150) in [[Appleton, Wisconsin|Appleton]] and the [[Fox Cities]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.packers.com/gameday/packers_radio_network/station_listing/ |title=Packers Radio Station Listing |publisher=Packers.com |access-date=February 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102043312/http://packers.com/gameday/packers_radio_network/station_listing/ |archive-date=January 2, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.packers.com/media-center/radio-shows/packers-radio-network.html |title=Packers Radio Network |publisher=Packers.com |access-date=February 7, 2011 |archive-date=February 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110219215116/http://www.packers.com/media-center/radio-shows/packers-radio-network.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Jim Irwin (sportscaster)|Jim Irwin]] and [[Max McGee]] were the longtime radio announcers before Larrivee and McCarren. When victory is assured for the Packers, either a game-winning touchdown, interception or a crucial 4th down defensive stop, Larrivee's trademark declaration of "And there is your dagger!" signifies the event. In limited circumstances where the [[Milwaukee Brewers]] are in either playoff or post-season contention and their play-by-play takes priority, WTMJ's sister FM station [[WKTI]] (94.5) currently airs Packer games to avert game conflicts. Surrounding pre-game programming is also carried on sister station [[WAUK]] (540), an [[ESPN Radio]] affiliate and former competitor which produced unofficial Packers programming for years. On October 27, 2021, the Packers announced that it would end its longtime association with WTMJ at the end of the season, with [[iHeartMedia]]'s [[sports radio]] station [[WRNW]] (97.3) becoming the team's Milwaukee radio affiliate in 2022.<ref name="mbj-wrnwpackers">{{Cite news |last=Kirchen |first=Rich |date=October 27, 2021 |title=Green Bay Packers switch Milwaukee radio home from WTMJ-AM to iHeartMedia sports station |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2021/10/27/packers-switch-radio-home-from-wtmj.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027201608/https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2021/10/27/packers-switch-radio-home-from-wtmj.html |archive-date=October 27, 2021 |access-date=October 27, 2021 |work=[[Milwaukee Business Journal]]}}</ref> ===Television=== The TV rights for pre-season games not nationally broadcast are held by E. W. Scripps Company-owned television stations [[WGBA-TV]] (channel 26) in Green Bay and [[WTMJ-TV]] (channel 4) in Milwaukee;<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/141227143.html|title=Packers and Journal Broadcast Group announce partnership deal|last=Wolfley|first=Bob|date=March 2, 2012|work=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]|access-date=March 3, 2012|archive-date=March 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305023417/http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/141227143.html|url-status=live}}</ref> the game broadcasts are distributed to 19 further TV stations in Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, and Alaska, as well as Spanish-language [[WYTU-LD]] "[[Telemundo]] Wisconsin" in Milwaukee.<ref name="network">{{Cite news |title=Packers TV Network |language=en-US |url=https://www.packers.com/video/tv-network |website=Green Bay Packers |access-date=July 24, 2023 |archive-date=July 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724033232/https://www.packers.com/video/tv-network |url-status=live }}</ref> The deal marked a change in affiliate in Green Bay from [[WFRV-TV]]; in the wake of the 2012 deal, McCarren resigned his duties as sports director of WFRV to move to WTMJ/WGBA as a Packers analyst, becoming WGBA's official sports director on April 1, 2013.<ref name="Gree120328">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/green-bay-press-gazette-mccarren-will-le/128763431/|date=March 28, 2012|pages=A-1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/green-bay-press-gazette-mccarren/128763453/ A-2]|first=Warren|last=Gerds|title=McCarren will leave WFRV; no plans announced|newspaper=Green Bay Press-Gazette|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=July 24, 2023|archive-date=July 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724045112/https://www.newspapers.com/article/green-bay-press-gazette-mccarren-will-le/128763431/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Wed --><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kirchen |first=Rich |date=March 18, 2013 |title=McCarren will return to anchoring sports on Green Bay TV |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2013/03/18/mccarren-will-return-to-anchoring.html |access-date=August 25, 2024 |work=Milwaukee Business Journal |archive-date=August 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806203927/http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2013/03/18/mccarren-will-return-to-anchoring.html |url-status=live }}</ref> McCarren left WGBA in 2015 and became a team employee.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 9, 2015 |title=Larry McCarren joins Packers Media Group as sports analyst |url=https://www.packers.com/news/larry-mccarren-joins-packers-media-group-as-sports-analyst-15122833 |access-date=August 25, 2024 |work=Green Bay Packers |archive-date=July 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724033229/https://www.packers.com/news/larry-mccarren-joins-packers-media-group-as-sports-analyst-15122833 |url-status=live }}</ref> The team's intra-squad Lambeau scrimmage at the beginning of the season, marketed as ''Packers Family Night'', was produced for over a decade by [[WLUK-TV]] in Green Bay and broadcast by the state's Fox affiliates through the 2016 season.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.packers.com/media-center/tv-shows.html |title=Green Bay Packers TV Broadcast Partners |publisher=Packers.com |access-date=February 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630084908/http://www.packers.com/media-center/tv-shows.html |archive-date=June 30, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2017, Scripps and the Packers Television Network began to originate the Packers Family Night broadcast.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kirchen|first=Rich|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2017/04/20/green-baypackers-extend-partnership-with-wtmj-tv.html|title=Green Bay Packers extend partnership with WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308154600/https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2017/04/20/green-baypackers-extend-partnership-with-wtmj-tv.html |archive-date=March 8, 2021|work=[[American City Business Journals|Milwaukee Business Journal]]|date= April 20, 2017}}</ref> Preseason television games are announced by [[Kevin Harlan]], son of former Packers president [[Bob Harlan]], and color commentator [[Rich Gannon]].{{r|network}} Regular-season and postseason games not aired on a broadcast network are simulcast on broadcast stations in the Green Bay and Milwaukee markets.
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