In December 2003, Reinsdorf, Bill Wirtz and the Tribune Company—the owners of the Bulls, White Sox, Blackhawks and Cubs respectively—decided to end their cable television agreement with FSN Chicago. This stripped the network of broadcast rights to all of the professional sports teams in the Chicago area. All three decided to enter into a partnership with Comcast to form a new regional sports network, Comcast SportsNet Chicago, which launched on October 1, 2004. The move led many cable and satellite providers in northeastern Illinois and northwest Indiana to drop the network. Without any local professional sports coverage remaining, FSN Chicago was left with national programming distributed by Fox Sports Net. The events from some minor local and semi-professional teams and Midwestern outdoors programs had limited interest to Chicago area viewers.