It’s a fact of life in 2021: Modern TV consumers are “cutting the cord” and leaving their cable or satellite subscriptions behind for other means of consuming TV programming.
This has been an issue for baseball fans. Regional sports networks, including the Cubs’ Marquee Sports Network, have insisted on a subscription to cable or satellite before permitting in-market streaming of baseball games. This has been frustrating for Cubs fans who are cord-cutters, because as of now just one streaming service (AT&T Now) carries Marquee — others, such as Hulu+ and YouTube TV, have either resisted carrying the channel or did last year, but no longer do so.