Sports Briefs

PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia Flyers have signed an agreement with UHF Channel 57 for broadcasting games for the next three seasons.

Channel 57 was recently acquired by Grant Broadcating of Philadelphia and is currently off the air after operating as a pay-TV channel. It is expected to resume broadcasting in the fall as a free access regular channel.

Under the agreement Grant will broadcast 120 games live over the next three seasons. In the upcoming season, it will carry 40 away games and four home games.

Gene Hart, the 'Voice of the Flyers' since the club's inception in 1967, will handle the play-by-play while Bobby Taylor will begin his ninth year as the color commentator on the telecasts.