Chicago, IL (November 15, 2011) -- Comcast SportsNet, the television home for the most games and most comprehensive coverage of the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs, has announced it will debut a new, live, weekly series entitled Chicago Baseball Hot Stove, dedicated to the White Sox and Cubs off-season activities, along with all the key off-season moves and news around Major League Baseball. The debut airing of Chicago Baseball Hot Stove will take place on Tuesday, November 22 -- LIVE at 5:00 PM, exclusively on Comcast SportsNet.
Chicago Baseball Hot Stove will be co-hosted by Cubs PrePost Game Live host David Kaplan and White Sox PrePost Game Live host Chuck Garfien, along with commentary & insight from CSNChicago.com Baseball Insider Patrick Mooney, plusspecial guests from the localnational baseball scene are also scheduled to appear each week.
This weekly, half-hour studio show will closely examine and address every off-season move and rumor in WhiteSoxTalk and CubsTalk segments, along with providing up-to-the-minute regional and national baseball news, insider reports, exclusive playercoachfront office personnel interviews, extensive video highlights and expert analysis from reporterscolumnists additional baseball authorities from across the countryall with an emphasis on how they directly affect the Cubs and White Sox. From November 22 through the start of spring training in mid-February, Chicago Baseball Hot Stove will air live every Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 PM with an 11:00 PM replay on Tuesday evenings (additional re-airs can also be seen throughout the week; visit csnchicago.comtvlisting for listings updates).
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From an online standpoint, Comcast SportsNets newly-enhanced website, CSNChicago.com, will provide a LIVE CHAT every Tuesday at 5:00 PM that will enable viewers to directly interact with the Chicago Baseball Hot Stove crew and show guests by generating show content through Twitter utilizing the hash-tag HotStoveonCSN -- along with the Twitter handles of Kaplan (@thekapman), Garfien (@ChuckGarfien) and Mooney (@CSNMooney) -- to share fan perspectives and opinion. In addition, CSNChicago.com will launch a special Chicago Baseball Hot Stove page that will not only host the live chat, but will also include video, polls, news and a Twitter module, aggregating all WhiteSox, Cubs and CSNHotStove tweets.