 Beginning this season, the television broadcasts of the Bears preseason games were moved back to NBC Owned-and-operated station WMAQ-TV as part of a five-year broadcast partnership with the station and the team, these will marked the return of the Bears preseason games on the station for the first time since the 1993 season and the return of the NFL games on the station for the first time since the 1997 season after the NBC network lost the rights of the American Football Conference to CBS (locally thru WBBM-TV) beginning with the 1998 season; ending its 9-year relationship with the team and WBBM-TV.the Pre-game show "Bears Gameday Live" and the Post-game show "Bears Gamenight" were premiered also on the station at the start of the regular season.Telemundo Owned-and-operated station WSNS-TV will provide the spanish language broadcasts of the preseason games following the purchase of the station and the network by NBC.