When the Cubs announced that they were starting their own regional sports network, to take over broadcasts beginning after 2019, the idea was to bring “wheelbarrows of cash” (as Cubs President of Business Operations Crane Kenney once put it) to the baseball ops team and let them spend it on top players.

Well. Marquee Sports Network had the misfortune to debut right when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down baseball for months, and then they had to broadcast games from empty ballparks in a 60-game season. The Cubs then went through the “rebuild that’s not a rebuild” after 2021, and the channel never brought in the sort of money that the Cubs hoped it would.

Now, per this article by Jeff Agrest in the Sun-Times, Marquee is cutting back:

Diane Penny is out as GM after joining the network in Apr

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