Chicago Cubs’ Spring Training broadcast schedule released

Pitchers and Catchers report for Spring Training in less than a month. Today, the World Champion Chicago Cubs announced the broadcast information for their spring training schedule and includes something never done before.

As has been a tradition for many years now, the Chicago Cubs spring training games are available on TV, radio and internet webcast. However, for the first time ever, all 38 Cubs spring training games will be available on one of those three media outlets. This gives fans a chance to catch every single spring game, as the look to defend their championship.

The schedules consist of ten televised games, ten radio broadcasts, and 27 internet webcasts. A slight change this year is that some games are available on multiple media outlets.

In years past, if a game was televised, then it would not be on heard on radio or webcast. This year, there is a bit more of an overlap on the broadcasts.

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On the TV side, WGN gets four games and CSN gets six. All TV broadcasts will consist of Len Kasper and Jim Deshaies, who each just signed three-year contract extensions.

WGN’s first game will be February 25th, the spring opener at Sloan Park against the Oakland A’s. CSN won’t get its first game until Wednesday, March 15th against the Diamondbacks.

Radio

On the radio side, WSCR 670 The Score begins its second year of broadcasting Cubs games. Pat Hughes and Ron Coomer return to the radio booth.

670 The Score gets its first game on Sunday, February 26th in a rematch of the World Series, as the Cleveland Indians come to Sloan Park. The majority of The Score’s broadcasts will be on weekends (Saturdays and Sundays) as is typical.

For the webcasts, Len Kasper and Mick Gillispie will team up to bring you all the action. The internet webcasts games are available for free on Cubs.com and MLB.com. All you need to do is log-in to your account to access the games.

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In the end, it should be an exciting spring as the Cubs look to defend their championship for the first time since 1907. For the complete spring training schedule and broadcast information,  visit the Cubs website.