The Chicago Sports Network (CHSN) is bucking the trend of other regional sports networks. Instead of dropping teams to try to streamline its financial operations, the network is adding more sports content. On Wednesday, the channel announced that it was adding college basketball from the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC), including parts of its year-end tournament to determine a champion.

Key Details:

• CHSN will offer both live and tape-delayed games under the terms of the deal.
• Four Illinois-based teams in the conference will be available on the channel.
• The deal will cover both men’s and women’s basketball games.

The deal will bring men’s and women’s college basketball games from the MVC to CHSN, both live and on tape-delay. Coverage of the conference’s basketball games began on Dec. 18 and will continue throughout the rest of the 2024-25 season.

“We are excited to deepen our commitment to Chicago and Midwest sports by bringing Missouri Valley Conference basketball to CHSN,” said CHSN Executive Producer Joe Riley. “The conference has many devoted fans in the Chicagoland area, and we look forward to becoming a premier destination for them to watch their favorite MVC teams.”

The deal will allow four Illinois-based colleges to air on the channel, including the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Bradley University, Illinois State University (ISU), and Southern Illinois University (SIU). In addition to regular season games, the deal will also cover the first and quarterfinal rounds of the men’s conference championship tournament.

Check out a schedule of MVC games on CHSN below. Viewers in Chicago can watch the channel with DIRECTV STREAM or Fubo, or over-the-air on channels 62.2 and 62.3. CHSN also has a direct-to-consumer service that allows local viewers to watch its content without cable.

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Chicago Sports Network

Chicago Sports Network is a direct-to-consumer streaming service that offers live games and other sports content to viewers in the Chicagoland area. Subscribers will be able to watch live games from the Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bulls, and Chicago White Sox without subscribing to a cable or satellite package.

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The service has a handful of subscription options. The Chicago Sports Network’s streaming service costs $20 per month for a plan focused on one team, or you can pay $30 monthly to access games and other programming for all three teams. Viewers can also pay annually for the three-team package, which costs $350, a savings of $10 over what viewers would pay to stay month-to-month with that plan.

The CHSN streaming service also provides access to the Chicago Sports Network linear channel, but only via the three-team plan. One-team subscribers will not be able to access a livestream of CHSN with their plans.

In addition to more than 300 live games from the Blackhawks, Bulls, and White Sox each year, the Chicago Sports Network streaming service carries a wide range of programming from the linear network. This includes titles like “The Chicago Lead,” “The Big College Football Show,” “The Big Pro Football Show,” and a simulcast of Chicago’s top morning radio show “Mully and Haugh.” Fans will be able to enjoy content featuring on-air CHSN talent, including Jake Butt, Joshua Perry, Eddie George, Brooke Fletcher, Tim Brown and more, bringing expert commentary and storytelling to life.

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