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Good point about multiple channels

Jerry will be majority owner of this new station will he not? If that is case Hawks will find themselves the one's unavailable if Bulls get priority

I dont like this move to be frank

NBC Chicago was great. The Wirtz/Reinsdorf already owned 3/4 of channel and should have bought out the rest and rebranded instead of moving to start a network from ground up

At end of day I expect fans to be screwed over in end and for product quality to be subpar
 
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Does CHSN have a website operating yet...or does it only come online October 1st?

If they are online now,what is the website internet .com address to search for? ( I do notcseem to find any link as of now in early September).

Or can you only get to aCHmSN website via an app?..and if so,is that app only available only locally for those in the Chicago area?

I know Pat Boyle has been hired byCJSN but wonder who else is joining tge Blackhawks coverage team onthis new network?

I hope they hire Charlie Roumeluitis too,but have heard nothing on that.
 
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hawksfan50 said:
Does CHSN have a website operating yet...or does it only come online October 1st?

If they are online now,what is the website internet .com address to search for? ( I do notcseem to find any link as of now in early September).

Or can you only get to aCHmSN website via an app?..and if so,is that app only available only locally for those in the Chicago area?

I know Pat Boyle has been hired byCJSN but wonder who else is joining tge Blackhawks coverage team onthis new network?

I hope they hire Charlie Roumeluitis too,but have heard nothing on that.
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Prepare to be underwhelmed...

CHSN

Chicago Sports Network
chsn.com chsn.com
 
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bwana63 said:
+infinity

CSN was dropped because Reinsdorf/Wirtz found a firm that would do it for less. That said firm was a skeleton outfit from Nashville (IIRC) nobody has ever heard of didn't matter. I'm sure things will go swimmingly!
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Not really. NBC Sports is getting out of the RSN business, that's pretty well documented.
 
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What is there to get upset about. They said that its going to be available on the apps. If not, you can setup an antenna to view it for literally free. Zero subscription needed. Sounds way better than paying lol
 
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You probably won't need an antenna if you have cable, relax.

CHSN will likely end up with carriage on multiple cable providers. Comcast is still the place to be in the Chicago-area market. It’ll be interesting to see whether CHSN lands carriage with Comcast through a tiered package or possibly through the FCC’s must-carry rights as a local television station.

“The must-carry law requires the cable provider to air them, so you are in paid TV packages when you are in broadcasts,” said Patrick Crakes, a media consultant and former TV executive. “That’s the good thing. The bad thing is (the networks) aren’t getting paid for it, anything but advertising, and you’re way down the line. When you go to your electronic programming guide from your paid distributor, you see your ABC and your FOX. Once you get past 13, you’ve got Channel 68 and all this other stuff down there. They’re going to be somewhere there probably.”
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My hope is they at least have their own app. I watch a lot of games on a 2nd screen monitor, so if they don't I may need to upgrade that to an actual TV I can hook an antenna up to. I'd be willing to pay $5-10 a month to guarantee I can watch over the internet without having to deal with that, although it looks like I can buy a 24" TV for like $60.
 
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I'll be honest. I thought the same thing as Pez. People might say "oh well you two old f***s are showing your age" ..... well I can't dispute that. :laugh:
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So did I. Like... wtf? An antenna? :laugh:

I still think it's silly to go about all this. Their product was perfectly fine as it was, IMO. Outside of the dogshit broadcaster they got rid of, but that's no longer an issue this season.
 
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ChiHawks10 said:
So did I. Like... wtf? An antenna? :laugh:

I still think it's silly to go about all this. Their product was perfectly fine as it was, IMO. Outside of the dogshit broadcaster they got rid of, but that's no longer an issue this season.
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Cable. Is. DYING! Less and less people are paying it.

They will be available in far more homes than NBCSCH ever was. Imagine seeing that as a negative.
 
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