For as much as it feels like sports media is living in a “Jetsons” world, parts of it are returning to a “Flintstones” world.
While streaming continues to make inroads in the industry, broadcast television is showing it still has value. You remember broadcast TV, don’t you? Those channels we used to watch regularly by the tens of millions and required only a TV set and an antenna? For local sports, that mostly meant watching WGN, which carried Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox games until the teams migrated solely to cable.
