NFL football coming back to WGN radio starting Sunday

Posted October 11, 2019 1:00 am

Robert Feder

You won't hear the Chicago Bears, but WGN 720-AM is about to begin airing select NFL football games on Sunday afternoons.

Starting this weekend the Nexstar news/talk station will broadcast a play-by-play lineup distributed by Compass Media Networks. This Sunday's matchups are the Houston Texans vs. the Kansas City Chiefs at 11:30 a.m., and the Dallas Cowboys vs. the New York Jets at 2:45 p.m.

Under new Nexstar ownership, WGN hopes to use the games to promote other programming on the station.

This is a bye week for the Bears, who continue to air on Entercom all-news WBBM 780-AM/WCFS 105.9-FM.

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