CHSN
Chicago Sports Network
How much does CHSN cost?
Prices are current as of 1 Oct 2026.
5 subscriptions from $19.99
In the United States, CHSN has 5 subscriptions priced $19.99 – 349.99.
| Subscription | Period | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Blackhawks Monthly Team Pass | Monthly | $19.99 |
| Bulls Monthly Team Pass | Monthly | $19.99 |
| White Sox Monthly Team Pass | Monthly | $19.99 |
| All 3 teams - Monthly | Monthly | $29.99 |
| Annual Plan | Annual | $349.99 |
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| CHSN |   Chicago Bears Official App |   DK Horse Racing & Betting |   ESPN Chicago |   Chicago Bulls |   Marquee Sports Network |   Chicago Blackhawks |   Circa Sports Illinois |   Chicago Fire FC |   United Center |   My CDGA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rating / 5 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 1.9 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 4.3 |
| Reviews | 3.7K | 111K | 8K | 4K | 2.8K | 1.3K | 143 | 87 | 33 | 23 | 6 |
| Released | 2024 | 2011 | 2023 | 2020 | 2024 | 2020 | 2021 | 2023 | 2023 | 2012 | 2011 |
| Monthly price | $19.99 | — | — | — | — | $19.99 | — | — | — | — | — |
The going rate for each plan in United States, in its own currency, shaded from the cheapest price on the row to the dearest. Plans fewer than four in ten of the priced apps sell are left out.
CHSN reviews
4.3 out of 5, based on 3,672 reviews.
What people like
- You can watch your favorite teams
- Cheaper than having cable TV
- Great for following local sports news
What they complain about
- App freezes and buffers constantly
- Replays take too long to appear
- Blackout blocks games even in Chicago
- Rewind feature is very limited
Great
Go Sox
Amateurish and buggy
Can’t toggle between 720p and 1080p without the picture breaking up big time. The dysfunction of this app bleeds over into the YouTube app when i make the change. Rewind/fast forward is a joke, the increments are about 5 minutes long! What if i want to go back 10 seconds and rewatch a play? Nope! Can’t be done. The app extras are minimal (pregame and postgame) and not the great features the owner promised. More work needed!
Really Needs Work
This app is just overall very bad. It has numerous bugs, and just does not work a lot of the times. You would think CHSN would iron out some of these issues if they’re going to charging the amount they charge for it. Love being able to watch the Sox and the price isn’t the issue. The issue is the app just needs to be smoothed out a whole lot. Hoping they can make some updates and give us a product worth the money.
Picture quality is lacking
Picture quality is terrible switched to the marquee feed looks much better
Southside Pride
Best app ever! I can finally watch Sox games! DOWNLOAD THIS APP NOW!
Trash
Your app constantly freezes on different devices. This is the only app I have a problem with. You should be embarrassed to charge people for this garbage.
Scores for today’s game don’t show after it’s finished
Unless I’m missing something it’s ridiculously challenging to view what the score was for a game that finished 2+ hours ago
My opinion on using app
I was watching the channel from the start and when game was over in live playing it cut off my feed. Unable to continue to watch in delay format. I also try to skip ahead of playing and commercials with my apple tv system and is not easy to use. In my other services the rewind and fast forward better
I love CSN
Would love to see more BEARS
AOL Loading speed
To pay this much per year you’d expect better performance on the speed on this app.
Constantly freezes
Having a hard time with this app, freezes every five minutes, I have to go out and back in to watch a game constantly. Only happens during commercials. Needs a fix.
Slow
Buffers every commercial break.
Best app ever holy
I’m able to watch all my fav teams for pretty cheap, love you CHSN
High price, low performance
This app is so bad for how much they charge. It spoils games regularly bc they automatically stop the bcast when they think the game is supposed to end without factoring in delays or if someone starts it a few min late (feels incredibly cheap - fire your UX!). Fast forwarding is absolute garbage despite being an easy fix. Are you seriously trying to vibe code this while blocking out all local TV networks, Jerry? Ppl only pay bc they have no choice. Put more into the functionality - not just the programming.
Location tracking sucks
It shows me as ‘out of the viewing area’ when I’m literally in Chicago. If I can’t watch thru the app, MLB.tv is blacked out. In other words, I can’t legally watch the game when I’m not at home. Ridiculous when I’m paying $20 a month for this
Ok, but what can I do. I’m stuck with this app to watch the Sox.
Always slow to load, and sometimes doesn’t load at all. My other apps are fine, so it isn’t my internet. Finally, connects after 2-3 tries, but then can disconnect, and I have to reload it. Again, I don’t drop other apps. Monthly subscription, but still can’t get a game because it’s national and they have a lot commentary on the side during a game that I don’t care about. Just show the game. Total BS, but here I am paying a monthly subscription so I can see my team. I hate the current climate we’re in about watching sports. Can have 3 apps and still can’t follow/watch every game.
It rules
Great quality. So great.
This App is the Worst
I never leave reviews, but this app was so insistent on hearing mine.
Constant Buffering
I have to force close and restart the app nearly 5 times a game. This only happens during live games. It buffers and stalls. This does not happen with any of my other live streaming apps. Not happy paying a high monthly fee for a less than solid app.
Finally
They finally fixed it to work in horizontal mode on iPads. Bravo. It is now usable.
Absolutely Outstanding
The best baseball sports network
Hardly ever works
I pay $20 a month for an app that works half the time if I’m lucky. Good stuff CHSN!!!
Glad to watch the sox, but the app has problems.
UPDATE 2: back down to 2 stars. The iPad app is so quiet that I am two feet away and at max volume I can’t hear it. Also, I was watching a game yesterday a bit behind because I was busy, and the app died in the 8th and the replay wasn’t available. Umm why? This happens a lot, it will sometimes take 5+ hours after a game to get the replay up, when 90 min later I can watch it on the mlb app (which is where I finished last night’s game). Why is the replay not available immediately, especially when I was already actively watching it? UPDATE: I found if I hit “start from beginning” on the iPad (NOT play live), it will keep the landscape mode! Even if I am only a minute behind. Bumping to 4 stars because I am a genius and they are getting some after glow. I have an iPhone 16 and the video frequently freezes for a second, making watching a game frustrating. I have an iPad a16 and Chsn will not, under any circumstances, allow me to full screen in landscape mode. I have tried locking the screen in landscape, and the video will briefly fill the screen before forcing it always back to a small video in portrait mode. Extremely frustrating. Pip will work in landscape, but no full screen attempt will allow it. I also have issues with the Roku app. There’s no option to hide the scores in Roku, and there’s no way to start a game from the beginning the way there is on iPhone and iPad. Frankly, not a single way I try to watch games is great. Still, I don’t have cable and it’s nice to watch the games, even if the process is frustrating every time.
Go Chicago
I ❤️ Chicago.
Service and Performance
This has to be the worst app on the app store. Nothing but issues. Paying for a service that wont allow me to view games from my phone when I am anywhere except my house. Now having issues with getting the game to play on my home tv. The game is currently working from my phone but will not play on my tv thru the app. Have emailed customer service and they are very unresponsive. I have had issues 6 times in my first month of service and have had to miss 6 games that I paid hard earned money to watch. This app also glitches constantly and drops in and out of HD all the time. Overall horrible app at a premium price to use their service.
White Sox
👍 great season congratulations
App Functionality Failures
This is app is poorly designed, never updated, and frustratingly defective in so many ways. This is a classic example of a dumb rich owner trying to maximize every profit out of his product, without actually giving competition to the effectiveness of the broadcast platform.
Great
Best
Broken
App breaks, casting sucks, audio sounds terrible, and it straight up doesn’t work on Samsung. Easily the worst video streaming app ever made, it’s almost unusable and piracy is a better option
Love my Chicago sports updates
Love my Chicago sports and updates. Wish it was a little cheaper but I can’t live without .
If I could rate in the negative stars I would!
Worst app ever, worst streaming service ever. $20 to watch one team is the biggest ripoff of all time. I am sick and tired of this terrible streaming service never works and I miss what I pay for
CHSN FAQ
- Is CHSN free?
- Yes. The app and its basic features are free, in all 1 country it sells in. Premium features are paid: they start from $19.99 (US), across 5 subscriptions.
- How much does CHSN cost per month?
- All 3 teams - Monthly is $19.99 – 29.99 (US). The annual plan works out cheaper per month: $349.99 a year.
- Does CHSN have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to CHSN?
- Chicago Bears Official App (4.8 from 111,426 reviews), DK Horse Racing & Betting (4.7 from 8,043 reviews) and ESPN Chicago (4.7 from 4,026 reviews).
CHSN download
Last updated 10 days ago.
CHSN sells in 1 country. It was released 1 year and 10 months ago, on 14 Nov 2024. It holds a 4.3 rating from 3,672 reviews.
Supports 32 languages: English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Bangla, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.
How much does CHSN make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.
Revenue by plan
- Monthly 99%
- Annual 1%
Revenue by country
- United States 100%