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MLB team the Chicago Cubs' new RSN, which will launch next year in partnership with Sinclair Broadcast Group, could net somewhere between $40m (€35m) and $50m in positive cash flow. Ma

NBC Sports Chicago, the regional NBC-Comcast sports channel, has signed new, multi-year rights deals with the White Sox baseball team, the Bulls basketball team and the Blackhawks ice hockey team.

Major League Baseball franchise the Chicago Cubs has signed a new five-year local rights deal with cable-television broadcaster WGN-TV.

US MLB baseball club the Chicago Cubs is considering launching a multicast television station to broadcast games currently held under the team’s local rights deal with cable-television broadcaster WGN-TV, according to the Chicago Tribune.

NHL ice hockey team Chicago Blackhawks has agreed a three-year extension to its partnership with local broadcast rights-holder WGN-TV.

Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire has signed a one-year extension to its local television rights partnership with WPWR My50 Chicago covering the 2014 MLS season.