Bob Koshinski - WNSA-FM 107.7 FM

WNSA-FM 107.7 FM

Bob Koshinski was also General Manager of all-sports FM radio station WNSA from 2000 to 2004. Adelphia Communications purchased then WNUC 107.7 FM in Wethersfield Township, in 2000. Koshinski, along with Engineer Mark Ewart, was part of the management team that totally re-built and re-formatted the new FM all-sports station. The rare FM all-sports format had success against Buffalo's other sports talk station WGR-550 AM until Adelphia sold the station to WGR's owner, Entercom Communications, in 2004.

Koshinski helped put WNSA-FM in the thick of the Western New York radio wars with several unique promotions which included the Western New York Sports Symposium. The WNY Sports Symposium was a yearly, two-day event held at an event center which included participation by the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, Buffalo Bisons and most of the Buffalo area colleges. The Symposium featured two days of sports talk from the event location and numerous round table discussions with dozens of notable Buffalo sports team players, coaches, alumni, and announcers. The Symposium created hours and hours of rich discussion on Buffalo's sports history.

Another of Koshinski's WNSA-FM on-air promotions was the creation of a radio fantasy hockey game called "Sabres Showdown" that pitted the Buffalo Sabres 1975 Stanley Cup finalists against the 1999 Sabres finalist squad. The game, which first aired April 9, 2001 prior to the 2001 playoffs, featured actual Sabres play-by-play man Rick Jeanneret and analyst Mike Robitaille calling the action as well as staged and archival interviews with Sabres players and management from both eras; players that were on the 1975 Sabres team and also were part of the Sabres's broadcast team at the time (Jim Lorentz and Danny Gare) were held out of the broadcast to make it seem as if they were in the game; they were replaced by other WNSA personalities, including Mike Schopp and Howard Simon. In addition, classic archived audio clips of past interviews of players and owners Seymour and Northrup Knox were played during sports updates, interspersed with the real sports news of the day, leading up to the game. The taped broadcast was a hit and sounded incredibly real, to the point where it was replayed in April 2002. The game was first created on a video game (EA Sports's NHL 2001) with rosters created from players from both the 1970s team and that from the 1990s. Jeanneret and Robitaille watched the replay of the computer generated contest to create a realistic sounding broadcast. The game actually foretold several rule changes that would later be implemented by the league, including the use of dark home jerseys (the 1975 Sabres were said to be wearing jerseys virtually identical to the current Sabres alternate jerseys), and the implementation of a penalty shootout to decide the winner. The fictional game was won 4-3 in a shootout, with Gilbert Perreault netting the game winner.