Cubs announce spring training, regular season broadcast schedule
The last season of Cubs TV broadcasting as fans have known it will begin in spring training.
The Cubs on Tuesday announced their multimedia broadcast schedule for spring training and their television broadcast schedule for the regular season.
WGN-TV will begin its 72nd and likely final season of televising Cubs games before the Cubs embark on their own TV channel for 2020.
Four spring games will air on WGN, and two will be shown by NBC Sports Chicago. WGN will televise its first game when the Cubs host the Milwaukee Brewers March 2. Len Kasper and Jim Deshaies return to call all Cubs TV games. NBC Sports Chicago's first game is March 17 when the Cubs host the Colorado Rockies.
WGN will televise the club's regular-season opener at 3:05 p.m. March 28 at Texas. NBC Sports Chicago's first broadcast is 7:05 p.m. March 30 at Texas. ABC 7 has its first broadcast, the Wrigley Field home opener, at 1:20 p.m. April 8 against Pittsburgh.
NBC Sports Chicago will televise as many as 83 Cubs games, WGN-TV will broadcast 45 games and ABC 7 has 25 games. ESPN will televise three consecutive Sunday night games: May 5, 12 and 19.
Nearly every Cubs spring training game will be available via television, radio or Internet radio broadcast.
Ten games will be broadcast on WSCR 670-AM radio, and 22 will be available via Internet radio broadcast at Cubs.com. Fans will be able to access the Cubs webcasts on Cubs.com and MLB.com for free by registering for a login account with the website.
WSCR 670-AM will air its first game Feb. 23, the club's season opener at Sloan Park, when the Cubs play the Brewers. Pat Hughes and Ron Coomer return as the radio voices. Kasper will again join Mick Gillispie, radio broadcaster for the Cubs' Class AA Tennessee affiliate, for most of the Cubs.com Internet radio broadcasts.