Marquee Sports Network just celebrated its fifth anniversary, but the future for the Cubs’ TV broadcast home remains just as fraught as the last half-decade. The network launched at the worst possible time, just before COVID shut down spring training and several months of the regular season, then experienced myriad (preventable) carriage issues with multiple partners. The most important of those was with Comcast, which serves more homes in Chicagoland and throughout the Cubs’ broadcast territory than any other provider.
That relationship remains strained, though Cubs president of business operations Crane Kenney told the Chicago Tribune’s Meghan Montemurro he’s “optimistic” Marquee and Comcast will reach a new agreement soon.