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Baseball Night in America is an American television presentation of Major League Baseball (MLB) games produced by Fox Sports for the Fox network on Saturday or Thursday nights. Fox's coverage includes 24 weeks worth of coverage as of 2024 , with 20 Saturday windows and 4 Thursday windows.
Ratings for both seasons of the Baseball Night in America regular season coverage were substantially higher than CBS's final season in 1993 (3.8) or any subsequent season on Fox. Baseball Night in America earned a 6.2 during the strike-shortened 1994 season and a 5.8 in 1995. [295]
The NFL theme was retained for MLB on Fox, including Fox Saturday Baseball, Baseball Night in America, the All-Star Game and all coverage of the postseason. However, occasionally one of the two themes was heard on telecasts that were designated for the other, implying that the designations are slightly fluid.
The regular season games fell under the Baseball Night in America umbrella which premiered on July 16, 1994. In even numbered years, NBC would have the rights to the All-Star Game and both League Championship Series while ABC would have the World Series and newly created Division Series .
In 2001, Jeanne Zelasko [74] became the first woman in more than a decade to regularly host Major League Baseball games for a network. The network canceled the pre-game show (as a cost-cutting measure) following the 2008 season.
The following is a list of announcers who called Major League Baseball telecasts for the joint venture (lasting for the 1994–1995 seasons) between Major League Baseball, ABC and NBC called The Baseball Network.
Major League Baseball, according to Scherick, insisted on protecting local coverage and didn't care about national appeal. ABC though, did care about the national appeal and claimed that "most of America was still up for grabs." In 1953, ABC earned an 11.4 rating for their Game of the Week telecasts. Blacked-out cities had 32 percent of households.
A night game is a baseball game played partially or entirely after sunset. Night Baseball may refer to the following broadcast programs: Sunday Night Baseball; Monday Night Baseball; Tuesday Night Baseball; Wednesday Night Baseball; Thursday Night Baseball; Friday Night Baseball; Baseball Night in America, typically on Saturdays