by Kent Sterling It would be very easy to crush the Chicago Cubs ownership for their greed in leaving WGN for Chicago’s CBS cluster of stations, but WGN was the change agent here. Ratings and revenue were down because of the protracted rebuilding mess, so WGN exercised an out last year that made 2014 the […]
by Kent Sterling Nothing lasts forever, so the Chicago Cubs likely being carried on another television station in Chicago is part of the evolution of life, business, and media. The Cubs exercised an exit clause to opt out of their deal, and so unless WGN-TV can bid successfully for the rights to broadcast a schedule […]
by Kent Sterling Add one more thing to the list of things Len Kasper does a whole lot right as the Cubs TV play-by-play voice. He calls the action in an authentically enthusiastic way, and he never elevates his performance beyond the needs of the audience. He is enough of a fan to call out […]