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TV listings for Cubs fans - April / May 2006

April 17, 2006 by diana

TV listings for Cubs fans - April / May 2006

I was reminded Friday night that when games don't show up in the regular telecast schedule to check the cable company's local access channel.

Sometimes you'll find those Comcast Sports Chicago PLUS network games that aren't mentioned in tv listings, Tivo listings or even on the PVR guide.
You just have to know its there.

Update: This page lists the games that air on the PLUS network:
http://chicago.comcastsportsnet.com/plus...

Cubs games telecast schedule - includes Comcast, WGN, Fox and WCIU listings. ESPN games not listed.
http://chicago.comcastsportsnet.com/team...

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I would like to suggest that the programs that offer Chicago Cubs related content include that little fact in their tv listings.

That way, those of use who search for programs with keywords "Chicago Cubs" in it might actually find those programs that they've worked so hard to produce.

Here's what I found for my Cubs fan friends in addition to the regularly scheduled games...

Fox Sports Arizona has a show called:

Baseball Player University

Sat 4/29 7:00 PM FSAZ
Duration: 30 minutes
No Rating
Sports, Baseball, Sports Non-Event

No matching info yet on their website...
http://msn.foxsports.com/
http://msn.foxsports.com/search?sp-q=Bas...

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Baseball Girls

The history of women in the game includes softball.

Sat 4/22 1:00 PM DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
No Rating
Documentary, Sports, Sports Non-Event, Baseball, History

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Baseball Tonight - ESPN & HD (multiple airtimes)

Fox Sports Chicago - FSN Baseball Report
Friday, April 21, 6pm.

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Lighter Side of Sports
Featuring the funniest sports bloopers and pranks that have been caught on tape.
Check local listings.

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Chicago Tribune Live - Comcast Sports Chicago
Multiple airtimes.
Discussions regarding Chicago sports teams.

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Sportsnite - Chicago Sports highlights
Comcast Sports Chicago
Multiple airtimes.

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Here's one that isn't meant for us:

Mets Classics
"1986: Chicago Cubs vs. New York Mets" Mets clinch the NL East, from Sept. 17, 1986
Thu 4/20 12:00 PM SNY
Thu, Apr 27, 6pm
Duration: 2 hours
No Rating
Sports, Baseball, Sports Non-Event

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Instant Replay WGN
Sunday nights, 9:40pm-10pm.
Chicago Sports highlights

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Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels
"Chicago" Culinary tour of Chicago
Tue 4/25 9:30 PM FOOD
Duration: 30 minutes
Interests, Cooking, Travel

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Where are they Now? 1985 Chicago Bears
ESPN Classics Sat 4/29 7:00 AM

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Urban Explorers
"Chicago" Hidden areas of Chicago
Thu 4/20 12:00 PM 182 Discovery Channel

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NFL Game of the Week
"Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions" From Oct. 30, 2005
Thu 4/20 8:00 PM NFLNET

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So, what did I miss?

Diana

TV listings source: Tivo

How does baseball game coverage differ on WGN, Comcast, ESPN, Fox, etc. ?
www.cubsnet.com/node/1073

Ryne Sandberg Day photos
www.chicagocubsphotos.blogspot.com/2005/...

TV listings for Chicago Cubs fans Winter 2006
http://www.cubsnet.com/node/882

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It Happens Every Spring (1949) movie

April 20, 2006 by diana, 3 years 47 weeks ago
Comment id: 1188

AMC aired the movie It Happens Every Spring this past week.

It was a cute movie about a professor / scientist who discovers a fluid that would make a ball avoid wood.

Yes, I know - such a thing would be considered cheating these days.
I'm sure some batters thought Bruce Sutter had this potion back in the 70's.

I am curious where this movie was filmed. How many ballparks did they visit? They show a Cubs/Cards game where the left side of the park looks a lot like Wrigley Field. But the shots of the dugout and the rest of the outfield don't have the right look, so I wonder if they used some shots of Wrigley and mixed them with another park.

Or perhaps the previous Busch stadium or wherever the Cards played in 1948 had a similar design to Wrigley. I don't know.

Check this website to see when this movie might air again in addition to the upcoming Mon, May 8 at 5:00 AM Central airdate.
If you're recording it, give it a bit of padding time. When I recorded it, the PVR shut down before the movie had ended. :(

http://www.amctv.com/show/detail?CID=169...

http://www.amctv.com

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Weblinks for Chicago Cubs fans

More baseball tv listings - May 2006

May 17, 2006 by diana, 3 years 43 weeks ago
Comment id: 1259

TV listings for Chicago Cubs fans.

Feel free to add to this list.

Source: Tivo listings

Room by Room

Next showing: Baseball Bedroom Redecorating with a baseball theme.

* Fri 5/26 7:00 AM
* HGTV
* 30 minutes
* No rating
* Interests, Educational, Home Improvement, Home and Garden, How To

MTV Cribs

Next showing: Baseball player Johnny Damon

* Sat 5/20 1:00 AM Central
* MTV2
* 30 minutes
* No rating
* Interests, News and Business, Home and Garden, Interview, Home Improvement

Costas NOW

Next showing: Baseball's home-run debate; Willie Mays Major league baseball's home-run debate; interview with former professional ballplayer Willie Mays; the history of steroids in baseball; the history of the home run.

* Thu 5/18 6:30 PM
* 75 HBO
* 1 hour
* No rating
* News and Business, Sports, Talk Shows, Interview, Sports Talk, Talk Show

Real Weddings From the Knot

Next showing: Christin and Michael A Southern beauty queen and a professional baseball player get married.

* Sat 5/20 4:30 PM
* OXYGEN
* 30 minutes
* No rating
* Interests, Reality, Romance


Nash Bridges

Next showing: Hardball Nash and Joe try to protect a gifted baseball player (Jose Canseco) from deportation.

* Mon 5/22 2:00 AM
* USA
* 1 hour
* No rating
* Drama, Action Adventure, Mystery and Suspense, Crime Drama, Suspense

The Drew Carey Show

"Drew & the Life-Size Jim Thome Cutout" Trying to fit in with the guys, Kellie steals a life-size cutout of baseball player Jim Thome, resulting in a police chase.

Fri 5/26 12:30 PM
TBS
Duration: 30 minutes
No Rating
Comedy, Sitcom

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Chicago related...

Edens Lost and Found

"Chicago: City of the Broad Shoulders" Active volunteers and community leaders; Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley helps build Millennium Park

Thu 5/18 8:00 PM 11 WTTW
Duration: 1 hour
No Rating
Interests, News and Business, Public Affairs, Community

FoodNation With Bobby Flay

"Chicago Neighborhoods" Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods; Swedish pastries; gyros.

Fri 5/19 9:30 PM FOOD
Duration: 30 minutes
No Rating
Interests, Educational, How To, Travel, Cooking

What You Get for the Money

"$600,000" Homes for around $600,000 in Chicago, Portland, Maine, Omaha, Neb., Gainesville, Fla. and Reno, Nev.

Thu 5/18 7:00 PM FLIVING
Duration: 30 minutes
No Rating
Interests, Educational, How To, Home Improvement

King of the Hill

A season in the life of Ferguson Jenkins. Chicago Cub, Cy Young winner, Canada's greatest pitcher.

Fri 5/19 11:30 AM (Multiple airings)
197 DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL
Duration: 1 hour
No Rating
Documentary, Sports, Biography, Baseball

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Photos from Ryne Sandberg Day at Wrigley Field

Meet Ronnie the Collie

Cubs vs. White Sox tv ratings

May 26, 2006 by diana, 3 years 41 weeks ago
Comment id: 1301

WHITE SOX & CUBS - Cubs' edge in TV ratings slips

Teddy Greenstein
Published May 26, 2006

Bottom line, the Cubs' popularity has taken a giant hit over the last two years. In 2004, Cubs games drew an average rating of 9.1 on WGN/WCIU and 6.5 on Fox Sports Net. (One ratings point equals 34,380 Chicago-area households.)

This season they're at 4.9 on WGN/WCIU and 3.4 on Comcast SportsNet. So the audience is down about 45 percent.

Read entire article at:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bas...

Cartoons of the day...

Superhero Pranks
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/triple...

Baseball questions
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/triple...

Superhero games
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mgg.as...

Photos from Ryne Sandberg Day at Wrigley Field

Meet Ronnie the Collie

RE: TV ratings

May 26, 2006 by cubsnet, 3 years 41 weeks ago
Comment id: 1303

Wow, those TV ratings really are down quite a bit.

WGN's WB ratings vs. Cubs baseball?

May 26, 2006 by diana, 3 years 41 weeks ago
Comment id: 1305

I'm curious how WGN's non-baseball and WB ratings compare to their Cubs and White Sox game coverage.

It seems like they get far better ratings for Cubs games on WGN than Comcast, which makes sense because WGN has a much greater audience due to cable, satellite tv (including c-band/big dish), and over the air antennas. We could even watch the Cubbies on WGN a bit while in Florida, something we couldn't do via Comcast Chicago Sportsnet.

(Yes, I'd like to see more Cubs games on WGN like in the old days.
We get superior picture quality on WGN compared to Comcast.)

Photos from Ryne Sandberg Day at Wrigley Field

Meet Ronnie the Collie

WGN

May 26, 2006 by cubsnet, 3 years 41 weeks ago
Comment id: 1306

I'd like to see more games on WGN as well, since I only have basic cable adn don't receive Comcast Chicago Sportsnet.

Additionally, I believe the Cubs are losing potential future fans around the country who otherwise would have grown up, like me, watching games on WGN.

Anyone watching Cubs vs. Braves via TBS?

May 26, 2006 by diana, 3 years 41 weeks ago
Comment id: 1307

Is anyone watching the game on TBS?

I like their graphics showing how the batter did in previous innings.

What other differences are their between the WGN/Comcast and TBS coverage of the game?

TBS and the Atlanta Braves
http://www.tbs.com/sports/braves/

Chip Caray
http://www.tbs.com/stories/story/0,,4418...

Photos from Ryne Sandberg Day at Wrigley Field

Meet Ronnie the Collie

Cubs/Braves pre-game "Bloopers" show

May 30, 2006 by diana, 3 years 41 weeks ago
Comment id: 1324

Did anyone else notice the 15 minute "Bloopers" program scheduled last Friday at 1pm - 1:15pm on TBS just before the Cubs/Braves game?

I thought it was an odd length of time for a show and an even stranger timeslot for a program like that, since usually a timeslot like that would be used for a pre-game show of some sort.

Towards the end of the program was a Bloopers segment showing ESPN reporters cracking up while reading a 2002 news story regarding Kerry Wood.

I wonder if the TBS sportscasters (Chip Caray, etc.) viewed this just before their show started and that was why they seemed to be giggling a bit at the beginning of their telecast???

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TV listings for Cubs fans - June/July 2006
http://www.cubsnet.com/node/1207

TV listings for Cubs fans August 2006
http://www.cubsnet.com/node/1378

Photos from Ryne Sandberg Day at Wrigley Field

Meet Ronnie the Collie

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