Chicago Cubs Opening Day TV Listings
March 31, 2008

WGN Morning News
Plans are for Opening Day coverage even this early.
Note: Not available for those who watch outside of WGN's Chicago area.
You may be able to catch some of those reports here:
http://wgntv.trb.com/news/local/morningnews/

9 WGN
Mon, Mar 31, 5:00a - 9:00a
240 mins

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SportsRISE
037 Comcast Sports Chicago
Mon, Mar 31, 9:00a - 10:00a
Highlights, features and scores as well as a comprehensive look at the national sports scene.
60 mins

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Honoring Ernie
9 WGN (Hopefully available to the cable tv Superstation audience)
Mon, Mar 31, 10:00a - 11:00a
Coverage of the Chicago Cubs' unveiling of a statue honoring Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks.
2008 | 60 mins
(I heard that the Ernie Banks ceremony will be shown online live too.
http://wgntv.trb.com )

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WGN News at Noon
WGN usually treats Opening Day as a major news story.
9 WGN [Dolby Stereo] [Closed Captioned]
Mon, Mar 31, 12:00p - 12:30p
30 mins
If you miss it, try http://wgntv.trb.com for clips from this day.

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SportsDay (If you don't have a dual tuner recorder, then I recommend recording the WGN Noon news and catching Comcast's sports reports both earlier and later today.)

037 CSNCH
Mon, Mar 31, 12:00p - 12:30p
Recap of the scores and highlights from the night before.
30 mins

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Next Year Is Here
[Dolby Stereo] [Closed Captioned]
Mon, Mar 31, 12:30p - 1:00p
Dan Roan, Len Kasper and Bob Brenly preview the 2008 Chicago Cubs.
2008 | 30 mins

Note: I would like to see a 2007 season in review program sometime.
The Cubs used to make a film version that fans could borrow each year.
I'm hoping that someday WGN will air each of those highlight films from past years.

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MLB Baseball
Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago Cubs
9 WGN [Dolby Stereo] [Closed Captioned]
Mon, Mar 31, 1:00p - 4:15p
195 mins

Hey, since the games appear to be closed captioned anyway, how about using the finished captions file and make the game transcripts available on the web like the Larry King show does.

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10th Inning
9 WGN [Dolby Stereo] [Closed Captioned]
Mon, Mar 31, 4:15p - 4:30p
15 mins

If you're Tivoing/recording to vcr this game, I recommend adding a half hour or so to the 10 Inning Show, just in case the game runs over.

There was a game this week that went to the 10th inning. I padded the recording time by a half hour and managed to hear that the game would stay as a 10-10 tie just as the recording ended.

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Chicago Tribune Live
037 CSNCH
Mon, Mar 31, 5:30p - 6:30p
Dan Jiggets and a rotating group of writers from the Chicago Tribune discuss sporting issues.
60 mins
(re-airs at 1am)

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SportsNite
037 CSNCH [Dolby Stereo] [Closed Captioned]
Mon, Mar 31, 6:30p - 7:00p
Scores, news and highlights of local and national sports.
30 mins

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WGN News at Nine (It's still opening day y'know)
9 WGN [Dolby Stereo] [Closed Captioned]
Mon, Mar 31, 9:00p - 10:00p
60 mins

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SportsNite
037 CSNCH [Dolby Stereo] [Closed Captioned]
Mon, Mar 31, 10:00p - 11:00p
Scores, news and highlights of local and national sports.
60 mins

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Of course, you can also check the channel 2,5,7 news reports and ESPN too.
I don't get in 2,5 and 7 so its not on my radar...

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Check this page every week to know when the next Cubs games will be televised. It includes the listings for WGN, Comcast & plus, ESPN, Fox, TBS and even WCIU. Subject to change of course...
http://wgntv.trb.com/sports/wgntv-cubsbroadcastschedule08,0,6548227.htmlstory

Note to Comcast: How about a Cubs live games only season pass using the schedule from the above webpage? As it is, only an ALL MLB season pass is available and my PVR just doesn't have the sort of hard drive space.

A collection of WGN tv sports reports can be accessed at:
http://wgntv.trb.com/sports/

Also see:

cubs.com multimedia guide
http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/mediacenter/index.jsp?c_id=chc
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As long as you're setting up the Tivo/PVR/DVR/VCR, you might want to set this one too:

Cubs Forever: Celebrating 60 Years of WGN-TV and the Cubs
WGN
Sunday, April 20 6-8pm Central time.

Interviews with over fifty players and fans including Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Ron Santo, Ryne Sandberg, Fergie Jenkins, Greg Maddux, Kerry Wood, Sammy Sosa, Jimmy Buffett, Bonnie Hunt, and Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

More info here on Len & Bob's Baseball Blog.

Also see:

Cubs and WGN: Losing team, winning combination

By Ed Sherman | Tribune reporter

Program listings source:
http://tvplanner.comcast.net

Have a fantastic Opening Day Everyone!

Go Cubs!

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