{"id":9201,"date":"2015-10-22T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=9201"},"modified":"2015-10-22T07:08:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T12:08:21","slug":"cubs-still-on-the-move-to-the-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/10\/22\/cubs-still-on-the-move-to-the-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs still on the move \u2014 to The Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1516\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/10\/22\/cubs-still-on-the-move-to-the-score\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1516\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1516\" alt=\"Chicago Cubs\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chicago-Cubs.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chicago-Cubs.jpg 600w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chicago-Cubs-300x178.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chicago-Cubs-150x89.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chicago-Cubs-400x238.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Chicago-Cubs-200x119.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Chicago Cubs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>CBS Radio plans to move <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cubs.mlb.com\/index.jsp?c_id=chc\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> baseball broadcasts to sports\/talk <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/station\/670-the-score\/\" target=\"_blank\">WSCR AM 670<\/a> next year, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>For the past season, the Cubs aired on all-news <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/station\/wbbm-newsradio-780-and-1059fm\/\" target=\"_blank\">WBBM AM 780.<\/a> Under a seven-year agreement signed in 2014, CBS Radio has a one-time opportunity to move the team to The Score in 2016.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rod Zimmerman, senior vice president and market manager of CBS Radio Chicago, would not confirm the move Thursday but said a final decision would be announced \u201cprobably in the next 30 to 45 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shift would coincide with the departure of<a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.whitesox.mlb.com\/index.jsp?c_id=cws\" target=\"_blank\"> Chicago White Sox<\/a> baseball broadcasts from The Score after 10 years, and that team\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2015\/07\/16\/double-play-wls-signs-radio-deals-for-white-sox-bulls\/\" target=\"_blank\">move <\/a>to Cumulus Media news\/talk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlsam.com\" target=\"_blank\">WLS AM 890, <\/a>effective this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Cubs season ended short of a National League Championship Series victory Wednesday, the popularity of the club proved a ratings bonanza to WBBM Newsradio, which is expected to widen its first-place lead in the market when Nielsen Audio figures for October are released.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Radio acquired the radio rights after Tribune Media news\/talk <a href=\"http:\/\/wgnradio.com \" target=\"_blank\">WGN AM 720<\/a> cut its historic ties to the Cubs dating back to 1925.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Radio plans to move Chicago Cubs baseball broadcasts to sports\/talk WSCR AM 670 next year, sources said. For the past season, the Cubs aired on all-news WBBM AM 780. Under a seven-year agreement signed in 2014, CBS Radio has a one-time opportunity to move the team to The Score in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9204,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions\/9204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}