{"id":7171,"date":"2014-12-12T19:30:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T01:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=7171"},"modified":"2018-12-15T07:17:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T13:17:01","slug":"moving-down-the-dial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/moving-down-the-dial\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Down The Dial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ABC_7_Chicago_2013_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7172\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ABC_7_Chicago_2013_logo.jpg\" alt=\"ABC_7_Chicago_2013_logo\" width=\"562\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ABC_7_Chicago_2013_logo.jpg 562w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ABC_7_Chicago_2013_logo-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/a>In a shocking development, the Cubs reached an agreement today with the local ABC station\u00a0to air 25 games per season through the 2019 season. \u00a0The deal should net the Cubs nearly $19 million per season. \u00a0The Cubs are still looking for a broadcast partner for 45 games that had previously aired on WGN.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes out of left field, as most teams games are moving away from over-the-air channels in general, let along network owned and operated stations like WLS. \u00a0The deal will likely cause pre-emptions of popular syndicated programs like <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> and <em>Wheel of Fortune<\/em> or network programming.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, this move doesn&#8217;t make a whole lot of sense to me. \u00a0The plusses of being associated with a hopefully improved Cubs team would seem to be outweighed by complaints from viewers of <em>Dancing With The Stars<\/em> or <em>Scandal<\/em> when their shows are delayed. \u00a0I guess time will tell if the deal works out for all involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking development, the Cubs reached an agreement today with the local ABC station\u00a0to air 25 games per season through the 2019 season. \u00a0The deal should net the Cubs nearly $19 million per season. \u00a0The Cubs are still looking for a broadcast partner for 45 games that had previously aired on WGN. The move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[68,120,3746,1725,3821,2914,5184],"class_list":["post-7171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-abc","tag-cubs","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-jeopardy","tag-scandal","tag-wgn","tag-wheel-of-fortune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7173,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions\/7173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}