By Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter Published Jan 17, 2018 at 8:11 PM

For the first time in a decade, the Milwaukee Admirals will broadcast live games.

Team owner/CEO Harris Turer announced on Wednesday that the Admirals plan to televise two upcoming home games on Spectrum Sports across Wisconsin. The televised games will be on Saturday, Jan. 27 at 7:30 p.m. against the Ontario Reign and Sunday, Feb. 11 at 5 p.m. against the Stockton Heat.

"This is a tremendous step forward for the visibility of our organization," Turer said in a statement. "Having games on Spectrum Sports allows us to expose new fans to our tremendous product, both on and off the ice. We look forward to a successful launch of TV games and then to build on that momentum."

Aaron Sims, the longtime Voice of the Admirals, will handle play-by-play duties for the TV games, assisted by color man and former Milwaukee goalie Dov Grumet-Morris. The games will still be broadcast on the radio, with Ryan Miller providing the call on 105.7 FM The Fan (also available online via AHLlive.com).

Spectrum Sports – which features live sporting events, tape-delayed games and other featured shows on a wide range of high school, college, amateur and professional sports – airs on channel 32/1332HD throughout the Wisconsin division, which comprises the eastern half of the state.

The last time the Admirals broadcast live games was the 1998-99 season. The team for many seasons has shown game replays on Spectrum Sports and will continue to do so.

Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.

After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.

Jimmy appreciates references to late '90s Brewers and Bucks players and is the curator of the unofficial John Jaha Hall of Fame. He also enjoys running, biking and soccer, but isn't too annoying about them. He writes about sports - both mainstream and unconventional - and non-sports, including history, music, food, art and even golf (just kidding!), and welcomes reader suggestions for off-the-beaten-path story ideas.