List of Detroit Red Wings broadcasters  This is a list of broadcasters for the Detroit Red Wings ice hockey team. WWJ did the radio broadcast for the Detroit Red Wings' opener in 1926-27 with Foster Hewitt on commentary. Regular radio broadcasts for the Red Wings started in 1935-36, with Al Nagler doing home games through 1959-60. Gene Osborn did play-by-play on home games in 1960-61. In 1961-62, broadcasts moved to WJR for one year and all games were broadcast with Nagler and Budd Lynch splitting play-by-play duties. From 1962-64, Budd Lynch did play-by-play alone, but he was joined by Bruce Martyn in 1964-65. They split play-by-play through 1972-73. Then, Martyn did all of the play-by-play until he retired after 1994-95 and was replaced by Ken Kal. Paul Woods has done radio color since 1987-88. Paul Chapman did it in 1986-87, succeeding Sid Abel, who had teamed with Martyn since 1976-77. Prior to that, Len Hardman did home games in 1972-73, Al Coates in 1973-74 and 1975-76, and Budd Lynch in 1974-75. On road games, Martyn either worked alone or found a local sportscaster to join him. The Red Wings televised Sunday home games from 1949-50 through 1959-60; the first six years were simulcasts, Budd Lynch did TV only in the remaining years. The Red Wings returned to TV when channel 50 went on the air January 10, 1965, doing simulcasts through 1972-73. Budd Lynch and Larry Adderly did TV the next two years. Simulcasts returned from 1975-76 through 1984-85. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the games were either on TV or radio, not both, because the same stations (WJR radio, WKBD-TV) had the Pistons' rights as well and that's how conflicts were handled. By 1985, the Red Wings also were on the Pro-Am Sports System pay-TV channel, who broadcast about 20 games a year. Budd Lynch was involved with Alex Delvecchio on color. Mike Goldberg did play-by-play in 1996-97 while Ken Daniels started working play-by-play in 1997-98. In 2001, WJR lost its longtime flagship radio rights to the Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings, both of whom moved to CBS-owned WXYT and WXYT-FM.