Through Fox's primary rights to the National Football Conference (NFC), the station has aired most Chicago Bears games since the network acquired partial television rights to the National Football League (NFL) in 1994. On April 22, 2008, the Bears announced a deal with WFLD to become its official broadcast partner. Consequently, in addition to already carrying most regular season and select preseason games through Fox, it began airing preseason games through the team's syndication service as well as other Bears-related programming during the NFL season including the pre-game and post-game shows "Bears Gameday Live" (on Sunday mornings) and "Bears GameNight Live" (which follows "The Final Word" on Sunday evenings). Other team-related programs were added through the deal including WFLD-produced secondary pre-game show "Fox Kickoff Sunday" (which debuted in 2010; not to be confused with "Fox NFL Kickoff", which due to "Bears Gameday Live", airs on WPWR instead) and the feature/interview program "Inside the Bears" (which debuted in 2013). On October 17, 2017, WFLD announced that it had renewed its Bears rights through the 2022 season. Since 2018, WFLD has, through Fox, also aired any Bears games that are part of the "Thursday Night Football" package.