May 24--Chicago-area Comcast Xfinity viewers who were planning to watch the Cubs or White Sox Monday night instead saw the beginning of their games interrupted by an outage, which was caused by equipment failure, Comcast officials said on Tuesday.
A spokesman said the problem has been fixed and Tuesday night's games for both teams will air as scheduled. Cubs-Cardinals is set to broadcast at 6:10 p.m. on CSN and the Sox-Indians game airs at 7:10 on CSN+.
Monday night's malfunction lasted about two hours, between 5:45 and 7:45 p.m. Game 2 of a Sox-Indians doubleheader was scheduled to broadcast at 7:10 p.m. on CSN, while the Cubs game at St. Louis was supposed to air on CSN+ beginning at 7:15 p.m.
The outage affected Comcast SportsNet Chicago's high-definition feeds on channels 200 (CSN) and 201 (CSN+). The standard-definition CSN feed on channel 37 also lost its signal around 6 p.m.
CSN Chicago's Twitter account advised followers of the technical difficulties and directed them to the standard-definition broadcast of the Cubs game on CLTV.
Company officials said they weren't certain how many subscribers were affected by Monday's outage.
plthompson@tribpub.com
