NBC Sports Chicago (formerly Comcast SportsNet Chicago) is an American

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that broadcasts regional coverage of professional sports teams in the

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, as well as college sports events and original sports-related news, discussion and entertainment programming. It is branded as part of the NBC Sports Regional Networks. NBC Sports Chicago is owned by a consortium of

Comcast Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corpora ...

the primary cable provider in the Chicago market (which owns 25% through the NBC Sports Group unit of

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and

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owner

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(who owns a 50% majority interest), and

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owner

Rocky Wirtz William Rockwell "Rocky" Wirtz (born October 5, 1952) is the principal owner and chairman of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks. He is also president of the Blackhawks' parent company, the Wirtz Corporation, a diversified conglomerate headquartered in ...

(who owns 25%). The

Chicago Cubs The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as part of the National League (NL) Central division. The club plays its home games at Wrigley Field, which is locate ...

, through the

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and later the family of J. Joseph Ricketts, formerly owned a 20% stake in the network from its launch until the Cubs ended their broadcasts on the network after the end of the 2019 season, with that percentage equally distributed in 5% increments to the remaining partners after that point. The channel is available on cable and

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television providers in most of

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, and throughout northwest

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and southwest

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and nationwide on

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provider

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. The network maintains main studios and offices located at 350 North Orleans Street, inside the River North Point Center in the Near North Side area.

History

In November 2003, Jerry Reinsdorf,

Bill Wirtz William Wadsworth Wirtz (October 5, 1929 – September 26, 2007) was the chief executive officer and controlling shareholder of the family-owned Wirtz Corporation. He was best known as the owner of the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hoc ...

and the

decided to end their cable television agreements for the Bulls, White Sox, Cubs and Blackhawks with

FSN Chicago Fox Sports Net Chicago (often branded as FSN Chicago) was an American regional sports network that was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and was owned by Cablevision for most of its history (from 1987 to 2005). News Corporation acquired a mino ...

, stripping that network of broadcast rights to all of the professional sports teams in the Chicago area. All three team owners decided to enter into a partnership with Comcast to form a new regional sports network, to be named Comcast SportsNet Chicago, whose launch was formally announced on December 2. CSN Chicago was created in order for the four teams to have editorial control over their broadcasts, although the network continued to share the rights to the Cubs, White Sox, Blackhawks and Bulls with

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(channel 9; which is owned by Tribune) and (until 2014)

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(channel 26). Comcast SportsNet Chicago launched on October 1, 2004. At that time, with the loss of all four teams from its lineup, FSN Chicago was effectively left with only events from some minor local and

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teams, national programming from Fox Sports Net, and Midwestern outdoors programs on its schedule; many cable and satellite providers in northeastern Illinois and northwest Indiana also chose to replace FSN Chicago with CSN Chicago upon its launch. After

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shut down FSN Chicago on June 23, 2006, Comcast SportsNet Chicago acquired the regional cable television rights to broadcast sports events, discussion and entertainment programs intended for national distribution to the Fox Sports regional networks. The network subsequently relocated its operations into FSN Chicago's former studio facilities on Orleans Street (which NBC Sports Chicago now also shares with the offices of the ''

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''). On April 2, 2007, the Tribune Company announced its intent to sell its shares in both Comcast SportsNet Chicago and the Chicago Cubs as part of the company's $8.2 billion purchase by real estate magnate Sam Zell. After inheriting the team from father Bill Wirtz upon his death in September 2007, new Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz decided to lift his father's years-long ban on local televised coverage of the team's home games (which the elder Wirtz imposed as a means to sustain ticket sales). On March 30, 2008, the Blackhawks announced a new broadcasting rights agreement. The team renewed CSN Chicago's broadcast rights (with the network carrying the bulk of the games), while local broadcasts were split between CSN Chicago and WGN-TV effective with the 2008–09 season; all of the team's games (both home and away) would be televised in high definition (due to the NHL's broadcast contracts, including ironically one with eventual Comcast division

, WGN-TV was barred from carrying its share of Blackhawks telecasts on its former national

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feed

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, although its game telecasts were available in Canada through the station's carriage as a superstation on domestic cable and satellite providers). Comcast SportsNet Chicago, along with the other Comcast SportsNet-branded networks, implemented a new network logo style (utilizing Comcast's then-universal corporate logo) and graphics package on October 1, 2008, coinciding with the fourth anniversary of the network's launch. On January 5, 2009, the network premiered ''Monsters in the Morning'', a weekday morning talk show hosted by former

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radio host

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and Comcast SportsNet Chicago reporter and former Chicago Bear Dan Jiggetts. The program was cancelled in January 2010, due to problems involving the show, including the program's main sponsor, the now-defunct online sports channel ChicagoSportsWebio.com, being implicated in defrauding North, Jiggetts and others in a

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scheme in June 2009; North subsequently became the host of ''Monsters and Money in the Morning'', a short-lived program for

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owned-and-operated station

WBBM-TV WBBM-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, airing programming from the CBS network. Owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division, the station maintains studios on West Washington ...

(channel 2), which briefly replaced that station's morning newscast. On August 21, 2009, the Tribune Company sold its interests in the Chicago Cubs,

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and 25% of Comcast SportsNet Chicago to the family of

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founder J. Joseph Ricketts for $845 million. CSNChicago

With Comcast's acquisition of

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(owners of

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and

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Owned & Operated duopoly stations

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and

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) in February 2011, Comcast SportsNet was also integrated into the new NBC Sports Group unit, culminating with the addition of the peacock logo in September 2012 and an updated graphics package based on that introduced by

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for its NBC and national cable broadcasts in January 2013. The updated graphics were implemented on CSN's live game coverage and all studio shows, with the exception of ''SportsNet Central''. In September 2012, Comcast SportsNet Chicago and its sister Comcast SportsNet outlets ceased carrying Fox Sports Networks-supplied programming, after failing to reach an agreement to continue carrying FSN's nationally distributed programs. ''SportsNet Central'' would ultimately implement a new on-air look of its own and on April 14, 2014, in conjunction with that change, the program switched to the updated graphics package introduced three years earlier. On October 2, 2017, the network was rebranded as NBC Sports Chicago, as part of a larger rebranding of the Comcast SportsNet networks under the NBC Sports brand. On January 2, 2019, the White Sox, Bulls, and Blackhawks agreed to an exclusive multi-year deal with NBC Sports Chicago beginning in the fall of 2019, ending their broadcasts on WGN-TV. The Cubs, with the 2020 launch of the team-owned

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, moved their games to that cable channel after 15 years with the network ending with the 2019 season. In April 2019, the network acquired regional rights to the

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of the

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. On October 1, 2019 Dish dropped NBC Sports Chicago from both its satellite service and its streaming service

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. In July 2021, it was announced that the

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(part owner of

and owners of the Bally Sports Regional Networks) considering buying NBC Sports Chicago and the entire NBC Sports Regional Networks unit from Comcast and could possibly to become the sister channel of Marquee, along with Sinclair's owned stations in the state of Illinois including ABC affiliated stations WICS/ WICD, its LMA partners Fox affiliated WRSP-TV/WCCU and

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affiliated WBUI in

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- Springfield,

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owned & operated station WHOI in Peoria- Bloomington, Fox affiliated station

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and

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affiliated sister

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(which is also serving the

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market), and

and ABC dual affiliated station

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in Quincy (also serving the

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market) if the sale is completed.

Programming

Sports coverage

Through its majority ownership by the owners of each of the three teams, NBC Sports Chicago holds the regional cable television rights to air a majority of games involving the

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Major League Baseball club, the NBA's

and the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks. The network also held the broadcast rights to games involving the Chicago Fire S.C. of

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. The channel had held the broadcast rights to games of the now-defunct

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of the

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. On April 13, 2010, CSN Chicago announced that it had signed a contract with Chicago Fire S.C. to broadcast at least eight of the franchise's matches for the 2010 season; on January 26, 2015, Comcast SportsNet Chicago signed a three-year contract with the Chicago Fire to become the team's exclusive local television broadcaster, after having carried its games the previous two years on WPWR-TV. The network also carries collegiate sports events including football games involving the Northern Illinois University Huskies and basketball games from the Illinois State University Redbirds. Prior to the termination of Comcast SportsNet's groupwide programming agreement with Fox Sports Networks, CSN Chicago additionally broadcast FSN's national programming following the shutdown of FSN Chicago, notably including the network's college sports coverage, such as

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men's and women's basketball games (on Sundays), men's basketball games from the

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(on various nights) and

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games from the

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and Pac-12 Conference (on Saturdays during the fall). From 2016-2019, CSN Chicago obtained the exclusive rights to championship games for the

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in football, basketball and wrestling, replacing the previous model of a statewide broadcast network in Iowa of stations in each market.

Other programming

NBC Sports Chicago's flagship program was ''SportsNet Central'', a nightly sports news program featuring live reports and coverage on the Chicago area's major sports teams as well as game highlights from local and national teams. The program also featured special regular segments such as "Luke-A-Likes," a popular segment hosted by Luke Stuckmeyer on nights when he hosted the program before his October 2019 departure. It was a viewer-voting segment featuring photos submitted by viewers claiming to resemble a particular sports figure) and the "Chicago Sports Trivia Question" (a

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segment shown before and after a commercial break featuring trivia questions related to Chicago sports. The network also carries team magazine and coaches shows focusing on the Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox, as well as the Northern Illinois University and Illinois State University football and basketball teams. It will continue to carry unofficial Cubs coverage with the start of the 2020 MLB season.

CSN Chicago Sports Awards

Since the network launched in 2004, NBC Sports Chicago has hosted the ''CSN Chicago Sports Awards'', an annual award show to raise money for the

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(this program dates back to 1987, when the children's charity started the benefit in partnership with SportsChannel Chicago, the later FSN Chicago). The honorees included top athletes from Chicago's professional sports teams, who were chosen based on their contributions to their teams and the Chicago community. To date, the "CSN Chicago Sports Awards" has raised over $6 million for the March of Dimes.

NBC Sports Chicago staff

On-air talent and journalists

* Patrick Boyle * Chuck Garfien * Jason Goff * David Kaplan

Digital Insiders

* Charlie Roumeliotis – Blackhawks Insider * Josh Schrock – Bears Insider * K. C. Johnson – Bulls Insider *Gordon Wittenmyer – Cubs Insider

NBC Sports Chicago broadcasting

Chicago Bulls

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– play-by-play announcer * Jason Benetti – alternative play-by-play announcer (fill–in) * Mike Monaco – alternative play-by-play announcer (fill–in) *

Stacey King Ronald Stacey King (born January 29, 1967) is an American sports announcer and retired National Basketball Association (NBA) center who won three consecutive championships with the Chicago Bulls from 1991 to 1993. King is currently the lead colo ...

– game analyst * Jason Goff – studio host * Will Perdue – studio analyst *

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– studio analyst

Chicago Blackhawks

* Chris Vosters – play-by-play announcer *

Troy Murray Troy Norman Murray (born July 31, 1962) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played in the NHL. He is currently the color analyst on NBC Sports Chicago broadcasts of Chicago Blackhawks hockey games. Murray was born in Calgary, A ...

– color commentator *

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- color commentator * Pat Boyle – studio host * Colby Cohen – studio analyst, substitute color commentator *

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- studio analyst

Chicago White Sox

* Jason Benetti – play-by-play announcer * Len Kasper – play-by-play announcer (fill-in) * Steve Stone – game analyst * Frank Thomas – studio analyst/fill-in game analyst * Scott Podsednik – studio analyst *

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– studio analyst/fill-in game analyst *

Ozzie Guillén Oswaldo José Guillén Barrios (; born January 20, 1964) is a former professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop for 16 seasons, primarily with the Chicago White Sox, from 1985 to 2000. During tha ...

– studio analyst

Chicago Bears

* David Kaplan – studio host *

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– studio analyst * Alex Brown – studio analyst *

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– studio analyst

Related services

NBC Sports Chicago Plus

NBC Sports Chicago Plus is an overflow feed of NBC Sports Chicago, which is primarily used to alleviate scheduling conflicts that result when two sports events involving teams that the network holds the right to broadcast are scheduled to occur simultaneously. The network operates a secondary overflow, NBC Sports Chicago Plus 2, or in the past listed as Alternate, if three concurring sporting events are scheduled for the same time. Both networks have also sometimes been used to show locally produced and FSN-distributed college sports events. NBC Sports Chicago Plus' HD simulcast feed was previously used as a help channel (an information channel providing instructional information on products offered by the provider) on Comcast systems when no sports events were being telecast (it had been the channel slot for MOJO HD before its 2008 shutdown); it now carries programming originally broadcast on the main NBC Sports Chicago network outside of sporting events. Originally operating as a gametime-only service, cable providers mainly transmit NBC Sports Chicago Plus and NBC Sports Chicago Plus 2 on non-critical networks, with Comcast carrying the primary Plus feed over the channel slot occupied by regional news channel

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(CLTV) or on another slot (such as channel 101) on its Chicago systems; conversely,

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carries the

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feed of the main Plus network on alternating channels assigned by the satellite provider. At times when NBC Sports Chicago Plus and NBC Sports Chicago Plus 2 are broadcasting at the same time, one of the overflows will be carried on the alternate channel, mostly on C-SPAN2, in the case of cable providers.

NBC Sports Chicago HD

NBC Sports Chicago HD is a

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high definition simulcast of NBC Sports Chicago. It carries all home and road games involving the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bulls and Chicago Fire as well as all studio shows in high definition. NBC Sports Chicago HD is carried on Comcast, RCN, WOW! Internet, Phone and Cable and

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– a Chicago-based general entertainment channel; the network formerly carried a full schedule of

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games from the

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:NBC Sports Chicago

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