http://wgntvsales.com/Sports/White_Sox_Schedule.pdf

 

 

The WGN Sports, White Sox over-the-air television affiliates for the 2016 season apparently are complete, but 2 markets are missing which aired Sox games last season. Those are: Des Moines and Ft. Wayne.

 

I really don’t understand what’s going on in Des Moines. Last season, 20 Sox games aired on Channel 23 KCWI-TV Ames (The CW). That same TV station only wants to air Cubs games in 2016. In 2014 and prior years, when just the WCIU-TV games were distributed outside Chicago, the package of 25 Sox games and 8 Cubs games aired on Channel 13-3 WHO-DT (Antenna TV). WHO-DT is owned by Tribune Broadcasting. If there are no takers at Des Moines, why can’t Tribune Broadcasting simply place all 55 Sox games on the TV station that Tribune already owns? Is that too difficult??? Tribune also owns the Quad Cities affiliate, WQAD-TV, which is showing all 55 Sox games in 2016.

 

Ft. Wayne is a slightly different situation. The sub-channel that aired 46 Sox games last season, Channel 15-2 WANE-TV (Antenna TV) is dropping the network on June 30th, 2016. All of the big 4 network TV stations at Ft. Wayne are tied up with ownership changes or network affiliation swaps, but the Cubs still managed to get 37 of their 70 OTA games to air in that city. Sox are now gone from television, but there is a new radio affiliate near Ft. Wayne on FM airing all White Sox games: 106.7 WFGA Hicksville, OH / Ft. Wayne (ESPN Radio).

 

http://www.espn1067.com/

 

 

Here are the 2016 over-the-air TV stations:

 

Chicago

Channel 9 WGN-TV Chicago (The CW) - 35 games + 1 pre-season

Channel 50 WPWR-TV Gary (my network TV) - 20 games

 

 

Rockford

Channel 23-3 WIFR Freeport (Justice Network) - 55 games + 1 pre-season

 

http://www.wifr.com/

 

http://media.graytvinc.com/documents/White...16+-+3-9-16.pdf

 

 

Quad Cities

Channel 8-3 WQAD-TV Moline (my network TV) - 55 games + 1 pre-season

 

https://localtvwqad.files.wordpress.com/201...eball-on-tv.pdf

 

 

Cedar Rapids / Waterloo / Iowa City

Channel 9-2 KCRG-TV Cedar Rapids (my network TV) - 49 games + 1 pre-season

Channel 9-3 (Antenna TV) - 6 games

 

http://www.kcrg.com/content/sports/KCRG-TV...-369301281.html

 

 

Peoria / Bloomington, IL

Channel 59 WAOE Peoria (my network TV) - 47 games

Not televised - 8 games due to conflicts with ABC7 Cubs telecasts

 

http://my59.tv/programs/chicago-white-sox-on-my59/

 

http://my59.tv/documents/White_Sox_2016_Schedule.pdf

 

 

Quincy / Hannibal

Channel 10-2 WGEM-TV Quincy (The CW) - 3 games

 

 

Springfield / Decatur / Champaign

Channel 23 WBUI Decatur (The CW) - 10 games

Not televised - 45 games for no apparent reason but the same TV station is airing all Cubs games produced by WGN Sports

 

http://www.cw23tv.com/newsroom/sports/mlb/

 

 

South Bend

Channel 69 WMYS-LD (my network TV) - 51 games

Not televised - 4 games due to conflicts with ABC7 Cubs telecasts

 

http://www.abc57.com/story/31405729/chicag...x-games-on-wmys

 

 

Indianapolis

Channel 23 WNDY-TV Marion, IN (my network TV) - 38 games + 1 pre-season

Channel 8 WISH-TV Indianapolis (The CW) - 17 games

(simulcast on Channel 23-3 WNDY-TV Marion and Channel 17-1 WIIH-CD Indianapolis)

 

http://wishtv.com/2016/01/08/cubs-white-so...-games-in-2016/

 

 

Markets missing:

Ft. Wayne (46 Sox games aired in 2015)

Des Moines (20 games aired in 2015)

Mason City, IA

Sioux City, IA

Ottumwa, IA

Lafayette, IN (some Indianapolis TV stations available on cable/dish)

Terre Haute, IN (some Indianapolis TV stations available on cable/dish)

Racine / Kenosha, WI

Southern Illinois

Portions of Southern Indiana

 

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Nothing like not being able to watch a single Sox game because I have cable.

Lol of course Mason City, IA is missing.

Lol of course Mason City, IA is missing.

 

 

You might be able to receive the Cedar Rapids TV affiliate using a quality, roof mounted, long range VHF antenna pointed southeast to Walker, Iowa. That's the location of KCRG-TV's tower, halfway between Cedar Rapids and Waterloo, which is 1,880 feet tall.

 

The distance from the center of Mason City to the tower is 91 miles. According to this website, you are at the fringe of the TV station's coverage area.

 

http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&...;q=call=KCRG-TV

 

 

 

Or you can start calling Channel 3 KIMT Mason City to request the station to carry White Sox & Cubs games.

 

Is 'Comcast SportsNet Chicago' available on cable / dish at Mason City for the non-WGN telecasts?

 

 

 

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Edited April 2, 201610 yr by InTheDriversSeat