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The Chicago Cubs Radio Network (known since 2024 as the Southwest Airlines Cubs Radio Network for sponsorship reasons) is the network of radio stations that broadcast Cubs games on 30 stations in six states. [1] Veteran broadcaster Pat Hughes has been the play-by-play announcer since 1996. From 1996 to 2010, Hughes was partnered with Ron Santo.
The following is a list of Chicago Cubs broadcasters: Names in bold are recipients of the Ford C. Frick Award, ... Bob Brenly (1990–91 radio; 2005–2012 TV)
The Cubs' first year on WSCR paid immediate dividends, as the team won the 2016 World Series, its first world championship in 108 years, and the first since the birth of radio and modern communications. On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with Entercom (the forerunner of present-day Audacy). [183]
In November 1995, Hughes was selected by Chicago's WGN Radio to be the new "Voice of the Cubs". Hughes partnered with color commentator Ron Santo, former Hall of Fame third baseman for the Cubs, from 1996 until Santo's death in 2010. Their on-air chemistry came to be known as the "Pat and Ron Show".
Ronald Bryan Coomer (born November 18, 1966), nicknamed "Coom Dawg", is an American former first baseman and third baseman in Major League Baseball and the current color analyst and play-by-play broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs radio on WSCR 670 AM.
Zach Zaidman is an American sportscaster for the Chicago Cubs radio network (since 2018) and play-by-play announcer for the DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball team on WSCR 670 AM. He was a Chicago Bears radio network sideline reporter from 2004 to 2018. [2] [3]
ESPN Radio programming now airs on WTLX.) On February 3, 2020, WTSO rebranded as "1070 The Game." In March 2021, WTSO announced it would become the Chicago Cubs Radio Network's first Wisconsin affiliate, providing a locally based alternate to the Chicago-based WSCR , which also covers Southern Wisconsin with its signal.
The Cubs’ radio job on WGN-AM 720, working alongside former player Ron Santo and occasionally between Santo and Caray, was too good to pass up.