Cubs and Sinclair team up to launch regional sports network in 2020
by Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune
Feb 13, 2019
4 minutes
CHICAGO - The Chicago Cubs are teaming with Sinclair Broadcast Group to launch a regional sports network in February 2020 that will become the exclusive television home of the Cubs.
The Marquee Sports Network will air the full regular season schedule, expanded pregame and postgame coverage, classic broadcasts from the archives and other local sports programming.
It marks the end of more than 70 years of over-the-air broadcasts for the Cubs, and the beginning of an ambitious endeavor to sell cable and satellite providers on the value of the carrying the new regional network - no sure thing in an increasingly fragmented world
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