New Chicago Sports Channel to Be Over-the-Air

[Mark Jeffries]

Chicago Sports Network, the joint venture between the White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks and Standard Media that is replacing NBC Sports Chicago (which goes off after the Sox end their season on Sept. 30), will be primarily distributed through the subchannels of WJYS, a religious station licensed to Hammond in Northwest Indiana and based in south suburban Tinley Park, but with a transmitter on the Willis Tower--right now, the only cable or satellite system they've signed to for their Oct. 1 launch is DirecTV--they are planning to offer streaming in the future:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/09/16/chicago-sports-network-directv/?share=g0nteoiais0c6c00ohrv

When CSN programming isn't on, the WJYS subchannels will continue to air Jewelry TV and QVC--since those channels are directly on Comcast, the Chicago area's biggest cable system, they aren't carried as WJYS subchannels.