The Fire will air their games on WLS-AM (890) as part of a two-year agreement that gives them their first local English radio broadcast, the Sun-Times has learned. Fire president of business operations Dave Baldwin will announce the deal at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday on the station. The first broadcast will be Saturday when the Fire host the Red Bulls at 7:30 p.m.
Max Thoma and Dasan Robinson will call the games. Thoma is in his fourth year as the play-by-play voice of the South Bend Cubs, and Robinson, an Evanston native, played six seasons for the Fire (2006-11). He also has called games for Chicago House AC, which plays in the Midwest Premier League. Max Anderson, who calls Illinois amateur hockey, will call select games.
