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Article: Chicago teams opt out of Fox Sports deal.
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- Multichannel News
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- October 6, 2003
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Chicago's regional sports landscape was thrown a curveball last week, when four professional teams said they intend to pull their games from Fox Sports Chicago as of September 2004.
It's possible they'll team with locally dominant MSO Comcast Corp. on a new regional service.
But Fox Sports Chicago vowed to remain afloat despite the crippling loss of Chicago Bulls, White Sox, Cubs and Blackhawks games.
The teams notified Fox Sports Chicago last week they'd exercise an out clause to exit their existing agreement--which runs through 2009--with five years' notice, sources close to the situation said.
"We have our current product through ...