Ten Milwaukee Bucks games this season will be broadcast on free, local, over-the-air television this season, bringing such broadcasts back for the first time since the 2006-07 season, Weigel Broadcasting said Monday.
The games will air on WMLW (channels 49.1/58.3, Spectrum channels 7/8/608/982/1007, DIRECTV channel 49, Dish Network channel 49, and AT&T U-Verse channels 7/1007),, with one also showing on CBS 58 and another also airing on Telemundo Wisconsin.
Weigel said that other channels across the state that will air the games will be announced, too.
The games – hosted by the Bucks broadcast team, including Lisa Byington, Marques Johnson, Steve Novak and Melanie Ricks – are:
- Friday, Feb. 23 at Minnesota Timberwolves, 7 p.m., WMLW & CBS 58
- Friday, March 1 at Chicago Bulls, 9 p.m., WMLW
- Monday, March 4 vs. Los Angeles Clippers, 7 p.m., WMLW & Telemundo WI
- Friday, March 8 at Los Angeles Lakers, 9 p.m., WMLW
- Wednesday, March 20 at Boston Celtics, 6:30 p.m., WMLW
- Thursday, March 28 at New Orleans Pelicans, 7 p.m., WMLW
- Wednesday, April 3 vs. Memphis Grizzlies, 6:30 p.m., WMLW
- Friday, April 5 vs. Toronto Raptors, 7 p.m., WMLW
- Wednesday, April 10 vs. Orlando Magic, 7 p.m., WMLW
- Friday, April 12 at Oklahoma City Thunder, 7 p.m., WMLW
“Broadcasting Bucks games on free over the air television is a tremendous opportunity to give even more of our fans easy access to their team,” said Bucks and Fiserv Forum President Peter Feigin, in Monday’s announcement.
“We appreciate our partnership with Weigel for this exciting initiative.”
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
