Chicago Cubs fans will have more direct-to-consumer streaming options to watch games this year.<\/p>\n
Marquee Sports Network<\/a> has reached an agreement to expand its DTC footprint through two notable streaming services.<\/p>\n Starting Wednesday, Marquee is available for Hulu + Live TV subscribers. Additionally, Marquee can be streamed live on Amazon\u2019s Prime Video through a monthly subscription ($19.99) that will include Cubs games, pregame and postgame coverage and all other Marquee programming. Both DTC options are for in-market Cubs fans.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re committed to delivering world-class game broadcasts to our fans through our linear channel and our direct-to-consumer product,\u201d Cubs president of business operations Crane Kenney said in a statement. \u201cBy expanding our streaming distribution, we\u2019re providing more ways than ever to follow the Cubs all season long.\u201d<\/p>\n In January, Kenney told the Tribune<\/a> the Cubs have more than 100,000 direct subscribers to Marquee since launching their DTC streaming option three years ago.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s changing, and it\u2019s changed because the number of cable subscribers has fallen off a cliff,\u201d Kenney said. \u201cWe\u2019re in the same boat as everyone else. Fortunately, Marquee stands alone, so we have to make smart decisions on how we spend our money. We made some decisions recently that were difficult. We\u2019ll continue to make decisions sometimes that will be difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n Within the last six months, those difficult decisions saw Marquee essentially shutter its digital online product after laying off multiple employees,<\/a> shift to predominantly emphasizing its Cubs game production and air fewer spring training games this year. Marquee ultimately selected 11 Cactus League games<\/a> to broadcast.<\/p>\n \u201cA really hard decision, but it seemed like it made the most sense to us in terms of, like any budget, where do you want to cut and what do you want to emphasize?\u201d Kenney said. \u201cSo we\u2019re going to emphasize the pre, the post and the games with the same technology, same talent, to give our fans the very best games. And we made that decision on spring training, we\u2019re going to do fewer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs fans will have more direct-to-consumer streaming options to watch games this year. Marquee Sports Network has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[7746,479,238736,238735,238738,10028,95549,363,99,238737],"class_list":["post-530990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-amazon-prime","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-how-to-stream-cubs-games","tag-how-to-watch-cubs-games","tag-how-to-watch-marquee-sports","tag-hulu","tag-marquee-sports-network","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-stream-mlb-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}