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Fox Saturday Baseball is an American television presentation of Major League Baseball (MLB) games produced by Fox Sports for the Fox network on Saturday afternoons. Fox's coverage includes 4 weeks worth of coverage as of 2023. Coverage usually includes 2 to 4 separate games all starting at 4PM ET, local affiliates air the game of most interest ...
In September 2000, Major League Baseball reached a six-year, $2.5 billion contract [7] with Fox that allowed it to retain rights to Saturday baseball games, [8] and included rights to the All-Star Game, select Division Series games and exclusive coverage of the League Championship Series and World Series. 90% of the contract's value to Fox ...
For the 2014 season, Fox's sister cable channel Fox Sports 1 began providing Major League Baseball game coverage, carrying a Fox Saturday Baseball doubleheader on most weeks. FS1's coverage begins with the pregame show a half-hour before the game, which usually starts at 1:00 or 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Another original charter Fox affiliate, KMSP 9 out of Minneapolis, Minnesota carried the Minnesota Twins from 1979-1988 and again from 1998-2002, when it was then affiliated with UPN. WTXF 29 out of Philadelphia, which became an owned-and-operated Fox station in 1995, aired Philadelphia Phillies games from 1983-1992.
Fox Saturday Baseball, including the prime time games starting in 2010, still used the 2007 version of the regular theme song exclusively. During the 2009 season, some Fox Sports regional affiliates switched to the 2007 theme while others continued using the original 1996 theme.
As previously mentioned, in September 2000, Major League Baseball signed a six-year, $2.5 billion contract with Fox [6] to televise Saturday afternoon regular-season baseball games, the All-Star Game and coverage of the Division Series, League Championship Series and World Series. 90% of the contract's value to Fox, which was paying the league ...
The channel was integrated into the recently formed Fox Sports Net group of regional sports networks, and was officially rebranded as Fox Sports South in January 1997. [2] The channel's name was amended to "Fox Sports Net South" in 2000, as part of a collective brand modification of the FSN networks under the "Fox Sports Net" banner).
Fox telecasts are available on the Fox Sports app for authenticated subscribers. March. TBD. Fox Deportes. The Spanish-language cable channel will present the NLCS and World Series games. March ...