Do you want to know what Cubs Insider’s most-viewed post of all time is? It’s the one I wrote about the MLB blackout rules and how they impact those Cubs fans outside of the greater Chicago market who wanted to watch their team. Tons of search traffic would be driven to that article every time a game appeared on something other than CSN Chicago or ESPN, as many of the locally-broadcast games were syndicated out to various channels in Cubs-heavy markets.
While it was really cool of the Cubs and their local broadcast partners to offer those games up, and even cooler than stations throughout the Midwest chose to carry them.