- Canucks radio broadcasts are expected to land on KiSS Throwbacks 104.9 FM for 2026-27
- Brendan Batchelor and Randip Janda are both keeping their spots in the booth
- Read below for the pregame plans and why Rogers only had two stations to pick from
Canucks games are headed for the FM dial.
Vancouver’s radio broadcasts are expected to land on KiSS Throwbacks (104.9 FM) for the 2026-27 season, according to Rob Williams of Daily Hive. It would be the first time Canucks games are heard only on FM in Metro Vancouver.
The move became necessary in July, when Rogers pulled Sportsnet 650 off the air along with five other Canadian radio stations. That killed the city’s last all-sports station and left the Canucks without a home, though not without an owner. Rogers holds exclusive rights to Canucks television and radio through 2033, so the games were never going anywhere else.
Batchelor welcomed fans to his ninth season last October, back when 650 still existed:
That left two candidates. Jack 96.9 and KiSS 104.9 are the only Rogers stations still on the air in Vancouver, and a Rogers spokesperson had already confirmed games would stay in-house.
The booth stays intact. Batchelor is back as play-by-play voice, a job he has held since 2017, with Randip Janda alongside him on color and Dominic Sramaty producing.
Janda replaced Corey Hirsch on the broadcast in 2022 and became the first South Asian full-time radio color commentator in the NHL:
His return counts as rare good news for Rogers hockey coverage this summer. The company also cancelled Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi after 18 years on the air.
Plans are not finalized, but a one-hour pregame show is expected before each game. Postgame length will vary, with broadcasts running until roughly 11 p.m. following a 7 p.m. puck drop. Road games will again be called off monitors from a Vancouver studio.
Neither the team nor the station has confirmed any of it publicly.
The same thing played out in Calgary. Sportsnet 960 went dark in that round of cuts, and Flames games ended up on QR Calgary 770 AM.
There is not much runway left. Training camp opens in Penticton on Sept. 17, the preseason starts two days later, and the Canucks play their first regular season game on Sept. 29. Opening night at Rogers Arena is set for Oct. 1:
Whoever ends up hosting the Canucks pregame show has about five weeks to get hired.
