FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin is an American

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owned by Main Street Sports Group (formerly Diamond Sports Group) and operated as an affiliate of

FanDuel Sports Network FanDuel Sports Network (formerly Bally Sports) is a group of regional sports networks in the United States owned by Main Street Sports Group (formerly Diamond Sports Group). The networks carry regional broadcasts of sporting events from various ...

. Operating as the "Wisconsin" sub-feed of

Fox Sports North FanDuel Sports Network North is an American regional sports network owned by Main Street Sports Group (formerly Diamond Sports Group) and operated as a FanDuel Sports Network affiliate. The channel broadcasts coverage of sporting events involving ...

until 2007, the channel was known as Fox Sports Wisconsin until 2021 and Bally Sports Wisconsin until 2024. It broadcasts regional coverage of sports events throughout the state of

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, with a focus on a professional sports team based in

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, namely the

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of the

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. It primarily operates from a studio/office facility in downtown Milwaukee, with secondary offices and production studio/office hub based in downtown

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. FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin is available on

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providers throughout Wisconsin, extreme eastern Minnesota, the western

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, northwestern

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, and

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; it is also available nationwide on

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via

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. FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin broadcasts 2,450 hours of locally produced programming per year and reaches more than 1.7 million homes.

History

Origins

The first effort to air the Bucks and Brewers on cable,

Sportsvue Sportsvue was a regional sports network operating in Wisconsin. The premium cable channel showed telecasts of sporting events, principally those involving the Milwaukee Brewers and Milwaukee Bucks. Sportsvue operated from April 3, 1984 to Februar ...

in 1984, was hampered by multiple factors, including dispersed systems and uncabled parts of the state of Wisconsin (including Milwaukee itself), team nadirs for the Bucks and Brewers and the availability of

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games via superstation

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throughout the state. Sportsvue was discontinued at the beginning of 1985 and resulted in the sale of the Bucks to future senator

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. In the meantime, the Bucks and Brewers returned to a statewide broadcast network originated by

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, and later

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, which was hampered by the two teams limiting their schedule to mainly road games.

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(unrelated to the current-day high school-focused sports publishing operation), a gametime-only network that broadcast

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baseball and

basketball games. The channel was owned by

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's Milwaukee franchise and Group W. In 1996, it was taken over by the

-based

Midwest Sports Channel FanDuel Sports Network North is an American regional sports network owned by Main Street Sports Group (formerly Diamond Sports Group) and operated as a FanDuel Sports Network affiliate. The channel broadcasts coverage of sporting events involvin ...

(MSC), which was owned by

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(as a result of CBS' 1995 merger with Group W's corporate parent Westinghouse). Shortly afterward, MSC became an affiliate of the fledgling

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in the fall of 1996. From then on until 2007, Wisconsin was served by one of three regional subfeeds of MSC/FSN North; the other two being a feed for the

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metropolitan area and a feed for the rest of

(as well as Iowa,

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and

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). CBS sold the network to

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in 2000, ultimately rebranding as FSN North in April 2001. Despite being well out of the station's market area, MSC's late night encore of WCCO's 10:00 p.m. newscast also aired on the Wisconsin network until the Fox purchase. The network then began maintaining offices at the studios of

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WITI (channel 6, now an affiliate of the network) in the Milwaukee suburb of Brown Deer, along with sharing limited programming with that station.

Wisconsin gets its own channel

FSN North converted the Wisconsin feed into a separate channel, FSN Wisconsin. The channel launched on April 1, 2007, coinciding with the start of the 2007 Milwaukee Brewers season, originating from facilities in Milwaukee. That year it aired 125 Brewers games and 70 Bucks games. Other programming included the

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(

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athletic events, WIAC events, and WIAA high school sports, including live telecasts of the annual football championships. At launch FSN Wisconsin was available to more than 1.5 million homes and produced nearly 2,600 hours of local programming. After

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sold WITI to Local TV in 2008, FSN Wisconsin relocated its operations to facilities in downtown Milwaukee. As part of the national rebranding of the Fox Sports Networks in 2012, FSN Wisconsin was rebranded as Fox Sports Wisconsin. Bally Sports Wisconsin

On December 14, 2017, as part of a merger between both companies,

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announced plans to acquire all 22 regional Fox Sports networks from

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, including Fox Sports Wisconsin. However, on June 27, 2018, the

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ordered their divestment under antitrust grounds, citing Disney's ownership of

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. On May 3, 2019,

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and

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(through their joint venture, Diamond Holdings) bought

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from

for $10.6 billion. The deal closed on August 22, 2019, thus placing Fox Sports Wisconsin in common ownership with the Milwaukee and Green Bay duopolies of

/ WVTV-DT2,

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and Madison Fox affiliate

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. On November 17, 2020, Sinclair announced an agreement with casino operator

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to serve as a new

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partner for the FSN channels. Sinclair announced the new Bally Sports branding for the channels on January 27, 2021. On March 31, 2021, coinciding with the

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, Fox Sports Wisconsin was rebranded as Bally Sports Wisconsin. In February 2021, the Brewers and Sinclair announced a new contract that gave the Brewers a minority share in the network. The deal is reportedly worth around $34 million per year for four years. The network also originated the official team coverage of the Bucks' 2021 championship parade. On March 14, 2023, Diamond Sports filed for

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. On October 9, 2024, after the Brewers' contract with Diamond expired,

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announced that it would take the Brewers' media rights in-house, which would have ended the team's relationship with Bally Sports and its forerunners after 27 years. On October 21, 2024, the network was rebranded as FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin, as part of a new sponsorship agreement between Diamond and sports betting company

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. On March 19, 2025, the Brewers announced that through a deal made with WTMJ radio owner

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and MLB Local Media, LLC that former sister station WITI, along with a state network of stations within the team's territory, would carry three spring training and ten regular season games in the 2025 season locally in a simulcast with the streaming channel.

Programming

FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin holds the regional cable television rights to

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games from the

(whose telecasts became exclusive to the network starting with the 2007–08 season) and since 2000, simulcasts most of the

games from the

televised by

FanDuel Sports Network North FanDuel Sports Network North is an American regional sports network owned by Main Street Sports Group (formerly Diamond Sports Group) and operated as a FanDuel Sports Network affiliate. The channel broadcasts coverage of sporting events involving ...

(usually through FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin Extra), as well as pre-game, post-game and fan shows for all three teams. In 2018, simulcasts of

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matches were added to Fox Sports Wisconsin after Fox Sports North assumed that team's rights. The channel also carries high school sports competitions sanctioned by the

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(WIAA) (the girls' and boys' state tournament final rights are held by Allen Media Group's Wisconsin broadcast cluster and a statewide network of broadcast stations, though Bally Sports Wisconsin is allowed to carry replays of the tournament), weekend outdoor sports programming, and many of the national programs distributed by Bally Sports. It also airs

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competitions from the

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and the

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, and a limited schedule of Marquette men's games through a sub-licensing deal with sister network

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in which some games not of national interest are distributed to their regional sports network partners,

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and the ESPN family of networks as part of the "new" Big East's television contract (Bally Sports Wisconsin acquired the partial rights to Marquette sports events from Time Warner Cable Sports (the now-defunct Spectrum Sports), a regional network available only on Time Warner systems in eastern Wisconsin, which had been carrying the games since 2006 until 2013). The channel now carries select programming from

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due to the naming rights deal with

and syndicated programming like Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud, how-to shows and many other syndicated shows. From 2007 to 2011, FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin sub-licensed a package of fifteen Milwaukee Brewers games for broadcast on Milwaukee

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(channel 41, now

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owned-and-operated station

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); the Fox Sports-produced broadcasts aired outside of the Milwaukee market on Bally Sports Wisconsin, while WMLW owner

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sold advertising for those telecasts. The deal was discontinued after the 2011 season due to the Brewers wanting a schedule of games entirely in

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(until a move of WMLW's schedule to a full-power signal in August 2012, this was impossible for them to do, along with

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limitations) and the launch of a secondary feed allowing live coverage of both Brewers and Bucks games, making the team exclusive to the network.

Team and conference coverage

;

(through

) ;

Division I athletics *

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(coaches shows only) * Kwik Trip Holiday Face-Off men's hockey tournament *

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Hockey ;NCAA

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athletics *

Other services

FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin HD

FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin HD is a

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simulcast feed of FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin. All Bucks games are broadcast in HD, as well as sports, magazine and first-run syndicated programs distributed nationally by FanDuel Sports Network. Depending on the market, FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin Extra is also transmitted in high definition. Since 2012, the HD feed has been downscaled in letterbox on the channel's

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feed, as had become standard for all of Fox's cable networks.

FanDuel Sports Network Extra

FanDuel Sports Network Extra is an overflow feed that launched on April 9, 2012, and is available in both high definition and standard definition on most cable and satellite providers. The channel is mainly used to allow the network to air games that cannot air on Bally Sports Wisconsin due to events with conflicting scheduling – for example, when a Minnesota Wild game airs on FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin, a Milwaukee Bucks game scheduled to start during the duration of the game is carried over FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin Extra (this example often occurs from March to April (or as late as June), when the NBA and Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons overlap, although the reverse situation may occur whenever the Bucks are involved in a pre-Conference Final playoff game), along with Wild and Minnesota United games where scheduled. It also carried national college sports rights they held as FSN, such as the lower-interest

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matchups which were usually pre-empted locally, and were of spare interest to Wisconsin viewers. FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin Extra also airs Minnesota Wild hockey games simulcast from FanDuel Sports Network North that can be shown in-market when Bally Sports Wisconsin is airing a game of local interest. Due to

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restrictions imposed by MLB and the NBA,

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and Timberwolves games are not broadcast on FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin, although games from both teams are cleared to air via FanDuel Sports Network North in parts of Wisconsin. Some systems carry the Extra channel on a full-time basis, while others carry it only for game telecasts; non-game Extra programming contains a loop of national Bally Sports Networks and syndicated programming such as the

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, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud and how-to shows.

On-air staff

Current

Milwaukee Bucks telecasts

* Lisa Byington – play-by-play announcer * Dave Koehn – alternate play-by-play announcer *

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- color analyst *

Marques Johnson Marques Kevin Johnson (born February 8, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player and character actor who is a basketball analyst for the Milwaukee Bucks on Bally Sports Wisconsin. He played as a small forward in the National B ...

- color analyst * Craig Coshun – ''Bucks Live'' host * Stephen Watson – ''Bucks Live'' host (mostly for road games) * Melanie Ricks – sideline reporter

Wisconsin Badgers telecasts

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– host of syndicated ''Badger Sports Report'', for Wisconsin Badgers athletics

Former

* Davey Nelson – ''Brewers Live'' analyst (deceased) * Jerry Augustine – Brewers Pregame/Postgame analyst (moved to the

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in 2021) *

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- Bucks color analyst *

Telly Hughes Telly Hughes is an American television sports personality and Big Ten Network host. Personal life A native of Cahokia, Illinois, Hughes lives in Milwaukee with his family and is a graduate of Illinois State University where he pitched for the base ...

– Bucks & Brewers field reporter *

Jim Paschke Jim Paschke (born November 21, 1950) is an American retired sportscaster. Paschke has handled play-by-play duties for a wide array of sports at all levels, but is most recognized for his work as the Milwaukee Brewers television announcer (1987� ...

- Bucks play-by-play announcer * Katie George – Bucks sideline reporter (now at

and

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) * Zora Stephenson – sideline reporter & fill-in play-by-play announcer

Milwaukee Brewers telecasts

Jeff Levering Jeff Levering is an American sportscaster. Levering is currently the lead play-by-play announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers on Bally Sports, and he served as the secondary announcer to Bob Uecker with the Brewers Radio Network (usually the pri ...

- lead play-by-play announcer * Brian Anderson – alternative play-by-play announcer * Bill Schroeder – color analyst * Chris Singleton - alternative color analyst * Craig Coshun – Brewers Pregame/Postgame host, field reporter, and alternative play-by-play announcer * Stephen Watson – Brewers Pregame/Postgame host (mostly for road games) *

Sophia Minnaert Sophia Minnaert (born July 23, 1987) is an American journalist and the broadcast and digital features content director for the Milwaukee Brewers. Fox Sports Wisconsin In 2012, Minnaert was hired by Fox Sports Wisconsin (FSW) to work in their so ...

– field reporter *

Tim Dillard Timothy Charles Dillard (born July 19, 1983) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers. He is a pregame and postgame analyst for Brewers television broadcasts on Bally ...

– Brewers Pregame/Postgame analyst *

Vinny Rottino Vincent Antonio Rottino (born April 7, 1980) is an American former professional baseball utility player and current television analyst for FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin covering the Milwaukee Brewers. He has played positions including catcher, ...

– Brewers Pregame/Postgame analyst

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