No pre- or post-game show expected on Canucks radio broadcasts
The good news is that Vancouver Canucks games will be on the radio for the 2026-27 season.
The bad news is that it will likely just be the games.
The Canucks’ radio broadcasts are moving to the Rogers-owned KiSS Throwbacks, which is on 104.9 FM in Vancouver, 92.5 FM in Abbotsford, and 107.5 FM in Chilliwack and the Fraser Valley.
KiSS Throwbacks isn’t a sports radio station, as those no longer exist in this province. Instead, it’s a station that plays hit music from the long-distant past: the nineties and 2000s.
The downside of putting sports on a non-sports station is that the game apparently won’t be surrounded by one of the best parts of sports: talking about sports.
According to Don Taylor and Rick Dhaliwal, there won’t be any pre- or post-game show on the Canucks’ radio broadcasts this season. The two reported this news on Donnie & Dhali – The Team on Thursday morning.
“This is just a rumour — we’ve got to confirm it — but Donnie and I are hearing that the Canucks games on radio will not have a pre and post,” said Dhaliwal. “But we’re also hearing the Vancouver Canucks are thinking of doing a pre and post show on their own.”
With no pre- or post-game show, KiSS Throwbacks could go straight from “No Scrubs” by TLC to the Canucks game, and straight out of the Canucks into “Oops!…I Did It Again” by Britney Spears.
The report that there will be no pre- or post-game show on the radio also jibes with what we’ve been hearing, but there is no confirmation as of yet. Daily Hive has reached out to the Canucks to confirm whether they are planning their own shows, but have not yet received a response.
In-house programming from the Canucks would be unlikely to have the same unfiltered takes from show hosts and callers, especially after a loss. It seems worth noting that the Canucks did not even run post-game articles on their website after losses last season.
Understandably, Taylor, a long-time radio man, was not pleased by the news.
“The pre-game show, setting things up; the post-game show, rehashing and getting upset with what happened — I love that stuff,” said Taylor.