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For the 2000 and 2001 seasons, the Fox network's then-sister cable channel, Fox Family (later ABC Family, now Freeform) carried a weekly Major League Baseball game on Thursday nights (a game that had previously aired nationwide on Fox Sports Net from 1997 to 1999), as well as select postseason games from the Division Series.
Major League Baseball (MLB) games aired on the predecessor networks for the American pay television channel Freeform.These began in 2000, when the channel was known as Fox Family Channel, co-owned by News Corporation and Haim Saban, as a replacement for Thursday night games that had aired on Fox Sports Net in prior seasons.
February 2000: Fox Family Countdown: May 25, 2000: Walter Melon: ... ABC Family Action Block / Jetix: March 2, 2002 ... Programming schedule at Freeform Official Site
The contracts with ESPN were worth $141.8 million per year and $851 million overall. After Disney bought Fox Family (who from 2000–2001 aired Thursday night games) in 2002 to become ABC Family, the Division Series games aired on ABC Family (with ESPN's announcers, graphics, and music) for one year. ESPN then added the extra playoff games and ...
For the 2000 and 2001 seasons, the Fox network's then-sister cable channel, Fox Family (later ABC Family, now Freeform) carried a weekly Major League Baseball game on Thursday nights (a game that had previously aired nationwide on Fox Sports Net from 1997 to 1999), as well as select postseason games from the Division Series.
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a commercial broadcasting television network owned by Disney Entertainment, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, ABC is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world. The network began its TV operations in 1948.
For the 2007 season, Fox did exactly that, and TBS is now the cable home of the postseason as part of its new baseball contract. For the 2000 and 2001 seasons, the Fox network's then-sister cable channel, Fox Family (later ABC Family, now Freeform) carried a weekly Major League Baseball game on Thursday nights (a game that had previously aired ...
This was the only postseason in which Division Series games aired across ABC Family, Fox, and Fox's sister network FX in the United States. After Fox sold Fox Family to ESPN's parent company Disney in November 2001, and rebranded it as ABC Family, it was decided that the channel could still air selected Division Games in 2002. The ABC Family ...