This article is about the early regional sports channels. For the flagship national sports channel owned by the Fox Sports Media Group, see Fox Sports 1
Fox Sports Networks ( FSN ), once known as Fox Sports Net, was the collective mention for a group of regional sports channels in the United States. Formed in 1996 by News Corporation, the networks were acquired by The Walt Disney Company on March 20, 2019, following its acquisition of twenty-first Century Fox. A condition of that learning imposed by the U.S. Department of Justice required Disney to sell the regional networks by June 18, 2019, 90 days after the completion of its learning. [ 1 ] Disney subsequently agreed to sell the networks ( excluding the YES Network, being reacquired by Yankee Global Enterprises ) to Sinclair ; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] the transaction was completed on August 22, 2019. [ 4 ] The networks continued to use the Fox Sports name only under a transitional license agreement while rebranding options were explored. [ 5 ] A rebranding cross-partnership with Bally ‘s Corporation took impression on March 31, 2021, and the networks were rebranded as Bally Sports, ending the Fox Sports Networks stigmatization after 25 years. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Each of the channels in the group carried regional broadcasts of sporting events from diverse professional, collegiate and high school sports teams ( with broadcasts typically exclusive to each individual channel, although some were shown on multiple FSN channels or syndicated to a local air station within a particular team ‘s destine marketplace area ), along with regional and national sports discussion, documentary and analysis programs.

Depending on their individual team rights, some Fox Sports Networks maintained overflow feeds available via subscription television providers in their home markets, which provided alternate programming when not used to carry game broadcasts that the chief feed could not carry due to scheduling conflicts. Fox Sports Networks was headquartered in Houston, Texas, with master control facilities based in both Houston and Los Angeles ; FSN besides maintained production facilities at Stage 19 at Universal Studios Florida ( which once served as home of Nickelodeon Studios until its closure in 2005 ) .

history [edit ]

Beginnings [edit ]

former Fox Sports Net headquarter in Los Angeles At the dawn of the cable television television era, many regional sports networks ( RSNs ) vied to compete with the largest national sports network, ESPN. The most noteworthy were the SportsChannel network, which first began operating in 1976 with the launch of the master SportsChannel ( now MSG Plus ) in the New York City sphere and belated branched out into channels serving Chicago and Florida ; Prime Network, which launched in 1983 with Home Sports Entertainment ( now Fox Sports Southwest ) as its lease member network and late branched out onto the West Coast as “ Prime Sports ” ; and SportSouth, an RSN operated by the Turner Broadcasting System. On October 31, 1995, News Corporation, which ten years sooner launched the Fox Broadcasting Company, a cosmopolitan entertainment air network that formed its own sports division in 1994 with the skill of the television receiver rights to the National Football Conference of the National Football League, entered into a joint venture with TCI ‘s Liberty Media, acquiring a 50 % ownership interest in the company ‘s Prime Sports affiliates. [ 8 ] On July 3, 1996, News Corporation and Liberty Media/TCI announced that the Prime Sports networks would be rebranded under the new “ Fox Sports Net ” trade name ; [ 9 ] the Prime Sports-branded affiliates were officially relaunched as Fox Sports web on November 1 of that year. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The first new net to come out of the partnership was Fox Sports Arizona which launched on September 7, 1996, closely two months before the existing networks would be rebranded. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] That same year, Fox purchased SportSouth from Turner, and rebranded that network as Fox Sports South in January 1997. [ 15 ] On June 30, 1997, the Fox/Liberty joint venture purchased a 40 % interest in Cablevision / NBC ‘s sports properties including the SportsChannel America networks, Madison Square Garden, and the New York Knicks and New York Rangers professional sports franchises, a deal worth $ 850 million ; the deal formed the venture National Sports Partners to run the owned-and-operated regional networks. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] In early 1998, SportsChannel America was integrated into the Fox Sports Net family of networks ; SportsChannel Florida, however, remained as the alone SportsChannel America-branded network before it joined FSN a well in 2000 after News Corporation and Cablevision purchased Florida Panthers owner Wayne Huizenga ‘s controlling concern in that network. [ 20 ]
former Fox Sports Networks logos FSN logo from 1996 to 1999 . FSN logo from 1999 to 2004 . FSN “ pillbox ” logo from 2004 until 2008 ( remained in use until 2011 by networks that would become depart of Root Sports FSN logo from 2008 to 2012 .

Fox ownership [edit ]

In 1999, Liberty Media ( which had become a auxiliary of AT & T when AT & T acquired TCI earlier that year ) sold its matter to in Fox Sports Net and FX to News Corp. The sale was region of a complex transaction involving a store trade that gave Liberty an 8 % concern in News Corp, making it the second largest stockholder. [ 21 ] News Corp became the sole owner of Fox Sports Net. On July 11, 2000, Comcast purchased a majority concern in the Minneapolis -based Midwest Sports Channel and Baltimore -based Home Team Sports from Viacom. [ 22 ] News Corporation, a minority owner in both networks, wanted to acquire them outright and integrate the two networks into Fox Sports Net. Home Team Sports had been affiliated with FSN since 1996. [ 23 ] The company filed a lawsuit against Comcast ten days later on July 21, in an undertake to block the sale. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] On September 7, 2000, as separate of a village between the two companies, Comcast traded its equity matter to in Midwest Sports Channel ( which became Fox Sports Net North ) to News Corporation in exchange for exclusive possession of Home Team Sports ( which subsequently joined competing regional sports network Comcast SportsNet as Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, now NBC Sports Washington ). [ 26 ] In September 2004, Fox Sports Net became known merely as “ FSN ” ; however the erstwhile name remained in coarse consumption until 2010, when “ Fox Sports Local ” was adopted for use in referencing its regional networks. On February 22, 2005, Fox ‘s then-parent company, News Corporation, acquired full possession of FSN/Fox Sports Local, following an asset trade with Cablevision Systems Corporation, in which Fox sold its interest in Madison Square Garden and the stadium ‘s NBA and NHL team tenants in exchange for acquiring sole possession of Fox Sports Ohio and Fox Sports Florida. Cablevision simultaneously gained sole ownership of Fox Sports Chicago and Fox Sports New York, and a 50 % matter to in Fox Sports New England ( with Comcast retaining its existing 50 % stake ) ; Fox and Cablevision, however, retained articulation ownership of Fox Sports Bay Area. [ 27 ] [ 28 ]

affiliate realignments [edit ]

Fox Sports Chicago ceased operations in June 2006, after losing the regional cable television rights to local master teams ( including the Chicago Bulls, Blackhawks, Cubs and White Sox ) two years earlier to the newly launched Comcast SportsNet Chicago. [ 29 ] On December 22, 2006, News Corporation sold its sake in four Fox Sports regional networks – FSN Utah, FSN Pittsburgh, FSN Northwest and FSN Rocky Mountain – vitamin a well as its 38.5 % ownership interest in satellite provider DirecTV to Liberty Media for $ 550 million in cash and lineage, in substitution for Liberty ‘s 16.3 % bet on in News Corporation. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] On May 4, 2009, DirecTV Group Inc. announced it would become a part of Liberty ‘s entertainment unit, with plans to spin off certain properties into a branch company under the DirecTV name, which would operate the four acquired FSN-affiliated networks through DirecTV Sports Networks, [ 32 ] a fresh division formed on November 19, 2009, upon the by-product ‘s completion. [ 33 ] On April 30, 2007, Cablevision sold its 50 % interests in the New England and Bay Area networks to Comcast for $ 570 million ; [ 34 ] both networks became function of Comcast SportsNet, with FSN New England relaunching as Comcast SportsNet New England in July 2007 and FSN Bay Area relaunching as Comcast SportsNet Bay Area March 2008. Despite Cablevision ‘s sale of the networks, the channels continued to use “ Fox Sports Net/National Sports Partners ” in its copyright tag until 2008 ( the copyright used has since changed to “ National Sports Programming ” ). On April 1, 2011, DirecTV Sports Networks rebranded its FSN regional affiliates under the Root Sports brand. [ 35 ] In 2012, News Corporation acquired a 49 % venture in the YES Network, the regional sports network in the New York metropolitan area co-owned by Yankee Global Enterprises. [ 36 ] It was besides in that year that FSN/Fox Sports Local relocated its headquarters from the Westwood region of Los Angeles to Houston, Texas, and then re-branded to its current stigmatization. The FSN owned-and-operated networks were spun off along with most of News Corporation ‘s U.S. entertainment properties into twenty-first Century Fox on July 1, 2013. On January 25, 2014, 21st Century Fox then became the YES Networks ‘ majority owner by purchasing an extra 31 % share of it, increasing the company ‘s possession interest from 49 % to 80 %. [ 37 ] In September 2013, the network gained the affiliation for FSN ‘s national scheduling ( sharing it with MSG Plus, the erstwhile FSN New York )

Sale to Sinclair Broadcast Group [edit ]

On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced their captive to acquire twenty-first Century Fox for $ 52.4 billion after the by-product of sealed businesses into a new entity ( Fox Corporation ). While the acquisition was originally slated to include Fox Sports ‘ regional operations ( which, presumably, would have been re-aligned with Disney ‘s ESPN division ), [ 38 ] [ 39 ] the Justice Department ordered that they be divested within 90 days of the completion of the learning due to the assiduity of the marketplace that ESPN would hold. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Sinclair Broadcast Group was mentioned as the most probable buyer for the other FSN networks, but would need the aid of a private fairness firm to help raise the cash needed for the purchase. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] The group ‘s other sports properties include Stadium —a national sports network distributed via over-the-air digital television and internet streaming, Tennis Channel, angstrom well as Marquee Sports Network, a joint guess with the Chicago Cubs. [ 44 ] Over 40 parties were reported to have expressed interest, including Silver Lake Partners and William Morris Endeavor in a joint deal, Charter Communications, Discovery ( who operates the Eurosport networks in Europe ), [ 45 ] Amazon.com Inc., Apollo Global Management, The Blackstone Group, CVC Capital Partners, Ice Cube and LL Cool J, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Nexstar Media Group, Providence Equity Partners, and YouTube. [ 46 ] Due to a clause imposed on the master sale, [ 47 ] Yankee Global Enterprises had a correct of first refusal to purchase Fox ‘s share in YES Network. Allen & Company and JPMorgan Chase, who were handling the FSN sale for Disney, asked that all bids include YES in their offers. [ 48 ] Fox did not bid for the channels in the inaugural round. On November 20, 2018, Amazon, Sinclair and CVC jointly, [ 49 ] Apollo, KKR and Tegna officially bid for the network. [ 50 ] It was besides reported that a Sinclair/CVC joint guess was the leave bidder. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] In December 2018, it was reported that due to the first gear bids, there was the possibility that the networks could be sold individually alternatively of as a unmarried group, and that the banks were in talks with those who made overtone bids, such as Amazon ( who merely bid for the YES Network ) and Charter ( who only bid for Fox Sports South ). Minnesota Twins owner Jim Pohlad was reportedly interested in his team ‘s broadcaster Fox Sports North. [ 53 ] Discovery CEO David Zaslav stated that the company had considered a wish, but that regional sports networks were a “ very treacherous market ”. [ 54 ] In a January 2019 SEC filing, Fox Corporation stated that it no longer had any plans to bid for the channels. [ 55 ] On January 11, 2019 CNBC reported that Apollo, Blackstone, CVC and other bidders except Sinclair backed out of the consider for the networks with the exclusive bidder being the Sinclair/CVC joint guess. [ 56 ] It was besides reported that the possibility of spinning out the channels as an freelancer company was besides being considered. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] In February 2019, it was reported that Apollo and Sinclair had dropped out ( but with the early seeking a new collaborator ), but that Liberty Media and Major League Baseball had made offers. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] [ 61 ] Later that month, it was reported that Pohlad and Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores ( via his individual equity firm Platinum Equity ) had joined the Liberty Media bid. [ 62 ] On March 8, 2019, it was reported that the Yankees had reached a deal to re-purchase Fox ‘s partake in the YES Network for $ 3.5 billion, with Sinclair, Amazon, and The Blackstone Group holding minority shares. MLB besides confirmed a $ 10 billion bid, seeking to use them to bolster the income of its small-market teams. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] It was besides reported that month that Ice Cube and LL Cool J ( via Ice Cube ‘s 3-on-3 basketball league Big3 —which had Fox as its initial air partner ) were besides preparing a bid of around $ 15 billion. [ 65 ] Big3 stated that it wanted to expand the channels to include programming covering “ broader cultural and political topics ” of local concern aboard sports. In April 2019, Big3 filed a ailment with the Department of Justice and FCC, accusing Charter Communications of attempting to “ undermine ” its offer by threatening to not carry the channels if it won the auction. Liberty Media owner John Malone has an possession stake in Charter ; the party denied Big3 ‘s allegations. [ 66 ] The final circle of bids were ascribable on April 15, 2019, [ 67 ] with bids having been in excess of $ 10 billion or higher. Liberty and MLB were reported to have partnered on a joint invite, Big3 ‘s wish contained $ 6.5 billion in debt and lone $ 3 billion in outside fund, while Sinclair had re-enter competition in a joint bid with Apollo. [ 54 ] On April 26 and May 2, respectively, Fox Business Network and The Wall Street Journal reported that Sinclair was nearing an agreement to purchase the networks for $ 10 billion. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] On May 3, Sinclair officially announced that via its subsidiary company Diamond Sports Group, it had agreed to purchase the networks for $ 10.6 billion, pending regulative blessing. At the same time, it was besides revealed that Entertainment Studios would hold an equity stake in the company and serve as a “ message partner ”. [ 70 ] Three senators ( Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren ) called for the sale to be reviewed by the Department of Justice, citing concerns over Sinclair ‘s political views, and that it could use the networks as leverage for carriage agreements for its circulate television stations. [ 71 ] The sale was completed on August 22, 2019. The networks would continue to temporarily use the “ Fox Sports ” branding under a transitional license agreement with Fox Corporation ; Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley stated that there were plans to finally rebrand them under either a new identify, or to “ collaborator with a post who wants more exposure ”. There were besides plans to increase non-event scheduling, and vehemence on sports betting in its program. [ 5 ] In November 2019, the Sun-Sentinel reported that Fox Sports Florida was to be rebranded “ within the following few months ”. [ 72 ] ascribable to carriage disputes, Dish Network and Sling TV dropped Fox Sports Networks in July 2019. [ 73 ] FuboTV dropped the channels in January 2020, [ 74 ] and YouTube TV and Hulu + Live television receiver followed in October 2020. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] On November 4, 2020, Sinclair took a $ 4.23 billion write-off on the FSN purchase. [ 77 ]

Rebranding as Bally Sports [edit ]

On November 17, 2020, it was reported by Sportico that Sinclair was considering rebranding the networks via a mention rights agreement, and was reportedly in talks with multiple companies involved in sports betting. [ 78 ] The adjacent day, Sinclair announced that it had entered into an agreement with casino operator Bally ‘s pot to acquire the name rights under a 10-year deal. The agreement included integration of Bally ‘s content on the channels and early Sinclair properties ( including its television stations, Stadium, and Tennis Channel ), and a guarantee giving Sinclair the option to acquire a 14.9 % impale in Bally ‘s Corporation, and up to 24.9 % if performance criteria are met. [ 6 ] Sinclair announced in December 2020 that it planned to launch its own direct-to-consumer Bally’s-branded streaming serve, including live pour of its linear sports networks, in 2021. [ 79 ] On January 27, 2021, Sinclair announced that the networks would be rebranded as Bally Sports with Fox Sports Carolinas and Fox Sports Tennessee discontinued and their sports programming dispersed to the Bally Sports South and Southeast channels. To better reflect their target markets, Prime Ticket and SportsTime Ohio were rebranded as Bally Sports SoCal and Bally Sports Great Lakes respectively. [ 80 ] [ 81 ] In March 2021, Sinclair revealed that the relaunch would occur on March 31, the eve of Major League Baseball ‘s Opening Day. [ 82 ]

Networks [edit ]

Affiliates [edit ]

Partner services [edit ]

Comcast SportsNet [edit ]

From its origin in 1997 until July 31, 2012, Comcast maintained an agreement to carry blue-ribbon programming sourced from Fox Sports Net on its six Comcast SportsNet regional networks : Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, Comcast SportsNet California, Comcast SportsNet Chicago, Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, Comcast SportsNet New England and Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia. [ 95 ] Most of Fox Sports Networks ‘ other scheduling was late carried in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. markets on MASN2. choose games were besides shown on Cox Communications local origin channels ( late branded YurView ), by and large in Rhode Island and Virginia. The Cox networks were exclusive to their cable television systems .

Broadcast television receiver partners [edit ]

At least two times in its history Fox Sports Net, partnered with air television stations to fill coverage gaps in markets where it did not have an affiliate regional sports net. Upon its launch, Fox Sports Net did not have an release in New York, the nation ‘s largest media market ( Cablevision ‘s SportsChannel would not merge into Fox Sports until the follow year ). To overcome this obstacle, Fox Sports Net paid WBIS-TV $ 30 million to broadcast games and nightly news shows for the next five years. WBIS-TV itself was a newfangled post that launched on July 1, 1996, when Dow Jones & Company and ITT Corporation purchased it from the City of New York. The Fox Sports program complimented its “ S+ ” format which combined sports programming and business news. [ 96 ] From September 2012 to September 2013, Fox syndicated choose college football and basketball games produced by the Fox Sports regional networks to broadcast television stations in some of the markets where the aforesaid Comcast SportsNet had dropped coverage. These stations included WLVI ( Boston ), KICU-TV ( San Francisco ), WMCN-TV ( Philadelphia ), and WDCA ( Washington, DC ) .

Fox College Sports ( FCS ) [edit ]

Fox Sports Networks besides operated Fox College Sports (FCS), a slate of three digital cable channels ( Fox College Sports Atlantic, Fox College Sports Central, and Fox College Sports Pacific ) featuring programming divided by area ( chiefly collegiate and high school sports, arsenic well as minor league sports events ) from each person FSN network ; the FCS networks besides carry each affiliate ‘s regional sports news programs and non-news-and-event scheduling ( such as coaches shows, team magazines, and documentaries ). The three networks were, more or less, digest versions of the 22 FSN-affiliated networks ( including Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic ), though the channels besides showed international events that did not fit within the programming inventories of FSN or Fox Soccer Plus ( and anterior to 2013, the latter ‘s now-defunct rear Fox Soccer ), such as the Commonwealth Games, World University Games and the FINA World Swimming Championships. The three FCS channels offered FSN feeds from the play along channels, including live Big 12 Conference football, Pac-12 Conference football and basketball and Atlantic Coast Conference basketball games. The channels besides rebroadcast shows originally produced by and shown on the stick to list networks :

  • FCS Atlantic: Fox Sports South, Fox Sports Carolinas, Fox Sports Tennessee, Fox Sports Southeast, Fox Sports Florida, Fox Sports Sun, MSG Plus and AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh;
  • FCS Central: Fox Sports Detroit, Fox Sports Southwest, Fox Sports Oklahoma, Fox Sports North, Fox Sports Wisconsin, Fox Sports Midwest, Fox Sports Kansas City, Fox Sports Indiana and Fox Sports Ohio;
  • FCS Pacific: Fox Sports Arizona, Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain and Root Sports Northwest.

Fox College Sports besides broadcast high school and Independent Women ‘s Football League games, and college cartridge holder and bus ‘s shows. Fox College Sports once partnered with Big Ten Network to provide program .

high definition [edit ]

All of the Fox Sports Networks regional affiliates maintained high definition simulcast feeds presented in 720p ( the default option resolution format for twenty-first Century Fox ‘s broadcast and pay television properties ). All sports programming broadcast on each of the networks ( including most team-related psychoanalysis and discussion programs, and non-event amateur sports programs ) was broadcast in a format optimized for 16:9 widescreen displays, with graphics framed within a widescreen dependable area quite than the 4:3 safe area, intended to be shown in a letterboxed format for standard definition viewers .

National programs [edit ]

Programming scheme [edit ]

The program scheme adopted by most of the Fox Sports Networks was to acquire the play-by-play air rights to major sports teams in their regional market. This did not include NFL games, since the league ‘s contracts require all games to be aired on broadcast television receiver in each participating team ‘s local anesthetic markets. consequently, FSN focused on other major master leagues, like the MLB, NHL, NBA and WNBA. In addition to local play-by-play coverage, the FSN networks besides broadcast and produced pre-game shows, post-game shows, and weekly “ magazine ” shows centered on the teams that maintained rights with the individual net. In some markets, FSN competed directly with other regional sports networks for the air rights to team-specific scheduling. FSN networks besides purchased shows or broker time slots for sports and outdoors programming from outside producers in their region to fill out their schedule farther, with Fox Sports purchasing extra program for national air. last, low-trafficked recently night and early good morning timeslots were programmed locally with paid scheduling. besides, FSN competed directly with ESPN in acquiring the conference rights to diverse collegiate sports events. One noteworthy agreement was that with the Pac-12 Conference, in which packages of football and men ‘s basketball even season games were broadcast across all FSN networks within the regions served by each Pac-12 member university. Fox Sports Networks broadcast the majority of the Pac-12 Conference Men ‘s Basketball Tournament, except the tournament final examination, a well as a few Pac-12 matches from other conference-sanctioned sports ( such as baseball and volleyball ). Besides play-by-play game rights, FSN provided a common put of programming that was available to all its regional sports networks, most notably The Dan Patrick Show, The Best Damn Sports Show Period and Final Score ( TBDSSP and Final Score finally ceased production, while The Dan Patrick Show late moved to the NBC Sports Network ). Until August 2012, in some of regions served by that RSN, penis channels of the competing Comcast SportsNet ( as mentioned above ) carried FSN programming through broadcast agreements with Fox Sports. Fox Sports Networks ‘ national sports telecasts were once marketed under the “ FSN ” brand ; these national programs began to use more generic brand with fewer references to FSN or Fox in 2008, as a result of a number of Fox Sports Net affiliates being rebranded or realigned with other RSN chains ( including FSN New England and FSN Bay Area, which both became region of Comcast SportsNet ; FSN New York ‘s relaunch as MSG Plus, the sister to MSG Network ; and the eventual relaunch of several FSN affiliates acquired by DirecTV Sports Networks under the Root Sports brand ), however these networks late reverted to utilizing Fox branding on their FSN-syndicated broadcasts .

National prime clock time programming [edit ]

In summation to regional program, the Fox Sports Networks carried some flower time programming distributed to all of the regional networks ( including past and show serial such as The Best Damn Sports Show Period and Chris Myers Interviews ). FSN tried to compete with ESPN in regards to original program, most notably with the Fox Sports National Sports Report, a daily sports newsworthiness broadcast designed to compete with ESPN ‘s SportsCenter, which debuted on FSN in 1996. originally a two-hour broadcast known as Fox Sports News, the running prison term of National Sports Report was steadily cut back ( finally dwindling to 30 minutes ) as its ratings declined and the price of producing the program increased. FSN hired democratic former SportsCenter anchor Keith Olbermann and used him to promote the show heavily ; ratings continued to slide, however, leading Fox Sports to cancel the National Sports Report, which aired its last version in February 2002. In some markets, FSN aired the Regional Sports Report ( whose headline title was normally customized with the diagnose of the region in which the particular plan was broadcast, such as the Midwest Sports Report or Detroit Sports Report ), a companion news program focusing chiefly on regional sports deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as highlights and news on early sports teams that debuted in 2000 to complement the National Sports Report ; many of the regional reports were cancelled in 2002 due to increasing costs of producing the individual programs. [ 97 ]

live national play-by-play [edit ]

other sports [edit ]

Former scheduling [edit ]

In summation, FSN aired an extensive batting order of poker shows, including Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament and MansionPoker.net PokerDome Challenge. The World Poker Tour began broadcasting on FSN with its seventh season. It recently concluded airing its 15th season .

Teams by net [edit ]

FSN distributed its inaugural pay-per-view consequence on November 10, 2006, a packing match in which early heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield defeated Fres Oquendo in a solid decision at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The fight was besides pour release of charge on the FoxSports.com web site outside the United States .

Americans in Focus [edit ]

In February 2008, FSN launched a public service inaugural called “ Americans in Focus ”, with the sponsorship support of Farmers Insurance. This enterprise consists of one-minute vignettes profiling persons of non- caucasian ethnicity, with segments airing on the FSN networks in February 2008 and 2009 during Black History Month, from September 15 to October 15, 2008, for hispanic Heritage Month and in March 2009 for asian Pacific American Heritage Month. The Americans in Focus vignettes and the companion sub-site on the Fox Sports web site were discontinued in April 2009 .

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]

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