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In 2015, the Chicago Fire and NBC Sports Chicago (then Comcast SportsNet Chicago) agreed to a three-year deal, which includes 21 regular season and postseason matches for 2015.[88] Fire matches were televised locally on NBC Sports Chicago. Dan Kelly and former Fire coach Frank Klopas provided play-by-play and color commentary, respectively.[89] Matches were previously televised by NBC Chicago Nonstop and WPWR-TV.

In 2016, the Chicago Fire and Tribune Broadcasting agreed to a three-year deal, which will see all regular season and postseason matches broadcast on WGN Radio and their internet-only sister station WGN Plus starting in the 2017 MLS season.

On March 9, 2018, the Chicago Fire announced that ESPN had acquired the regional television rights to the team through 2020, and that their regionally-televised matches will stream exclusively on ESPN's upcoming subscription service ESPN+. The team's matches would be streamed online for free until the launch of ESPN+ on April 12, 2018. Behind Los Angeles FC, the Fire are the second MLS franchise to sell their regional television rights exclusively to an over-the-top content provider (with the former having signed with YouTube TV).[91] ESPN+ also holds the U.S. out-of-market streaming rights for regional MLS matches as part of its overall service, meaning that all of the Fire's regional matches are available nationally (excluding the market of their opponent).

Spanish-language radio station WRTO airs Chicago Fire matches since 2017, replacing WEBG-HD2.

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