March 23, 201610 yr http://www.cw23tv.com/newsroom/sports/mlb/ This is crazy. Channel 23 WBUI Decatur (The CW), serving Springfield / Decatur / and Champaign, has announced that only 10 White Sox games (out of 55 games games produced by WGN Sports) will be airing in 2016. A decrease from 12 games which were aired last season. Furthermore, the same TV station announced that the complete package of 45 Cubs games produced by WGN will be airing on either the main channel 23-1 (The CW) or sub-channel 23-2 (this TV). An increase from 12 games in 2015, however most of the balance aired on another Decatur TV station Channel 17 WAND. Why can't WBUI air the missing 45 Sox games? Cubs fans get all 45 WGN Cubs games, but Sox fans are relegated to 10 games! For anyone located in the Central Illinois viewing area that wants to complain, here is the contact information: http://www.cw23tv.com/sections/station/index.shtml#feedback .
March 23, 201610 yr It's probably because the ratings are terrible, to be honest. I don't know many Sox fans in Central IL - mostly Cubs and Cardinals.
March 23, 201610 yr Where I grew up in Central IL (not far from Bloomington), Sox were definitely third fiddle to Cubs/Cards but by no means off the radar. I'd estimate 20% of my high school graduating class were Sox fans.
March 23, 201610 yr Diehard Sox fan here living in Springfield. This WGN situation just kills me for the Sox and Blackhawks. The crazy thing is that I am also blocked out as local in Springfield due to the proximity to Chicago (200 miles) and not St. Louis (95 miles) for both the MLB and NHL expanded TV packages. It just sucks, and as Murphy's law would have it, almost every time I am free to watch a game, I get shut out. Here is to a great season though!
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