{"id":13275,"date":"2018-01-20T15:18:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T21:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=13275"},"modified":"2018-01-20T15:18:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T21:18:28","slug":"radio-free-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/radio-free-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Free Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For the third time in four years, the White Sox may find themselves on a new radio flagship for the upcoming season.\u00a0 News broke yesterday that Cumulus Media, the parent company of WLS, had filed motions in US Bankruptcy Court seeking to get out from under \u201ca handful of extremely unprofitable contracts, including those with the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Bulls.\u201d \u00a0The Sox and Bulls issued a joint statement Friday, acknowledging they have worked with Cumulus \u201cto find an amicable solution that would provide broadcast continuity to our fans, while addressing Cumulus\u2019 financial issue\u201d but have failed to come to an agreement.<\/p>\n

The White Sox moved to WLS in 2016, signing a 6 year deal that took them away from the Score after 10 seasons.\u00a0 Following that move, the Cubs, who spent one year on WBBM after 7 decades on WGN, moved down the dial to the Score.\u00a0 Should the Sox find themselves looking for a new home, the options may be limited.\u00a0 After losing the Cubs, WGN may want to get back in the baseball business, especially if they can get a good deal.\u00a0 The only other option would appear to be a return to ESPN 1000, which the team left in 2005 following their World Series championship.<\/p>\n

The decision from the bankruptcy count is due on February 1, leaving a little less than 2 months before opening day for the team to reach a new deal, if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the third time in four years, the White Sox may find themselves on a new radio flagship for the upcoming season.\u00a0 News broke yesterday that Cumulus Media, the parent company of WLS, had filed motions in US Bankruptcy Court seeking to get out from under \u201ca handful of extremely unprofitable contracts, including those with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[78,1772,120,7723,3603,3602,7724,4794,2914,49,3016],"class_list":["post-13275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2005-world-series","tag-bulls","tag-cubs","tag-cumulus-media","tag-espn-1000","tag-the-score","tag-us-bankruptcy-court","tag-wbbm","tag-wgn","tag-white-sox","tag-wls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13276,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13275\/revisions\/13276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}