WISCONSIN HERD ANNOUNCE 2023-24 BROADCAST SCHEDULE
By Wisconsin Herd Staff /November 13, 2023
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The Wisconsin Herd, NBA G League affiliate of the Milwaukee Bucks, announced its official television broadcast partner for the 2023-24 season will be WGBA-TV (NBC 26) and WACY-TV (tv32). Fans can watch all home and away games for the entire season on WACY-TV (tv32). This marks the sixth season Herd games will air on WACY-TV (tv32).
Ted Stefaniak, B.J. DeGroot, and Brandon Kinnard will return as announcers for the Wisconsin Herd broadcast.
Ted Stefaniak returns to the Herd for the 2023-24 season and has been a member of the Wisconsin Herd broadcast team since the inaugural season in 2017-18. With over 30 years of broadcast experience, he has been a play-by-play announcer for WIAA State Basketball Tournaments, Division 1 college basketball games and can also be found announcing high school games on the WACY tv32 Sports Showdown in Northeast Wisconsin. With career stops in Omaha, Council Bluffs, Rapid City and Wausau, Ted has called Green Bay home since 2002. He is a graduate of Creighton University where he was also a member of the basketball team.
B.J. DeGroot is the Brand Manager for WSCO/WHBY at Woodward Radio. B.J. is a well-known, local play-by-play broadcaster for his coverage of over twenty different high school baseball, basketball and football programs in radio and video broadcasts. In 2017, he was a finalist for the Best Sports Cast and Play-by-Play at the Wisconsin Broadcasters Awards.
Brandon Kinnard is the Sports Director at NBC 26 and tv32, the Herd's flagship TV station. He leads the station's sports coverage - which includes everything from the Green Bay Packers to local high school and college sports. Kinnard is in his fourth season as a member of the Herd's broadcast team. Previously, he has worked on telecasts of the WIAA State Basketball Tournament and tv32's Sports Showdown. Brandon also spent one year with BEK Sports - a North Dakota-based company that broadcasts college and high school sports. A lifelong Wisconsinite, Oshkosh is near to Brandon's heart as he graduated from UWO in 2013. It was in Oshkosh where he learned his craft while working at the university's student-run TV and radio stations: Titan TV and WRST.
In addition to the local telecasts, the Herd is scheduled to be streamed nationally seven times on Tubi (Nov.18, Dec.9, Dec.16, Jan.12, Jan.27, Mar. 2, Mar. 15) and one time on the NBA App (Dec.30). The Herd will also appear nationally on ESPN+ 15 times (Nov.16, Nov.21, Nov.30, Dec.5, Dec.13, Dec.27, Jan.18, Jan.24, Feb.1, Feb.7, Feb.22, Feb.28, Mar.12, Mar.20, Mar.27). All other games can be watched at NBAGLeague.com. To view the Herd’s complete 2023-24 broadcast schedule, visit Wisconsin Herd 2023-24 Season Schedule.
Herd single-game tickets are on sale now. To purchase tickets, or for more information on the team, visit www.wisconsinherd.com or call (920) 233-HERD.
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