#BASEBALL ON TV TODAY FOX SERIES#

In September 2000, Major League Baseball reached a six-year, $2.5 billion contract with Fox that allowed it to retain rights to Saturday baseball games, and included rights to the All-Star Game, select Division Series games and exclusive coverage of the League Championship Series and World Series. Fox Sports president Ed Goren said, 'We'll use the World Series and League Championship Series to spur our shows'. Fox's primary goal when it first began airing Major League Baseball games was to promote their weak prime time schedule (which at the time included only a handful of hits, such as established series Beverly Hills 90210, The Simpsons and Married. When Fox first began carrying baseball, it used the motto 'Same game, new attitude.' to promote the telecasts, which had previously been used to promote the network's National Football League coverage when it began in 1994. The initial deal also gave Fox the rights to broadcast the 1996, 19 World Series, the 19 All-Star Games, as well as coverage of the League Championship Series (shared with NBC) and five Division Series games each year. Fox's approach has usually been to offer three regionalized telecasts. Fox did, however, continue a format that The Baseball Network started by offering a selection of games based purely on a viewer's region. Unlike the previous television deal, ' The Baseball Network' (a partnership created through the league's joint contract with ABC and NBC that began in the 1994 season), Fox reverted to the format of televising regular season games (approximately 16 weekly telecasts that normally began on Memorial Day weekend ) on Saturday afternoons. Fox paid $575 million for the five-year contract, a fraction less of the amount of money that CBS had paid for the Major League Baseball television rights for the 1990– 1993 seasons. On November 7, 1995, Major League Baseball reached a television deal with Fox and NBC, allowing the former to obtain MLB game rights (assuming ABC's end of the contract). Fox will continue to broadcast the MLB All-Star Game and Field of Dreams Game.īusiness history 1996–2000 For the first time since 2013, Fox will air at least two or three games each Saturday as Fox’s new contract will ensure more games air on the Fox network. In 2022, Fox Sports renewed its television rights for regular season games for both the main Fox broadcast network or FS1. In November 2018, Fox Sports signed a television rights extension with MLB, allowing it to continue to carry MLB telecasts through the 2028 season with national broadcasts on Fox. It has also aired the National League Championship Series (NLCS) and American League Championship Series (ALCS) in alternate years from 1996 to 2000 and since 2007, with the NLCS in even years and the ALCS in odd years, with the network aired both series from 2001 to 2006. The broadcaster has aired the World Series in 1996, 1998, and every edition since 2000, and the All-Star Game in 1997, 1999, and every year since 2001.

MLB on Fox (also known as Fox MLB) is an American presentation of Major League Baseball (MLB) games produced by Fox Sports, the sports division of the Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox), since June 1, 1996.

' MLB on Fox theme music' (1996–2010 2020–present)įox Network Center, Los Angeles, California (studio segments, pregame, and postgame shows)

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