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Cubs 2022 Promotional Schedule Bobbleheads, #BudFridays, and more

By Reel Chicago Apr 8, 2022

The Chicago Cubs today released the schedule for promotional items, theme nights and Special Ticket Offers for the 2022 regular season. Five bobbleheads top the list on sel...

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Les Grobstein bobblehead unveiled at National Bobblehead Hall of Fame

By Reel Chicago Mar 11, 2022

The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled a limited-edition official bobblehead to honor longtime Chicago Sports Radio Broadcaster Les Grobstein, who passed away...

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WNBA’s Candace Parker and Turner Sports to produce feature-length doc

By Reel Chicago Jan 21, 2022

Turner Sports, in conjunction with Candace Parker and Scout Productions in association with Baby Hair Productions, has announced the green-light of an untitled documentary ...

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Big Hurt buys Field of Dreams

By Reel Chicago Oct 1, 2021

Former White Sox Frank Thomas has made another clutch hit. The baseball legendary Hall of Famer has now purchased a controlling interest in the Field of Dreams Movie Site locat...

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The Bears are on track to leave their Soldier Field home of 50 years

By Reel Chicago Sep 29, 2021

In a giant step that could ultimately move the Chicago Bears from their Soldier Field home of 50 years to the Arlington Park Racetrack, the Bears and Churchill Downs have signe...

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Baseball history is made as Sox play the Yankees at the Field of Dreams

By Reel Chicago Aug 13, 2021

It was like a scene out of a movie, as Kevin Costner welcomed the Chicago White Sox and NY Yankees who entered the field to play in the MLB at Field of Dreams through the same ...

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Meet the builders creating baseball magic at the Field of Dreams

By Reel Chicago Aug 12, 2021

You could say that the August 12 MLB at Field of Dreams game has been decades in the making. Ever since those famous lines were spoken, "If you build it, he will come…" the ...

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Chicago Bears, BetRivers, Rivers Casino in partnership

By Reel Chicago Jun 25, 2021

The Chicago Bears, Rush Street Interactive, Inc., a Chicago-based gaming company that operates BetRivers.com, and Rivers Casino, Chicago's leading casino, announced today t...

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Sportscaster Garfien directs 4-part Bears doc series

By George Castle Nov 25, 2013

Chuck Garfein, Comcast SportsNet Chicago anchor, is fulfilling a youthful ambition in writing, directing and editing a 4-part hourlong series on the memorable games in Chic...

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Producers of “5 Outs” Cubs doc win Holtzman Award

By George Castle Nov 11, 2013

Comcast SportsNet, producer of the “5 Outs” documentary about the star-crossed 2003 Cubs that aired in October, has already won its first award. Co-producers Sarah Lauc...

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WGN starts taping Wrigley Field 2014 centennial doc

By George Castle Aug 12, 2013

WGN-TV has started production on a two-hour special to mark Wrigley Field’s 100th birthday in 2014, by traveling to tape interviews with great Cubs of the past, including...

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Young Hawks ready to join teammates as ad spokesmen

By George Castle Jul 8, 2013

Companies eager to associate with a Chicago sports champion should have some fresh, appealing faces as frontmen with younger Blackhawks players. Superstars Jonathan Toews and P...

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Cubs announcer Hughes produces ‘Baseball Voices’ CDs

By George Castle May 30, 2013

Cubs’ radio play-by-play announcer Pat Hughes turns to production when he’s not on the air this summer, as he begins editing material for “Baseball Voices”, the CD serie...

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Revised sports talk show adds social media comments

By George Castle Feb 25, 2013

Viewers providing their comments via social media to the roundtable panelists is probably the biggest change made to SportsTalk Live presented by Smirnoff, Comcast SportsNe...

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Wert, Murdoch players in Cubs TV rights bonanza quest

By George Castle Feb 21, 2013

(Second of a two-part series) Fresh after assuming command of Tribune Co.’s broadcasting arm, the affable Larry Wert surely does not want to be known as the executive wh...

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Sticker shock in store for WGN over Cubs TV rights

By George Castle Feb 20, 2013

(First of a two-part series) It’s like an earthquake rattling up from the depths, a seismic shift could rock many corners of broadcasting and production in Chicago. The Cubs...

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‘Insiders’ boost sports video to websites, telecasts

By George Castle Feb 13, 2013

Chicago media outlets are going where standard-sized ENG camera crews sometimes don’t tread: in locker rooms on the road where videos of the city’s athletes are now being re...

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CSN’S use of NBC graphics package ‘best look ever’

By George Castle Jan 24, 2013

When a record number of Comcast SportsNet Chicago (CSC)regular-season hockey viewers (5.40 rating) watched the Blackhawks Tuesday, they also witnessed a new CSN Chicago pro...

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BTN ‘Olympic sports’ tourneys a coverage challenge

By George Castle Nov 7, 2012

Mark Hulsey knows his production crew is fortunate in televising the Big Ten’s men’s soccer tournament championship game being played Sunday on Northwestern’s lakefront fi...