Broadcasters
CKLW is the current flagship radio station of the Spitfires. It had been a longtime broadcaster of the Spitfires, but dropped the team in the 2002-03 season. After two seasons without a radio broadcaster at all, CKUE-FM picked up the Spitfires for the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 seasons, before the team returned to CKLW beginning in the 2006-07 season. Games on CKLW are commentated by Steve Bell and Dave Quinn.
On television, Spitfires games are broadcast by TVCogeco, a community channel carried on Cogeco's cable system in Windsor. Domenic Papa previously hosted and provided colour commentary for Spitfires games, alongside Bill Kelso on play-by-play and Brian Trenholm with analysis. However, in August 2012, TVCogeco announced, with a desire to introduce new voices to the channel as part of its goals, that the long-time crew were released from their positions at Cogeco and would be replaced for the 2012-13 season. The move to fire the Spitfires' long-time broadcast team was met with backlash and protests from Spitfires fans and other members of Windsor's sports community, who felt that they had been unfairly treated by the broadcaster for their years of service. The controversy most prominently surrounded the firing of Domenic Papa, who had covered the Spitfires and other local sporting events for 26 years.
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