{"id":649044,"date":"2026-05-17T19:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649044\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T19:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:04:07","slug":"steve-tasker-will-work-as-the-sideline-reporter-for-bills-radio-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649044\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Tasker will work as the sideline reporter for Bills&#8217; radio broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Tasker, a seven-time Pro Bowl special-teamer with the Bills, will be back with the team in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Via Sam Neumann of Awful Announcing, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nfl\/sal-capaccio-bills-radio-sideline-reporter-steve-tasker-97-rock.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tasker will become the sideline reporter<\/a> for the radio broadcasts of the team\u2019s games.<\/p>\n<p>The change comes as the games move from WGR 550 to WGRF-FM, which was the flagship station from 1998 through 2011. Tasker replaces Sal Capaccio of WGR, who had the assignment for 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Brown will continue as the play-by-play announcer, with former Bills center Eric Wood providing analysis. <\/p>\n<p>A ninth-round pick of the Houston Oilers in 1985, the 64-year-old Tasker was released by Houston during the 1986 season. The Bills claimed him on waivers; he played in Buffalo through 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Tasker promptly landed at CBS, where he worked from 1998 through 2018. He\u2019s now working directly for the team with which he served as a key contributor during four straight runs to the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Tasker, a seven-time Pro Bowl special-teamer with the Bills, will be back with the team in 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-649044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}