Marquee Sports Network is now available on Chicago-area Comcast/Xfinity systems

As reported here Thursday, the Cubs’ new TV channel, Marquee Sports Network, has apparently reached an agreement with Comcast, the largest cable TV provider in the Chicago market, as of Friday morning. While there has been no official announcement by either the network or Comcast, the channel was on my Comcast/Xfinity system when I woke up just after 6 a.m. CT today:

I will update this post with comment from the Cubs, Comcast and/or Marquee when an official announcement is made, presumably later Friday.

Comcast covers about 52 percent of the Chicago metro area, so a large number of Cubs fans who are subscribers to its service (this writer included!) can be happy this morning that not only…