After 68 years on Tribune-owned CW affil WGN, 25 Cub games will air on ABC-owned WLS for four years starting next season in daytime, prime time and weekends--45 games (including some that aired on backup station Weigel-owned pure indie WCIU) that WGN produced have yet to find a home (and some of them may end up on WGN)--the rest are either national or on Comcast SportsNet Chicago (and it's believed that the Cubs are shooting for their own cable channel by 2019):
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/ct-cubs-tv-1212-biz-20141211-story.html There is a recent history for a major network O&O airing baseball in that WCBS was the OTA home of the Yankees not all that long ago. but it looks like that tradition of Wrigley home stands virtually every afternoon on OTA TV in Chicago is ending and considering that the patience of soap fans with ABC pretty much disappeared when "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" got cancelled, one wonders what sort of reaction might happen when they tune in to watch "General Hospital" on ABC7 and see the Cubs instead: -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
