{"id":459071,"date":"2025-12-03T16:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/459071\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:21:16","slug":"marquee-sports-network-has-made-some-staff-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/459071\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquee Sports Network has made some staff cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Diane Penny is out as GM after joining the network in April 2024. Hired to accelerate Marquee\u2019s digital transformation, she failed to drive revenue with her efforts, leading to significant cuts to the digital content team. Content director Tony Andracki and reporter Andy Martinez were among them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIn the interim, we will use Cubs and Sinclair resources to fill [Penny\u2019s] role as we assess the future leadership needs of the network,\u201d Crane Kenney, the Cubs\u2019 president of business operations, told the Sun-Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">In place of Penny, a Villa Park native, Cubs chief commercial officer Colin Faulkner will oversee game coverage and production, all but erasing the line between the team and the network and putting the operation in the hands of a TV neophyte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Faulkner also will oversee marketing and talent. Marquee hasn\u2019t decided what will become of its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diane Penny is out as GM after joining the network in April 2024. Hired to accelerate Marquee\u2019s digital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,40817,4245,161,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-459071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicago-cubs-mlb-broadcasts-telecasts","12":"tag-chicagocubs","13":"tag-cubs","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115656555490256336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}