Between 2012 and 2017, McDermott and her team led the acquisition of more than 90 television stations and helped grow Young/Media General from a $220 million regional TV group to a nearly $5 billion media company.

[12][13] In February 2023, it was confirmed that the deal would be given a hearing before an administrative law judge, which the FCC Commissioner's Board voted to remand the merger review.

[22] Because the network's coverage area over-the-air outside the Chicago market conflicts with the rights to other teams, it is likely that alternate blackout programming will be transmitted to those stations.

For the same reason, no game coverage airs in West Michigan due to the presence of Detroit's own teams, including the Tigers, Pistons and Red Wings.

Lazerus wrote that watching CHSN via channel 62 over-the-air requires an antenna aimed at Willis Tower, and even then the picture quality can be "glitchier than scrambled late-night cable was in the 1980s."