Let’s cut right to the chase here. John Ourand, a well-respected sports business journalist, came out with a number of predictions for the industry he covers Thursday, and one of them involves the Cubs:
Comcast is going to play hardball with the Cubs’ RSN, which is going to come to market with a price of at least $6 per subscriber per month. To gain leverage, the Cubs will not put any games on WGN or any other over-the-air station. And Sinclair will use the leverage it has from its national network of around 150 local broadcast stations to work out a deal.