The Fox Sports Media Group is the American sports programming division of

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that is responsible for sports broadcasts carried by the

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, as well as operating television networks Fox Sports 1 (FS1) and Fox Sports 2 (FS2), and

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. In addition, the company is responsible for the streaming service Tubi's sports programming, and it owns 61% of the

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with the

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. The division which was formed in 1994 with Fox getting awarded broadcast rights to

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(NFL) games. In subsequent years, Fox has televised the

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(NHL) (

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

–

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...

(MLB) ( 1996–present),

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(

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

–present), the

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(BCS) (

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

–

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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(MLS) (

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

–

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

–present), the U.S. Open golf tournament (

–

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

), the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) (2016–present), WWE programming (2019–2024), the XFL (

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), the

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(USFL) (

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

–2023), the United Football League (UFL) (

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

-present) and the World Baseball Classic (WBC) (

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–present). On December 14, 2017,

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announced plans to acquire then-parent company

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for $52.4 billion, which included key assets such as

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, the regional

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(which were later sold by Disney to Sinclair Broadcast Group), FX Networks, and Fox Sports International (which shut down in 2024). Under the terms of the proposed acquisition, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, and other assets were spun off into the division's current parent company, which is independently owned by Fox Corporation.

History

Establishment

When the Fox Broadcasting Company launched in October 1986, the network's management, having seen how sports programming (in particular,

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events) played a critical role in the growth of the British satellite service BSkyB, determined that sports would be the type of programming that would ascend Fox to a major network status the quickest; as a result, Fox tried to attract a professional football package to the network. In 1987, after ABC initially hedged on renewing its contract with the

(NFL) for the television rights to '' Monday Night Football'', Fox made an offer for the package at the same price that ABC had been paying at the time – about $13 million per game. However, partly due to the fact that Fox had yet to establish itself as a major network, the NFL decided to resume negotiations with ABC, with the two parties eventually agreeing to a new contract, keeping what was the crown jewel of the league's television broadcasts on that network (where it remained until 2006, when ''MNF'' moved to sister network

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as part of a contract that also saw NBC gain the '' Sunday Night Football'' package). Six years later, the league's television contracts for the

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(NFC) package,

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(AFC) package, as well as the Sunday night and Monday night packages were up for renewal. Fox placed an aggressive bid for $1.58 billion to obtain the broadcast rights to the NFC package, which for decades had been held by CBS. On December 17, 1993, the NFL selected Fox's bid and signed a four-year contract with Fox to award it the rights to televise regular season and playoff (as well as select preseason) games from the NFC, beginning with the 1994 season; the initial contract also included the exclusive U.S. television rights to broadcast Super Bowl XXXI in 1997. The deal stripped CBS of football telecasts for the first time since 1955. Fox Sports logo1

Fox lured commentators

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, John Madden, Dick Stockton, Matt Millen,

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and Terry Bradshaw, as well as many behind-the-scenes management and production personnel from

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to staff the network's NFL coverage. The network's studio coverage originated from the Fox Television Center in

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, later moving to the Fox Network Center (located on the

backlot in

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) by 1998. In order to bolster viewership for the NFL telecasts, Fox parent

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decided to strike affiliation deals with broadcasting companies that owned stations affiliated with ABC, NBC and CBS in order to raise the profile of Fox's affiliate body, which at the time mainly consisted of UHF stations that (with some exceptions) had little to no prior history as a major

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, had weaker signals and largely did not carry as much value with advertisers as the Big Three's affiliates. During the late spring and summer of 1994, Fox reached separate agreements with New World Communications (a media company controlled by investor

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, which Fox's station group Fox Television Stations would purchase in July 1996) and SF Broadcasting (a

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between Fox and Savoy Pictures that purchased four stations from Burnham Broadcasting through separate deals in July and August 1994) to switch a total of sixteen stations to Fox between September 1994 and September 1996 as affiliation contracts with those stations' existing network partners expired. The NFL television rights and affiliation deals firmly established Fox as the nation's fourth major network. The network's relationship with the NFL would expand in

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, when it began airing games and acquired partial ownership of

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(although the partial ownership ended in 2000), an agreement which ended in 2006 when all games were moved to NFL Network; the by-then renamed NFL Europa closed down the next year. With a sports division now established, Fox decided to seek broadcast rights agreements with other major sports leagues. On September 9, 1994, Fox was awarded the broadcast television rights to the

(NHL) in a $155 million bid (amounting to $31 million annually); as a result, it became the first broadcast network to be awarded a national television contract to carry NHL games, which longtime NHL Commissioner John Ziegler had long thought to be unattainable (NHL games had not aired regularly on a national broadcast network – outside of select championship and All-Star games, and time buy basis airings of

telecasts on ABC from

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– since NBC's telecast of the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals, as networks were not willing to commit to broadcasting a large number of games due to low viewership). Again, Fox outbid CBS, which wanted to secure the rights as a result of losing the NFL to Fox, for the NHL package. Fox lost the NHL rights to ABC Sports and

MLB, NASCAR, and BCS acquisitions

On November 7, 1995, Fox was awarded partial broadcast rights to

(MLB) games, in a shared deal with NBC (which had carried the league's telecasts since 1947). Through the deal, which Fox paid a fraction of the amount ($115 million) that CBS paid to obtain the rights effective with the 1990 season, Fox would broadcast approximately 16 regular season Saturday afternoon games per season (unlike the previous Baseball Network deal between NBC and ABC) and offered different game broadcasts shown on a regionalized basis (usually up to three per week). As part of a six-year renewal of this deal – valued at $2.5 billion – in September 2000, Fox Sports became the exclusive over-the-air broadcaster of Major League Baseball, giving it the exclusive rights to the

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beginning with the 2000 edition, as well as rights to the

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, select Division Series games and exclusive coverage of the

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. Under a clause in the contract (which has not been exercised as there has not been a labor dispute during the term of rights while Fox Sports has held the contract), if some of the scheduled games were cancelled by a strike or lockout, Fox would still pay Major League Baseball for a full slate of annual games, while the league in turn had to compensate Fox with additional telecasts. Fox Sports Camera Crew at ACS

In 1998, Fox obtained the broadcast rights to the Cotton Bowl Classic college football game. In

, Fox began airing most of the games of the

, including the

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, in a deal worth close to $20 million per game. Due to a separate arrangement between ABC and the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, events in the series that were held at the Rose Bowl stadium – such as the

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and the 2010 BCS Championship – were excluded from the contract. On November 11, 1999, Fox and sister cable channel FX were awarded rights to the NASCAR Winston Cup Series and Busch Series as part of

's first centralized television rights deal, beginning in the 2001 season. The contract covered the first half of the season, with the second half of the season being aired by NBC and TNT. Rights to the Daytona 500 and Pepsi 400 alternated annually, with Fox airing the 500 in odd-numbered years, and the 400 in even-numbered years. Fox's first telecast was the 2001 Daytona 500—an event that would be marred by a final-lap crash that resulted in the

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of Dale Earnhardt. Later that year, Fox acquired the motorsports cable network Speedvision, and rebranded it in February 2002 as Speed Channel. Fox intended to use the network as an outlet for ancillary NASCAR content. In September 2002, Speed Channel bought out

's contract to televise the

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. Fox lost the broadcasting rights to the Bowl Championship Series to

beginning in

. In response, Fox introduced a Saturday "game of the week" on FX in 2011, featuring games from the Pac-12, the Big 12 and Conference USA (the rights to which were later assumed by Fox and Fox Sports 1); Fox also signed deals to carry two new championship games created through conference realignments that occurred in 2010 and 2011: the

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through 2016 (as part of Fox Sports' involvement with the

), and the Pac-12 Championship through 2017 on an alternating basis with ESPN. With the replacement of the BCS with the College Football Playoff, Fox lost the broadcasting rights to the 2015 Cotton Bowl Classic onwards again to ESPN.

Present day

In May 2010, Fox aired the

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of the

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, marking the network's first ever soccer broadcast. In August 2011, Fox Sports announced it had reached a seven-year broadcast agreement with the

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(UFC), ending the

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promotion's relationship with Spike. The deal included the rights to broadcast four live events in prime time or late night annually, as well as other UFC programming that would air on various Fox properties, including the Fox network (which aired its first UFC match in November 2011, the first time that the UFC aired an event on broadcast television), FX and Fuel TV. The contract expired in 2019, with the UFC moving its broadcast rights to

. On October 22, 2011,

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announced that Fox Sports had acquired rights to air its tournaments beginning in 2015, including the

and

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, and the

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and

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. In February 2015, Fox's contract was extended to 2026 (which was ultimately awarded to a joint North American bid led by the United States), in what was reported to be compensation for the rescheduling of the 2022 tournament to late-November/mid-December (which will compete with the regular seasons of the NFL). On August 6, 2013, Fox Sports announced a 12-year deal to broadcast the championships of the

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(USGA), including the U.S. Open, beginning in 2015. In 2016, Fox began to air NHRA

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events—primarily on Fox Sports 1 and 2, and with selected flagship events airing on Fox proper. On May 12, 2014, Fox Sports announced a 7-year deal to broadcast

(MLS). The deal included the rights to air the

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on Fox in even numbered years. On July 24, 2017, the Big Ten Conference announced that it had reached six-year deals with Fox Sports and ESPN to hold rights to its football games beginning in the 2017 season, with Fox's package expanding on its involvement in BTN. As part of the contract, Fox's contract to run BTN was extended through 2032. On January 31, 2018, the NFL announced that Fox had acquired the sub-license for its '' Thursday Night Football'' package under a five-year deal, beginning in the

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. The deal is reportedly worth an average of more than $660 million per year. On May 6, 2019, Fox Sports announced a multi-year broadcast deal with the new incarnation XFL, which went on hiatus midway through its first season, but would return in 2023. In May 2019, Fox Sports partnered with The Stars Group to launch co-branded

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operations, including Fox Bet (which offers real-money sports betting where legal), as well as the free football prediction game ''Fox Sports Super 6''. As part of the partnership, Fox Corporation acquired a 4.99% minority stake in the company for $236 million, with an option to increase its stake to up to 50% within the next 10 years. The partnership made Fox the first major U.S. sports broadcaster to establish a sports betting operation, taking advantage of the repeal of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992. With the company's sale to Flutter Entertainment, Fox would have an option in 2021 to acquire an 18.5% stake in its U.S. subsidiary FanDuel Group. In June 2020, Fox exited its contract with the USGA and sold the remainder to previous rightsholder NBC. In June 2021, it was announced that Fox would be a minority investor in a new iteration of the

(USFL), which would operate as a successor to The Spring League. In November 2021, it was announced that Fox Sports had acquired English-language rights to

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national team matches under a six-year deal from 2022 to 2028, replacing ESPN. This includes the

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beginning in June 2022, tournaments such as UEFA Euro 2024 and 2028, UEFA qualifiers for Euro and the FIFA World Cup, and UEFA-organized friendlies. In January 2022, Fox announced that it would sub-license portions of this package to

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, focusing on the Nations League and selected matches from the European Championships. In January 2022, Fox Sports reached an agreement with the

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for the rights to the

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, the third leg of the horse racing triple crown, through 2030. On February 6, 2024, Fox Sports announced a joint venture with ESPN Inc. and TNT Sports, named Venu Sports, that would include the three organizations' main linear sports channels and associated media rights, beginning in fall 2024. The service was ultimately cancelled. On June 13, 2024, Fox Sports announced a multi-year deal to be the sole broadcaster of the

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and its subsidiary series Indy NXT. On January 16, 2025, Fox Sports announced a multi-year deal with the Saudi PIF-backed LIV Golf, replacing The CW’s sports division as its broadcaster.

Channels

In addition to the broadcast division, Fox Sports Media Group owns other national

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sports channels and a radio network in the United States, which include: * Fox Sports 1 – a national general sports network, which presents a wide variety of sports programming. * Fox Sports 2 – a national general sports network, which serves as a counterpart to FS1. * Fox Sports on Tubi – a national general sports network available exclusively on Fox’s free ad-supported streaming television Tubi. *

– a joint venture with the

, airing various

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involving and programs pertaining to its member schools. *

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– a subscription-based sports network (originating as a spin-off of the now-defunct Fox Soccer), which broadcasts domestic and international

matches. * Fox Sports Racing – a

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s-oriented sports network operating in North American markets outside of the U.S. as a replacement for Speed, which primarily carries motorsports events from FS1 and FS2. * Fox Deportes – a Spanish-language network, which airs Spanish-language coverage of Fox Sports properties. *

– a national sports talk radio network managed by Premiere Networks in partnership with Fox Sports.

2013 cable reorganization

Fox Sports Media Group formally announced the replacement of Speed with Fox Sports 1 on March 5, 2013, with the network eventually launching on the tentative date of August 17, 2013. The network would air content from

, the UFC,

, soccer (including the

) and multiple college sports events (including owning rights to Big East basketball and its annual postseason basketball tournament at

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). The network launched '' Fox Sports Live'' as a competitor to

's '' SportsCenter'', with the former described as a "24/7 news franchise providing around-the-clock coverage through regularly scheduled programs, hourly updates and an information-rich ticker that provides a network agnostic sports event television schedule." Notable personalities on FS1 include Regis Philbin, Mike Tyson,

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, Erin Andrews, as well as many others. The international feed of Speed would eventually be replaced with Fox Sports Racing on February 20, 2015. On August 17, 2013, the extreme sports-focused Fuel TV was rebranded as Fox Sports 2, a companion network serving primarily as an overflow channel for Fox Sports 1, along with providing supplementary sports coverage. On September 2, 2013, Fox Soccer was replaced by FXX, an entertainment-based sister network to FX with a focus on comedy programming. With the concurrent shutdown and replacement of the network, Fox Soccer's sports programming was shifted over to Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2. As a result, outside of very rare sports conflicts on both Fox Sports networks, FX no longer carries any sports programming. Fox Soccer's companion premium service,

, continues to exist and supplements soccer coverage on Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2.

Former affiliates

* Fox College Sports – a slate of three cable channels (

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, Central and

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) produced by regional Fox Sports Networks, which airs additional college sports content from across the country.

Regional sports networks

Prior to its acquisition by the Sinclair Broadcast Group,

operated as a slate of regional sports networks with broadcasting agreements that follow league market distribution rules. For example, cable and satellite subscribers in

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receive

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games on Fox Sports Midwest, while viewers in

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games on Fox Sports Wisconsin. The regionalized coverage frequently restricts broadcasts of live sporting events outside of a team's home market. In addition to game coverage, the regional networks also air regionally-based news, analysis, magazine, and documentary programming, as well as some common national programming. In some markets, the regional Fox Sports network operates one or multiple overflow feeds that carry additional programs that cannot be carried on the main feed due to event conflicts. On March 31, 2021, the Fox Sports Networks rebranded as Bally Sports. * Fox Sports Arizona * Fox Sports Detroit ** Fox Sports Detroit Plus * Fox Sports Florida * Fox Sports Sun * Fox Sports Indiana * Fox Sports Kansas City * Fox Sports Midwest * Fox Sports New Orleans * Fox Sports North * Fox Sports Ohio * SportsTime Ohio * Fox Sports Oklahoma * Fox Sports San Diego * Fox Sports South * Fox Sports Tennessee * Fox Sports Carolinas * Fox Sports Southeast *

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* Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket * Fox Sports Wisconsin * Fox Sports Northwest * Fox Sports Pittsburgh * Fox Sports Rocky Mountain * Fox Sports Utah * Fox Sports New York * YES Network

International

* Fox Sports International – operated as an international sports programming and production entity that distributed sports programming to various countries in

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and

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Technical evolution

High-definition coverage

For Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002, Fox Sports produced its first telecast in a 16:9, 480p enhanced-definition format marketed as "Fox Widescreen"; while promoted as having better quality than standard definition, and being the first U.S. sporting event produced completely in a widescreen format, it was not true high definition, but still matched the

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of HDTV sets. Fox Sports began producing selected events in

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high definition, starting on July 3, 2004, with the Pepsi 400, select NFL games, the 2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and that year's postseason. During the following years, Fox would produce more sports telecasts in HD, but still fell back on using 480p widescreen for events not televised in HD. As of late July 2010, all sports programming broadcast by Fox-owned networks began transitioning to a format optimized for 16:9 widescreen displays, with graphics framed within a

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safe area rather than the 4:3 safe area, intended to be shown in a letterboxed format on standard definition feeds.

Virtual reality

From 2016 until selling its virtual reality division FoxNext to Disney in 2019, Fox Sports produced a limited number of game telecasts in 360-degree

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, mostly college football. A

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4K coverage

In 2017, Fox Sports began to produce selected telecasts in 4K

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, beginning with selected NASCAR and college basketball events, and for the 2017 season, a college football game per-week. They are primarily available via

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and other supported providers. Fox began televising its ''Thursday Night Football'' games in

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upconverted to 4K with HLG HDR on September 26, 2019.

Technological enhancements

* FoxBox (sports) * FoxTrax * ''MLB on Fox'' – Innovations

Graphics, scoring bugs, and theme music

The graphics and scoring bugs used by Fox Sports have won awards and changed how sports broadcasts are presented on United States television. The opening notes of the theme used on the Fox network's NFL broadcasts are incorporated in iterations of other themes used on Fox Sports broadcasts. Originally, when the scoring bugs are upgraded, the previous versions were retained for one of the division's other properties for about a year; however, this practice ended in 2009. The first score bug was used for Fox's NFL coverage, and was then expanded to the network's baseball and hockey broadcasts. One segment of the Scott Schreer-composed theme, coincidentally or otherwise, echoes the notes for the "giddyup, giddyup, giddyup, let's go" line from the Leroy Anderson-composed song, '' Sleigh Ride''. Although, the rhythm of that segment of both tunes is similar to that of the first four bars of both the first and second figures of the Johann Strauss Sr.-composed '' Radetzky March'', which itself is similar to that of the finale of

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to his opera '' William Tell''. During sports broadcasts aired during the

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holiday season, Fox Sports broadcasts will sometimes acknowledge this fact by seguéing from the one tune into the other during the commercial break outcue. Beginning in October 2010, the ''NFL on FOX'' theme became uniform for all Fox Sports properties beginning with the National League Championship Series that year and NASCAR races with the 2011 Budweiser Shootout. However, NASCAR and MLB broadcasts reinstated their own theme music in 2016 and 2020, respectively, and the ''CBB on FOX'' telecasts were switched over to " Roundball Rock", which was formerly used by the '' NBA on NBC'', in 2019. '' Fox College Football'' uses a marching band rendition of the NFL theme, and ''USFL on FOX'', which debuted in 2022, uses the standard version.

2001–2003

By 2001, the score bug was restructured as a banner positioned at the top of the screen, and was simpler than the version used today. It was first utilized that year on Fox's NASCAR coverage with the introduction of a new updated graphics package that was based on the 1998 design; the banner and updated graphics were then utilized on the network's Major League Baseball and NFL telecasts. It featured a translucent black rectangle, a baseball diamond graphic for baseball broadcasts on the far left, the team abbreviations in white with their scores in yellow boxes (the boxes were white for NFL broadcasts until Super Bowl XXXVI, when the coloring was changed to yellow), then the quarter or inning, time or number of outs, pitch count/speed (used for baseball broadcasts), and the logo of the Fox Sports event property whose game is being telecast (such as ''NFL on Fox'' or ''MLB on Fox'') on the far right.

2003–2006

Beginning with the 2003 NFL season, the banner was upgraded as part of a new graphics package. At first, the team abbreviations were replaced with team logos, and the scores were rendered in white within black parallelograms. Unlike the previous version, the FoxBox would alternate between a black rectangle and several black parallelograms; however, it reverted to being a black rectangle beginning with the 2004 NFL season, and the team logos would later be replaced with abbreviations in the respective teams' primary colors (the colorized team abbreviations would first be utilized on postseason baseball broadcasts that year). Whenever a team scores a point or a run, the team's score and logo would flash a few times. During baseball broadcasts, the entire banner would flash with the words "

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" and the team's name in the team's color zooming in to the center from both left and right. In late 2005, a new white banner resembling a chrome finish was introduced, and the team abbreviations became rendered in white letters in the team's main color; the new banner debuted on Fox's coverage of the 2005 World Series, and would then be expanded to NFL and NASCAR broadcasts. Baseball broadcasts continued to use the 2001 scoring banners and graphics in 2004 until the network's coverage of that year's postseason. During

telecasts from 2007 to 2011, this graphics package was briefly used to weather delay updates and also used for merchandise for the Digger cam. This graphics package was also used during Prelude to the Dream at Eldora from 2005 to 2007.

2006–2010

Beginning with the 2006 NFL season, the scoring banner was upgraded again. This time, real-time scores from around the league were included as a permanent fixture on the extreme right side of the bar, while the banner's coloring changed to the colors of the team currently in possession of the ball (this coloring scheme was seen only on football broadcasts). The banner no longer flashed after the scoring of runs, touchdowns or field goals. During baseball broadcasts, the diamond graphic appeared in middle-justification and was slimmed down to just the three main bases, unlike other implements which included home plate. This banner, after first being used for NFL broadcasts in 2006, was eventually expanded to Bowl Championship Series, NASCAR and MLB; baseball telecasts, however, continued to use the late-2005 scoring banners and graphics in 2007. In 2008, Fox NASCAR introduced a new camera embedded between turns one and two on the various tracks; it was soon known as "Digger Cam", unveiled alongside a

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mascot named Digger. In 2009, this graphics package was dropped entirely for Fox's baseball telecasts and replaced with the then-current Fox Sports Net graphics, which had debuted on baseball telecasts across FSN's affiliates that season. These were later repositioned for widescreen in July 2010, when Fox Sports began presenting all of its high definition programming content in the 16:9

, with letterboxing on standard definition feeds relayed to pay television providers.

2010–2014

At the beginning of the 2010 NFL pre-season, Fox debuted a new graphics package for its football coverage – an upgraded version of the 2006 design with a "much more colorful 3D look." The new graphics also marked a migration to

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hardware for CG, providing producers with a more streamlined workflow for graphics. The new design would be rolled out for Fox's racing coverage and the Speed network in 2011, at the start of the 2011 MLB season (where both Fox and the FSN networks would begin using it as well, excluding SportSouth games simulcast by WPCH-TV and Root Sports – which used the previous FSN appearance), and on Fox Soccer.

2014–2017

A new graphics package for Fox Sports broadcasts was introduced for Fox's

coverage leading up to the 2014 Daytona 500. Fox Sports Midwest producer Max Leinwand described the look as being "cleaner" than the previous design. The design has also been used to introduce new design conventions for some of Fox's graphics; for NASCAR, the running order ticker was replaced by a leaderboard-style display that was initially displayed as a vertical sidebar. MLB uses a score bug at the bottom-right (initially at the bottom-left) of the screen instead of the top-left, while NFL utilized a top-left score bug with a vertical layout.

2017–2020

A new graphics package was launched on August 27, 2017, for Fox's first NFL preseason broadcast, featuring a dark flat design scheme, and shifting football to a horizontal scoreboard along the bottom of the screen (in line with all other NFL broadcasters). Upon its debut, the new football scoreboard was widely panned by viewers for its basic appearance and small text size. This package was also adopted by

(which had previously used its own separate graphics packages), and was deployed for MLB coverage on Fox and FS1 starting with the 2017 MLB postseason. Fox continues to use Vizrt software, and began to increasingly utilize

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s to run its on-air graphics as opposed to full systems (maintained as backups). The introduction of the package to NASCAR for the 2018 season saw Fox once again adopt a vertical leaderboard for the running order, initially within an opaque sidebar before switching to a translucent design for the Daytona 500.

2020–present

In a move to give its individual properties distinct brands, Fox began to phase the 2017 graphics out in 2020, in favor of bespoke graphics packages for each of its major properties (the prior flat graphics continue to be used for sports properties that do not have dedicated graphics). The first of these packages for football debuted at Super Bowl LIV in February 2020, which featured a theme based on

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s, a centered, pod-like scoreboard, and stylized illustrations of key players. It was adopted full-time by subsequent football telecasts, including the subsequent XFL and 2020 NFL and college football seasons. New graphics were adopted by further properties beginning in 2021, including Major League Baseball (beginning with the 2021 postseason), college basketball (beginning with the 2021–22 season), and NASCAR (beginning with the 2022 season, similarly incorporating stylized illustrations similarly to the NFL graphics). In 2023, Fox adopted a "modernized" update to the NFL graphics at Super Bowl LVII, college football diverged with a new theme, and NHRA coverage debuted new graphics during the U.S. Nationals (via the NHRA's partnership with SMT). A new graphics package for collegiate Olympic sports by Drive Studios also debuted in 2024; it was developed primarily for Big Ten Network, and replaces the 2017 graphics on BTN properties outside of basketball and football (which use the same graphics as Fox broadcasts).

Public service

In February 2008, Fox Sports announced a new charitable foundation called Fox Sports Supports, which provides grants and marketing support for health-related causes. Each organization is tied to a specific events package seen on Fox Sports. The following are the charities supported during the history of the program:

2008–2009 cycle (began with 2008 Daytona 500)

* '' NASCAR on Fox'':

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* ''

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'': Make-A-Wish Foundation * ''

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'': Children's Health Fund * '' Fox College Football'': Alzheimer's Association

2009–2010 cycle (began with 2009 Daytona 500)

* ''NASCAR on Fox'': Susan G. Komen for the Cure * ''MLB on Fox'': The Michael J. Fox Foundation * ''NFL on Fox'':

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* ''Fox College Football'': Malaria No More

Gambling

In May 2019, amid the state-by-state legalization of

in the United States following the repeal of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, Fox Corporation entered into a joint venture with The Stars Group to develop gaming products under the brand Fox Bet. They included free-to-play games such as ''Fox Bet Super 6'', and a real-money mobile

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operating in several states where they are legal. The services and games were co-promoted on Fox Sports properties, including the Fox Sports 1 studio program ''Fox Bet Live'' (formerly ''Lock it In''). As part of the agreement, Fox Corporation acquired a 4.99% stake in The Stars Group, which was later acquired by Flutter Entertainment. Fox holds a 2.6% minority stake in Flutter, and was given an option to acquire up to 18.5% of its U.S. division FanDuel in 2021. On July 30, 2023, it was announced that Fox Corporation and Flutter would close down their Fox Bet platform in a phased closure, starting the next day and ending on August 31. As part of the deal, Fox Corporation retained future use of the Fox Bet brand and relaunched ''Fox Bet Super 6'' later in the year under the name ''Fox Super 6''; this version was exclusive to the Fox Sports website and mobile app. Although not exactly confirmed, it was likely that Fox Corporation didn't exercise a right to acquire up to 50% of The Stars Group on the condition it was licensed, allowing themselves and Flutter to shut down Fox Bet in August 2023.

Programming issues

Although the amount of sports content on the network has gradually expanded since Fox Sports was founded in 1994 (particularly since 2013), Fox's sports schedule on weekend afternoons has remained very inconsistent to this day as the majority of its sports contracts are with professional leagues and collegiate conferences associated with more widely known sporting events, with very limited supplementary coverage of

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, extreme or winter sports (unlike NBC or CBS) that can be aired during the daytime even when major events are not broadcast – leaving absences in daytime sports coverage on either a Saturday, a Sunday or both on certain weeks. Syndicated programming (either in the form of

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s, series or both) and/or

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s scheduled by the network's

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s and affiliates, as well as occasional Fox Sports-produced specials and Fox-supplied preview specials for upcoming primetime shows fill Fox stations' weekend afternoon schedules on days with limited to no sports programming. Some of the network's sports telecasts (most frequently, college football and Sunday afternoon NFL games, and the World Series) delay or outright pre-empt regularly scheduled local evening newscasts on Fox stations due to typical overruns past a set time block or pre-determined later start times; a few Fox affiliates that maintain news departments (such as WBRC in

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and WVUE-DT in

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) have opted not to air or have cancelled early evening newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays due to frequent sports preemptions in that daypart, while others (such as WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri) instead reschedule their weekend early evening news programs to an earlier timeslot if possible when Fox is scheduled to air an evening game or race. Conversely, some Fox Sports programming (though never major sports, NASCAR, or college football) is delayed for later airing for several reasons. WSVN in Miami traditionally delays Fox Sports' Sunday lower-tier racing programming to late night in order to maintain their revenue on Sunday afternoons for paid programming, while several stations often disregarded the pregame shows for the

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to reduce schedule disruption. In November 2018, WITI in

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opted to move the final of that year's Las Vegas Invitational

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tournament on that year's Black Friday to their secondary Antenna TV subchannel in order to avert disruption to their news schedule before a primetime airing of that year's Apple Cup football game. Fox's '' NFL Kickoff'', preceding ''Fox NFL Sunday'', is often aired on a secondary subchannel in several markets due to both official team programming and E/I programming burdens needing to be satisfied by Fox affiliates. As is done with CBS, Fox offers a flex schedule for its NFL and Major League Baseball telecasts, featuring a selection of up to four games that vary on a regional basis, allowing either one or (often) two consecutive telecasts to air on a given day depending on the Fox station's designated market.

Programs throughout the years

Current broadcast rights

; ''

'' (

–present) * Pre-game shows: ''

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'' (1994–present) and '' Fox NFL Kickoff'' (Fox,

–present; FS1,

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–2015) * Post-game show: ''The OT'' ( 2006–present) *

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: XXXI, XXXIII, XXXVI, XXXIX, XLII, XLV, XLVIII, LI, LIV, LVII, LIX, LXIII, and LXVII ; ''

'' ( 1996–present) *

: , , –present (exclusive through 2028) *

: 1997, 1999, 2001–present * World Baseball Classic: 2023–present, triennial ; '' Fox College Football'' (1998–present) * '' Big Noon Kickoff'' (2019–present) * ''Big Noon Saturday'' (2019–present) * Big 12 (2012–present) * Big Ten (2017–present) * Mountain West (2020–present) * Big Ten Football Championship Game (2011–2023 and odd numbered years from 2025 to 2029 (shared with NBC and CBS) * Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game (2020–present) * Holiday Bowl (

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–2019, 2022–present) ; '' Fox College Hoops'' (2013–present) * Big East men's and women's basketball (2013–present) * Big 12 men's and women's basketball (2023–present) * Big Ten men's and women's basketball (2017–present) * Mountain West men's and women's basketball (2020–present) *

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(2014–present) ; Motorsport ; '' NASCAR on Fox'' (

–present) * Daytona 500: Odd numbered years from

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, every year since

(exclusive through 2031) ; IndyCar Series on Fox (2025–present) * Indianapolis 500 (2025–present) ; Other motorsport events * NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series (

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

–present) *

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(2001–present) * American Flat Track (2022–present) *

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(2014–2015; 2025–present) ; '' Fox Soccer'' *

(quadrennial since

) *

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(2020–present) *

(

–

–present) *

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(2018–present) - Tigres home games only *

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–present) *

(shared with

) **

(

–2028) **

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(

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(2023–present) ; Horse Racing *'' Thoroughbred Racing on Fox Sports'' (1997–1999, 2014–present) **''America's Day at the Races'' (2019–present) **

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(2019–present) ** Saudi Cup (2020–present) ** Jim Dandy Stakes (2022–present) **

(2023–present) ** Fourstardave Handicap (2023–present) ; Other *

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(

–present) * Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (2017–present) * Professional Bowlers Association (2019–present) * Bassmaster Elite Series/ Bassmaster Classic (2021–present) * Professional Pickleball Association (2021–present) * United Football League (2024–present) *

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(2024–present) * The American Rodeo (2024–present) * LIV Golf (2025–present)

Former broadcast rights

* '' NHL on Fox'' (

–

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: Rounds 1–3 (

; simulcast with NFL Network) * '' Fox UFC'' (2011–2018) * USGA Championships (2015–2019) *

Big3 Big3 (stylized BIG3) is a 3x3 basketball, 3-on-3 basketball league founded by the hip-hop musician and actor Ice Cube and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz. The league consists of 12 teams whose rosters include both former National Basketb ...

(2017–2018) * Davis Cup (

) * XFL (2020) * '' Premier Boxing Champions'' (2015–2022) *

/ The Spring League (2021–2023, ownership stake since 2022) *

Major League Rugby Major League Rugby (MLR) is a professional rugby union competition in the United States. The league comprises 11 teams. While operating outside of the governance and oversight of the national governing body, the league is officially sanctioned ...

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NASCAR Xfinity Series The NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) is a stock car racing series organized by NASCAR. It is promoted as NASCAR's second-tier circuit to the organization's top level NASCAR Cup Series, Cup Series. NXS events are frequently held as a Undercard, support ...

(2001–2006, 2015-2024) ; Soccer *

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, 2002,

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WWE SmackDown ''WWE SmackDown'', also known as ''Friday Night SmackDown'' or simply ''SmackDown'', is an American professional wrestling television program produced by WWE. It airs Live television, live every Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on USA Netwo ...

'' (2019–2024)

Notable personalities

Current

Play-by-play

* ''

'' – Kevin Burkhardt, Joe Davis, Adam Amin, Kenny Albert, Kevin Kugler, Chris Myers, Brandon Gaudin, Jason Benetti, Tim Brando * ''

'' – Joe Davis, Adam Amin, Jason Benetti, Kenny Albert, Aaron Goldsmith, Brandon Gaudin, Kevin Kugler, Connor Onion * '' IndyCar Series on Fox–'' Will Buxton * '' NASCAR on Fox'' – Mike Joy, Jamie Little * '' Fox College Football'' – Gus Johnson, Jason Benetti, Tim Brando, Connor Onion, Eric Collins, Trent Rush, Dan Hellie, Chris Myers * '' Fox College Hoops'' – Gus Johnson, Jason Benetti, Tim Brando, Kevin Kugler, Scott Graham, Eric Collins, Brian Anderson, Joe Davis, Aaron Goldsmith, Brandon Gaudin, Adam Amin, Steve Physioc, Jeff Levering, Kevin Burkhardt, Lisa Byington, Dave Sims, Kevin Fitzgerald, Wayne Randazzo, Benjamin Bernard, Matt Schumacker, Cindy Brunson, Guy Haberman, Greg Heister, Mark Clark, Pat O'Keefe, John Fanta, J.B Long, Chris Vosters, Jenny Cavnar, Connor Onion, Jason Ross Jr. Joe Rawson, Lane Grindle, Trent Rush, Derek Clark, John Ramey, David Gascon, Jacob Tobey, Darron Sutton, Matt Neverett, Sloane Martin, Greg Mescall, Ari Wolfe, Dan Hellie, Tim Neverett, Cory Provus, Jordan Kent, Rich Waltz, Chris Myers, Rich Cellini, Kenny Albert, AJ Kanell, Jack Kizer, Emmanuel Berbari, Jason Horowitz, Noah Reed, Nick Koop, Paul Dottino, Dan Kolko, Bob Brainerd * Fox Soccer – John Strong, JP Dellacamera, Glenn Davis, Mark Followill, Keith Costigan, Adrian Garcia-Marquez, Jorge Perez-Navarro, Jake Zivin, Jenn Hildreth,

Derek Rae Derek Rae (born 9 April 1967) is a Scottish association football commentator and presenter. He currently works for ESPN and ABC in the United States for the English-language coverages of Bundesliga, DFB Pokal, and La Liga and Deutsche Fußball ...

, Lisa Byington, Kate Scott, Nate Bukaty, Callum Williams, Ian Darke, Jacqui Oatley, Tyler Terens, Joe Malfa * ''Fox NHRA'' – Brian Lohnes *'' PBA on Fox'' – Rob Stone, Dave Ryan *'' UFL'' – Curt Menefee, Kevin Kugler, Jason Benetti, Adam Amin

Analysts

* ''

'' – Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long,

, Rob Gronkowski, Jay Glazer, Charles Woodson, Julian Edelman, Tom Brady, Greg Olsen, Mark Sanchez, Jonathan Vilma, Daryl Johnston, Mark Schlereth, Matt Millen, Mike Pereira (rules analyst), Dean Blandino (rules analyst) * ''MLB on Fox'' – John Smoltz, Tom Verducci, A. J. Pierzynski, Adam Wainwright, Eric Karros, Dontrelle Willis,

Alex Rodriguez Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975), nicknamed "A-Rod", is an American former professional baseball shortstop, third baseman and designated hitter and current businessman. Rodriguez played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (ML ...

, David Ortiz, Nick Swisher, Derek Jeter * '' IndyCar Series on Fox –'' James Hinchcliffe, Townsend Bell * ''NASCAR on Fox'' – Clint Bowyer, Larry McReynolds,

Michael Waltrip Michael Curtis Waltrip (born April 30, 1963) is an American former professional stock car racing driver, racing commentator, racing team owner, amateur ballroom dancing competitor and published author. He is the younger brother of three-time NASC ...

, Todd Bodine, Jamie McMurray, Phil Parsons, Kevin Harvick,

Trevor Bayne Trevor Mitchell Bayne (born February 19, 1991) is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver, Dirt track racing, dirt racing driver, team owner, and businessman. He is currently a pit reporter for NASCAR on Prime Video, ''NASCAR ...

* ''Fox College Football'' – Joel Klatt, Brock Huard, Devin Gardner, Mark Helfrich, Spencer Tillman, Robert Smith, Petros Papadakis, Brady Quinn, Matt Leinart, Mark Ingram II,

Urban Meyer Urban Frank Meyer III (born July 10, 1964) is an American Sports commentator, sportscaster and former college football coach. He spent most of his coaching career at the collegiate level, having served as the head coach of the Bowling Green F ...

, Emmanuel Acho, Chris Petersen, Mike Pereira (rules analyst), Dean Blandino (rules analyst) * '' Fox College Hoops'' – Jim Jackson, Tarik Turner, Bill Raftery, Stephen Bardo, Brian Finneran,

Isiah Thomas Isiah Lord Thomas III ( ; born April 30, 1961), also known as "Zeke", is an American former professional basketball player who is head coach of the Saginaw Soul of the Basketball Super League, and also an analyst for NBA TV and Fox Sports. H ...

, Len Elmore, Dino Gaudio, Robbie Hummel, Donny Marshall, Nick Bahe, Doug Gottlieb, Sarah Kustok, Dickey Simpkins, Casey Jacobsen, Vin Parise, Jim Spanarkel, Stephen Howard, Danny Manning, Jess Settles, Bill Herenda, Richie Schueler, Freddie Schulz, Kim Adams, Austin Johnson, Megan McKeown, Matt Muehlebach, Mike DeCourcy, KJ Smith, Lamar Hurd, Dave Miller, LaVall Jordan, Terrence Oglesby, LaPhonso Ellis, Dan Dickau, Brian Butch, Joe Cravens, Devin Harris, John Giannini, Kris Jenkins, Jordan Taylor, Trent Meacham, LaChina Robinson, Darren Collison, Christy Winters-Scott, Debbie Antonelli,

Nik Stauskas Nikolas Tomas Stauskas (born October 7, 1993) is a Canadian former professional basketball player who played six seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A shooting guard, Stauskas played two seasons of college basketball for the Mi ...

, Kevin O'Neill, Don MacLean, Ernie Kent,

Ben Braun Benjamin Abraham Braun (born November 25, 1953) is an American former men's college basketball coach and college basketball analyst. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Siena Heights University (1977–1985), Eastern Michigan Unive ...

, Sean Elliott, Mary Murphy, Ashley Battle, Tammy Blackburn,

Phil Martelli Philip Martelli Sr. (born August 31, 1954) is an American college basketball coach, who was recently the associate head coach for the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball, Michigan Wolverines. As the former head coach of the Saint Joseph's Hawk ...

, Wesley Matthews, Elise Woodward, Rapheal Davis, Angela Taylor * ''Fox Soccer'' – Stuart Holden, Tony Meola, Aly Wagner, Cobi Jones, Landon Donovan, Warren Barton, Mariano Trujillo, Alexi Lalas, Maurice Edu, Rodney Wallace, Heather O'Reilly, Danielle Slaton, Lori Lindsey, Melissa Ortiz, Leslie Osborne, Devon Kerr, Joe Machnik (rules analyst), Mark Clattenburg (rules analyst) *''Fox NHRA'' – Tony Pedregon *'' PBA on Fox'' –

Randy Pedersen Randy Pedersen (born May 28, 1962) is an American sportscaster and former professional Bowler (ten-pin), bowler as a member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). He is currently a color analyst for Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports ...

*'' UFL'' – Joel Klatt, Brock Huard, Devin Gardner, Jake Butt, Robert Smith, Brock Vereen, Mark Sanchez

Reporters

* ''

'' – Erin Andrews, Tom Rinaldi, Pam Oliver, Kristina Pink, Megan Olivi, Laura Okmin, Jen Hale, Sarah Kustok * ''MLB on Fox'' – Ken Rosenthal, Jon Morosi, Tom Verducci, Tom Rinaldi * ''NASCAR on Fox'' – Jamie Little, Regan Smith, Jamie Howe, Josh Sims, Amanda Busick, Kaitlyn Vincie, Todd Bodine * '' IndyCar Series on Fox –'' Jack Harvey, Georgia Henneberry, Kevin Lee, Jamie Little * '' Fox College Football'' – Jenny Taft, Allison Williams, Josh Sims, Tom Rinaldi * ''Fox College Hoops'' – Allison Williams * '' Fox Soccer'' – Jenny Taft, Rodolfo Landeros, Alex Curry *''Fox NHRA'' – Bruno Massel, Jamie Howe, Amanda Busick *'' PBA on Fox'' – Kimberly Pressler

Studio hosts

* ''

'' – Curt Menefee, Charissa Thompson * ''MLB on Fox'' – Kevin Burkhardt, Chris Myers, Jenny Taft, Mike Hill * ''NASCAR on Fox'' – Chris Myers, Kaitlyn Vincie * '' Big Noon Kickoff'' – Rob Stone, Mike Hill * ''Fox College Hoops'' – Rob Stone, Kevin Burkhardt, Mike Hill, Jenny Taft * '' Fox Soccer'' – Rob Stone, Jenny Taft, Rodolfo Landeros * ''Fox PBC'' – Chris Myers, Kenny Albert * '' IndyCar Series on Fox'' – Chris Myers

Former

Play-by-play

* ''NFL on Fox'' – Joe Buck,

, Kevin Harlan, Mike Breen, Steve Buckhantz, Eric Clemons, Paul Kennedy, Steve Grad, Tim Ryan, Ray Bentley, Josh Lewin, Scott Graham, Doug Bell, Drew Goodman, Nick Halling, Dan Miller, Ron Pitts, Dave Pasch, Kevin Slaten, Spero Dedes, Matt Vasgersian, Craig Shemon, Carter Blackburn, Brad Sham, Dan McLaughlin, Matt Devlin, Steve Byrnes, Chris Rose, Craig Bolerjack, Tom McCarthy, Mike Goldberg,

Matt Smith Matthew Robert Smith (born 28 October 1982) is an English actor. He is known for playing the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' (2010–2013), Prince Philip in Netflix's historical series ''The Crown ( ...

, Thom Brennaman, Sam Rosen, Dick Stockton, Gus Johnson, Alex Faust ** '' Thursday Night Football'' – Joe Buck, Kevin Burkhardt, Adam Amin, Joe Davis, Curt Menefee * '' NHL on Fox'' – Mike Emrick, Pat Foley, Kenny Albert, Sam Rosen, Dave Strader, Jiggs McDonald, Dick Stockton * ''MLB on Fox'' – Joe Buck, Chip Caray, Thom Brennaman, Dick Stockton, Aaron Goldsmith * ''NASCAR on Fox'' – Rick Allen, Vince Welch, Adam Alexander * ''Fox College Football'' – Craig Bolerjack, Brian Custer, Aaron Goldsmith, Adam Alexander * ''Fox College Hoops'' – Dick Stockton, Thom Brennaman, Justin Kutcher, Brian Custer, Vince Welch, Adam Alexander * ''Fox Soccer'' – Max Bretos, Steve Cangialosi, Ross Dyer, Gus Johnson, Mark Rogondino, Dave Denholm * '' XFL'' – Curt Menefee, Kevin Burkhardt * '' USFL'' - Curt Menefee, Kevin Kugler * '' Fox USGA'' – Joe Buck, Justin Kutcher, Shane Bacon * ''

WWE Smackdown ''WWE SmackDown'', also known as ''Friday Night SmackDown'' or simply ''SmackDown'', is an American professional wrestling television program produced by WWE. It airs Live television, live every Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on USA Netwo ...

'' - Michael Cole, Kevin Patrick, Corey Graves

Analysts

* ''NFL on Fox'' – Troy Aikman, Cris Collinsworth, John Madden, Bill Maas, Chad Pennington, Brian Billick, Tim Ryan (American football, born 1967), Tim Ryan, John Lynch (American football), John Lynch, Donovan McNabb, Charles Davis (defensive back), Charles Davis, Chris Spielman, Tony Gonzalez, Aqib Talib, Sean Payton, Michael Vick, Jimmy Johnson (American football coach), Jimmy Johnson, Peter Schrager ** '' Thursday Night Football'' – Troy Aikman, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long,

, Jimmy Johnson (American football coach), Jimmy Johnson, Jay Glazer, Mike Pereira * ''NHL on Fox'' – John Davidson (ice hockey), John Davidson, Joe Micheletti * ''MLB on Fox'' – Bob Brenly, Steve Lyons (baseball), Steve Lyons, Tim McCarver, Gabe Kapler, Pete Rose, Harold Reynolds, Frank Thomas * ''NASCAR On Fox'' – Andy Petree, Darrell Waltrip, Jeff Hammond (NASCAR), Jeff Hammond, Jeff Gordon * ''Fox College Football'' – Charles Davis, Ryan Nece, Eddie George, Eric Crouch, Darius Walker, Bob Stoops, Reggie Bush * ''Fox Soccer'' – Brian McBride, Christopher Sullivan (soccer, born 1965), Christopher Sullivan, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Jovan Kirovski, Eric Wynalda, Brian Dunseth, Mario Melchiot, Brad Friedel, Grant Wahl * '' Fox USGA'' – Greg Norman, Paul Azinger * ''XFL (2020), Fox XFL'' – Joel Klatt, Greg Olsen * ''

'' - Corey Graves, Pat McAfee, John Layfield, JBL, Kevin Owens, Michael Cole, Road Dogg, Wade Barrett, Brad Nessler (select segment)

Reporters

* ''NFL on Fox'' – Ron Pitts, Tony Siragusa, D. J. Johnson (cornerback, born 1966), D. J. Johnson, Matt Millen ** '' Thursday Night Football'' – Erin Andrews, Kristina Pink * ''MLB on Fox'' – Erin Andrews, Chris Myers * ''NASCAR on Fox'' – Krista Voda, Dick Berggren, Jeanne Zelasko, Steve Byrnes, Chris Neville, Hermie Sadler, Alan Cavanna, Matt Yocum, Vince Welch * ''Fox College Football'' – Molly McGrath, Shannon Spake * ''Fox Soccer'' – Julie Stewart-Binks * ''XFL (2020), Fox XFL'' – Brock Huard, Jenny Taft, Cameron Jordan * ''Fox USGA'' – Chris Myers * ''

'' - Kayla Braxton, Byron Saxton, Cathy Kelley

Studio hosts

* ''NFL on Fox'' –

** ''Thursday Night Football, Fox NFL Thursday'' – Curt Menefee,

* ''First Things First'' – Nick Wright (sports personality), Nick Wright * ''NHL on Fox'' – James Brown, Suzy Kolber * ''MLB on Fox'' – Jeanne Zelasko, Chris Rose, Amber Theoharis * ''NASCAR on Fox'' – Danielle Trotta, John Roberts, Shannon Spake, Adam Alexander * ''Fox Soccer'' – Brendan Dunlop, Carlos Machado, Jeremy St. Louis, Kyle Martino, Lara Baldesarra, Lionel Bienvenu, Michelle Lissel, Mitch Peacock, Terri Leigh, Todd Grisham, Julie Stewart-Binks, Ian Joy, Kate Abdo, Sara Walsh * '' Fox Sports Live'' – Jay Onrait, Dan O'Toole, Charissa Thompson, Don Bell * '' Fox UFC'' – Jay Glazer, Karyn Bryant * ''Fox USGA'' – Lindsay Czarniak * ''Rat Race (film), Rat Race'' – Chris Myers, Kevin Frazier

Presidents

* David Hill (producer), David Hill (1993–2000) * Ed Goren (2000–2010) * Eric Shanks (2010–present)

Other media

The "Fox Sports" name has been used in other sports media assets. * Foxsports.com, a web site operated by Fox Sports Digital Media, provides sports news online. * The ''Fox Sports College Hoops '99'' basketball video game is published by their Fox Interactive division. * Outside of the U.S., Fox Sports Australia is owned and operated by Foxtel, which is a joint venture between News Corp Australia (owned by the Murdoch family) and Australian telecommunications company Telstra and Fox Sports Japan, which was also joint owned by the Murdoch family and SoftBank Group that operated Fox Sports and Entertainment in Japan and Fox Sports (Argentina), Fox Sports Argentina is also owned and operated by Mediapro.

Notes and references

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fox Sports (United States) Fox Sports, American companies established in 1994 Mass media companies established in 1994 Sports television in the United States 1994 establishments in California Companies based in Los Angeles Cable network groups in the United States

History

Establishment

MLB, NASCAR, and BCS acquisitions

Present day

Channels

2013 cable reorganization

Former affiliates

Regional sports networks

International

Technical evolution

High-definition coverage

Virtual reality

4K coverage

Technological enhancements

Graphics, scoring bugs, and theme music

2001–2003

2003–2006

2006–2010

2010–2014

2014–2017

2017–2020

2020–present

Public service

2008–2009 cycle (began with 2008 Daytona 500)

2009–2010 cycle (began with 2009 Daytona 500)

Gambling

Programming issues

Programs throughout the years

Current broadcast rights

Former broadcast rights

Notable personalities

Current

Play-by-play

Analysts

Reporters

Studio hosts

Former

Play-by-play

Analysts

Reporters

Studio hosts

Presidents

Other media

See also

Related articles

Main competitors

Notes and references

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