Fox Sports (United States)


The Fox Sports Media Group is the American sports programming division of Fox Corporation that is responsible for sports broadcasts carried by Fox Broadcasting Company, as well as operating television networks Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, and Fox Sports Radio. In addition, the company is responsible for the streaming services Fox One and Tubi's sports programming, and it owns 61% of the Big Ten Network with the Big Ten Conference.
The division which was formed on August 12, 1994 with Fox getting awarded broadcast rights to National Football League games. In subsequent years, Fox has televised the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, NASCAR, the Championship Series, Major League Soccer, the U.S. Open golf tournament, the National Hot Rod Association, WWE programming, the XFL, the United States Football League, the United Football League and the World Baseball Classic .
On December 14, 2017, the Walt Disney Company announced plans to acquire then-parent company 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion, which included key assets such as 20th Century Fox, the regional Fox Sports Networks, FX Networks, and Fox Sports International. Under the terms of the proposed acquisition, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, and other assets were spun off into the division's current parent company, which is independently owned by Fox Corporation.
WWW foxsports.com

History

Establishment

When the Fox Broadcasting Company launched in October 1986, the network's management, having seen how sports programming played a critical role in the growth of the British satellite service BSkyB, determined that sports would be the type of programming that would ascend Fox to a major network status the quickest; as a result, Fox tried to attract a professional football package to the network. In 1987, after ABC initially hedged on renewing its contract with the National Football League for the television rights to Monday Night Football, Fox made an offer for the package at the same price that ABC had been paying at the time – about $13 million per game. However, partly due to the fact that Fox had yet to establish itself as a major network, the NFL decided to resume negotiations with ABC, with the two parties eventually agreeing to a new contract, keeping what was the crown jewel of the league's television broadcasts on that network.
Six years later, the league's television contracts for the National Football Conference package, American Football Conference package, as well as the Sunday night and Monday night packages were up for renewal. Fox placed an aggressive bid for $1.58 billion to obtain the broadcast rights to the NFC package, which for decades had been held by CBS. On December 17, 1993, the NFL selected Fox's bid and signed a four-year contract with Fox to award it the rights to televise regular season and playoff games from the NFC, beginning with the 1994 season; the initial contract also included the exclusive U.S. television rights to broadcast Super Bowl XXXI in 1997. The deal stripped CBS of football telecasts for the first time since 1955.
Fox lured commentators Pat Summerall, John Madden, Dick Stockton, Matt Millen, James Brown and Terry Bradshaw, as well as many behind-the-scenes management and production personnel from CBS Sports to staff the network's NFL coverage. The network's studio coverage originated from the Fox Television Center in Hollywood, California, later moving to the Fox Network Center by 1998.
In order to bolster viewership for the NFL telecasts, Fox parent News Corporation decided to strike affiliation deals with broadcasting companies that owned stations affiliated with ABC, NBC and CBS in order to raise the profile of Fox's affiliate body, which at the time mainly consisted of UHF stations that had little to no prior history as a major network affiliate, had weaker signals and largely did not carry as much value with advertisers as the Big Three's affiliates. During the late spring and summer of 1994, Fox reached separate agreements with New World Communications and SF Broadcasting to switch a total of sixteen stations to Fox between September 1994 and September 1996 as affiliation contracts with those stations' existing network partners expired. The NFL television rights and affiliation deals firmly established Fox as the nation's fourth major network. The network's relationship with the NFL would expand in 1997, when it began airing games and acquired partial ownership of NFL Europe, an agreement which ended in 2006 when all games were moved to NFL Network; the by-then renamed NFL Europa closed down the next year.
With a sports division now established, Fox decided to seek broadcast rights agreements with other major sports leagues. On September 9, 1994, Fox was awarded the broadcast television rights to the National Hockey League in a $155 million bid ; as a result, it became the first broadcast network to be awarded a national television contract to carry NHL games, which longtime NHL Commissioner John Ziegler had long thought to be unattainable. Again, Fox outbid CBS, which wanted to secure the rights as a result of losing the NFL to Fox, for the NHL package. Fox lost the NHL rights to ABC Sports and ESPN in 1999.

MLB, NASCAR, and BCS acquisitions

On November 7, 1995, Fox was awarded partial broadcast rights to Major League Baseball games, in a shared deal with NBC. Through the deal, which Fox paid a fraction of the amount that CBS paid to obtain the rights effective with the 1990 season, Fox would broadcast approximately 16 regular season Saturday afternoon games per season and offered different game broadcasts shown on a regionalized basis. As part of a six-year renewal of this deal – valued at $2.5 billion – in September 2000, Fox Sports became the exclusive over-the-air broadcaster of Major League Baseball, giving it the exclusive rights to the World Series beginning with the 2000 edition, as well as rights to the All-Star Game, select Division Series games and exclusive coverage of the League Championship Series. Under a clause in the contract, if some of the scheduled games were cancelled by a strike or lockout, Fox would still pay Major League Baseball for a full slate of annual games, while the league in turn had to compensate Fox with additional telecasts.
In 1998, Fox obtained the broadcast rights to the Cotton Bowl Classic college football game. In 2007, Fox began airing most of the games of the Bowl Championship Series, including the BCS National Championship Game, in a deal worth close to $20 million per game. Due to a separate arrangement between ABC and the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, events in the series that were held at the Rose Bowl stadium – such as the Rose Bowl Game and the 2010 BCS Championship – were excluded from the contract.
On November 11, 1999, Fox and sister cable channel FX were awarded rights to the NASCAR Winston Cup Series and Busch Series as part of NASCAR's first centralized television rights deal, beginning in the 2001 season. The contract covered the first half of the season, with the second half of the season being aired by NBC and TNT. Rights to the Daytona 500 and Pepsi 400 alternated annually, with Fox airing the 500 in odd-numbered years, and the 400 in even-numbered years. Fox's first telecast was the 2001 Daytona 500—an event that would be marred by a final-lap crash that resulted in the death of Dale Earnhardt. Later that year, Fox acquired the motorsports cable network Speedvision, and rebranded it in February 2002 as Speed Channel. Fox intended to use the network as an outlet for ancillary NASCAR content. In September 2002, Speed Channel bought out ESPN's contract to televise the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.
Fox lost the broadcasting rights to the Bowl Championship Series to ESPN beginning in 2010. In response, Fox introduced a Saturday "game of the week" on FX in 2011, featuring games from the Pac-12, the Big 12 and Conference USA ; Fox also signed deals to carry two new championship games created through conference realignments that occurred in 2010 and 2011: the Big Ten Conference Championship through 2016, and the Pac-12 Championship through 2017 on an alternating basis with ESPN. With the replacement of the BCS with the College Football Playoff, Fox lost the broadcasting rights to the 2015 Cotton Bowl Classic onwards again to ESPN.

Present day

In May 2010, Fox aired the final of the UEFA Champions League, marking the network's first ever soccer broadcast.
In August 2011, Fox Sports announced it had reached a seven-year broadcast agreement with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, ending the mixed martial arts promotion's relationship with Spike. The deal included the rights to broadcast four live events in prime time or late night annually, as well as other UFC programming that would air on various Fox properties, including the Fox network, FX and Fuel TV. The contract expired in 2019, with the UFC moving its broadcast rights to ESPN.
On October 22, 2011, FIFA announced that Fox Sports had acquired rights to air its tournaments beginning in 2015, including the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, and the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup. In February 2015, Fox's contract was extended to 2026, in what was reported to be compensation for the rescheduling of the 2022 tournament to late-November/mid-December.
On August 6, 2013, Fox Sports announced a 12-year deal to broadcast the championships of the United States Golf Association, including the U.S. Open, beginning in 2015. In 2016, Fox began to air NHRA drag racing events—primarily on Fox Sports 1 and 2, and with selected flagship events airing on Fox proper. On May 12, 2014, Fox Sports announced a 7-year deal to broadcast Major League Soccer. The deal included the rights to air the MLS Cup on Fox in even numbered years.
On July 24, 2017, the Big Ten Conference announced that it had reached six-year deals with Fox Sports and ESPN to hold rights to its football games beginning in the 2017 season, with Fox's package expanding on its involvement in BTN. As part of the contract, Fox's contract to run BTN was extended through 2032.
On January 31, 2018, the NFL announced that Fox had acquired the sub-license for its Thursday Night Football package under a five-year deal, beginning in the 2018 NFL season. The deal is reportedly worth an average of more than $660 million per year. On May 6, 2019, Fox Sports announced a multi-year broadcast deal with the new incarnation XFL, which went on hiatus midway through its first season, but would return in 2023.
In May 2019, Fox Sports partnered with The Stars Group to launch co-branded sports betting operations, including Fox Bet, as well as the free football prediction game Fox Sports Super 6. As part of the partnership, Fox Corporation acquired a 4.99% minority stake in the company for $236 million, with an option to increase its stake to up to 50% within the next 10 years. The partnership made Fox the first major U.S. sports broadcaster to establish a sports betting operation, taking advantage of the repeal of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992. With the company's sale to Flutter Entertainment, Fox would have an option in 2021 to acquire an 18.5% stake in its U.S. subsidiary FanDuel Group.
In June 2020, Fox exited its contract with the USGA and sold the remainder to previous rightsholder NBC. In June 2021, it was announced that Fox would be a minority investor in a new iteration of the United States Football League, which would operate as a successor to The Spring League.
In November 2021, it was announced that Fox Sports had acquired English-language rights to UEFA national team matches under a six-year deal from 2022 to 2028, replacing ESPN. This includes the UEFA Nations League beginning in June 2022, tournaments such as UEFA Euro 2024 and 2028, UEFA qualifiers for Euro and the FIFA World Cup, and UEFA-organized friendlies. In January 2022, Fox announced that it would sub-license portions of this package to FuboTV, focusing on the Nations League and selected matches from the European Championships. In January 2022, Fox Sports reached an agreement with the New York Racing Association for the rights to the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the horse racing triple crown, through 2030.
On February 6, 2024, Fox Sports announced a joint venture with ESPN Inc. and TNT Sports, named Venu Sports, that would include the three organizations' main linear sports channels and associated media rights, beginning in fall 2024. The service was ultimately cancelled.
On June 13, 2024, Fox Sports announced a multi-year deal to be the sole broadcaster of the IndyCar Series and its subsidiary series Indy NXT. On January 16, 2025, Fox Sports announced a multi-year deal with the Saudi PIF-backed LIV Golf, replacing The CW's sports division as its broadcaster.
On July 17, 2025, Fox Sports announced a content partnership with Barstool Sports and its founder Dave Portnoy, under which Barstool will produce a new daily studio program for FS1, Portnoy and other Barstool personalities will make appearances on Fox's college football pre-game show Big Noon Kickoff, and the two units will also co-develop new digital content.

Channels

In addition to the broadcast division, Fox Sports Media Group owns other national cable sports channels and a radio network in the United States, which include:

2013 cable reorganization

Fox Sports Media Group formally announced the replacement of Speed with Fox Sports 1 on March 5, 2013, with the network eventually launching on the tentative date of August 17, 2013. The network would air content from Major League Baseball, the UFC, NASCAR, soccer and multiple college sports events. The network launched Fox Sports Live as a competitor to ESPN's SportsCenter, with the former described as a "24/7 news franchise providing around-the-clock coverage through regularly scheduled programs, hourly updates and an information-rich ticker that provides a network agnostic sports event television schedule." Notable personalities on FS1 include Regis Philbin, Mike Tyson, Michael Strahan, Erin Andrews, as well as many others. The international feed of Speed would eventually be replaced with Fox Sports Racing on February 20, 2015.
On August 17, 2013, the extreme sports-focused Fuel TV was rebranded as Fox Sports 2, a companion network serving primarily as an overflow channel for Fox Sports 1, along with providing supplementary sports coverage.
On September 2, 2013, Fox Soccer was replaced by FXX, an entertainment-based sister network to FX with a focus on comedy programming. With the concurrent shutdown and replacement of the network, Fox Soccer's sports programming was shifted over to Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2. As a result, outside of very rare sports conflicts on both Fox Sports networks, FX no longer carries any sports programming. Fox Soccer's companion premium service, Fox Soccer Plus, continues to exist and supplements soccer coverage on Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2.

Former affiliates

Regional sports networks

Prior to its acquisition by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, Fox Sports Networks operated as a slate of regional sports networks with broadcasting agreements that follow league market distribution rules. For example, cable and satellite subscribers in Kansas City, Missouri receive Kansas City Royals games on Fox Sports Midwest, while viewers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin see Milwaukee Brewers games on Fox Sports Wisconsin. The regionalized coverage frequently restricts broadcasts of live sporting events outside of a team's home market.
In addition to game coverage, the regional networks also air regionally-based news, analysis, magazine, and documentary programming, as well as some common national programming.
In some markets, the regional Fox Sports network operates one or multiple overflow feeds that carry additional programs that cannot be carried on the main feed due to event conflicts.
On March 31, 2021, the Fox Sports Networks rebranded as Bally Sports.

International

Technical evolution

High-definition coverage

For Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002, Fox Sports produced its first telecast in a 16:9, 480p enhanced-definition format marketed as "Fox Widescreen"; while promoted as having better quality than standard definition, and being the first U.S. sporting event produced completely in a widescreen format, it was not true high definition, but still matched the aspect ratio of HDTV sets.
Fox Sports began producing selected events in 720p high definition, starting on July 3, 2004, with the Pepsi 400, select NFL games, the 2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and that year's postseason.
During the following years, Fox would produce more sports telecasts in HD, but still fell back on using 480p widescreen for events not televised in HD.
As of late July 2010, all sports programming broadcast by Fox-owned networks began transitioning to a format optimized for 16:9 widescreen displays, with graphics framed within a widescreen safe area rather than the 4:3 safe area, intended to be shown in a letterboxed format on standard definition feeds.

Virtual reality

From 2016 until selling its virtual reality division FoxNext to Disney in 2019, Fox Sports produced a limited number of game telecasts in 360-degree virtual reality, mostly college football. A TV Everywhere login was required to access the broadcast.

4K coverage

In 2017, Fox Sports began to produce selected telecasts in 4K ultra-high-definition television, beginning with selected NASCAR and college basketball events, and for the 2017 season, a college football game per-week. They are primarily available via DirecTV and other supported providers.
Fox began televising its Thursday Night Football games in 1080p upconverted to 4K with HLG HDR on September 26, 2019.

Technological enhancements

Graphics, scoring bugs, and theme music

The graphics and scoring bugs used by Fox Sports have won awards and changed how sports broadcasts are presented on United States television. The opening notes of the theme used on the Fox network's NFL broadcasts are incorporated in iterations of other themes used on Fox Sports broadcasts. Originally, when the scoring bugs are upgraded, the previous versions were retained for one of the division's other properties for about a year; however, this practice ended in 2009. The first score bug was used for Fox's NFL coverage, and was then expanded to the network's baseball and hockey broadcasts.
One segment of the Scott Schreer-composed theme, coincidentally or otherwise, echoes the notes for the "giddyup, giddyup, giddyup, let's go" line from the Leroy Anderson-composed song, Sleigh Ride. Although, the rhythm of that segment of both tunes is similar to that of the first four bars of both the first and second figures of the Johann Strauss Sr.-composed Radetzky March, which itself is similar to that of the finale of Gioachino Rossini's overture to his opera William Tell. During sports broadcasts aired during the Christmas holiday season, Fox Sports broadcasts will sometimes acknowledge this fact by seguéing from the one tune into the other during the commercial break outcue.
Beginning in October 2010, the NFL on FOX theme became uniform for all Fox Sports properties beginning with the National League Championship Series that year and NASCAR races with the 2011 Budweiser Shootout. However, NASCAR and MLB broadcasts reinstated their own theme music in 2016 and 2020, respectively, and the CBB on FOX telecasts were switched over to "Roundball Rock", which was formerly used by the NBA on NBC, in 2019. Fox College Football uses a marching band rendition of the NFL theme, and USFL on FOX, which debuted in 2022, uses the standard version.

2001–2003

By 2001, the score bug was restructured as a horizontal header positioned at the top of the screen, and was simpler than later versions. It was first utilized that year on Fox's NASCAR coverage with the introduction of a new updated graphics package that was based on the 1998 design; the bug and updated graphics were then utilized on the network's Major League Baseball and NFL telecasts. It featured a translucent black rectangle, a baseball diamond graphic for baseball broadcasts on the far left, the team abbreviations in white with their scores in yellow boxes, then the quarter or inning, time or number of outs, pitch count/speed, and the logo of the Fox Sports event property whose game is being telecast on the far right.

2003–2006

Beginning with the 2003 NFL season, the score bug was upgraded as part of a new graphics package. At first, the team abbreviations were replaced with team logos, and the scores were rendered in white within black parallelograms. Unlike the previous version, the FoxBox would alternate between a black rectangle and several black parallelograms; however, it reverted to being a black rectangle beginning with the 2004 NFL season, and the team logos would later be replaced with abbreviations in the respective teams' primary colors. Whenever a team scores a point or a run, the team's score and logo would flash a few times.
During baseball broadcasts, the entire bug would flash with the words "HOME RUN" and the team's name in the team's color zooming in to the center from both left and right. In late 2005, a new white bug resembling a chrome finish was introduced, and the team abbreviations became rendered in white letters in the team's main color; the new bug debuted on Fox's coverage of the 2005 World Series, and would then be expanded to NFL and NASCAR broadcasts. Baseball broadcasts continued to use the 2001 score bugs and graphics in 2004 until the network's coverage of that year's postseason.
During NASCAR telecasts from 2007 to 2011, this graphics package was briefly used to weather delay updates and also used for merchandise for the Digger cam. This graphics package was also used during Prelude to the Dream at Eldora from 2005 to 2007.

2006–2010

Beginning with the 2006 NFL season, the score bug was upgraded again. This time, real-time scores from around the league were included as a permanent fixture on the extreme right side of the bar, while the bug's coloring changed to the colors of the team currently in possession of the ball. The bug no longer flashed after the scoring of runs, touchdowns or field goals. During baseball broadcasts, the diamond graphic appeared in middle-justification and was slimmed down to just the three main bases, unlike other implements which included home plate. This bug, after first being used for NFL broadcasts in 2006, was eventually expanded to Bowl Championship Series, NASCAR and MLB; baseball telecasts, however, continued to use the late-2005 score bugs and graphics in 2007. In 2008, Fox NASCAR introduced a new camera embedded between turns one and two on the various tracks; it was soon known as "Digger Cam", unveiled alongside a gopher mascot named Digger.
In 2009, this graphics package was dropped entirely for Fox's baseball telecasts and replaced with the then-current Fox Sports Net graphics, which had debuted on baseball telecasts across FSN's affiliates that season. The score bug reverted to a rectangular box positioned in the top-left corner of the 4:3 safe area. These were later repositioned for widescreen in July 2010, when Fox Sports began presenting all of its high definition programming content in the 16:9 aspect ratio, with letterboxing on standard definition feeds relayed to pay television providers.

2010–2014

At the beginning of the 2010 NFL pre-season, Fox debuted a new graphics package for its football coverage – an upgraded version of the 2006 design with a "much more colorful 3D look." The new graphics also marked a migration to Vizrt hardware for CG, providing producers with a more streamlined workflow for graphics. The new design would be rolled out for Fox's racing coverage and the Speed network in 2011, at the start of the 2011 MLB season, and on Fox Soccer.

2014–2017

A new graphics package for Fox Sports broadcasts was introduced for Fox's NASCAR coverage leading up to the 2014 Daytona 500. Fox Sports Midwest producer Max Leinwand described the look as being "cleaner" than the previous design. The design has also been used to introduce new design conventions for some of Fox's graphics; for NASCAR, the running order ticker was replaced by a leaderboard-style display that was initially displayed as a vertical sidebar. MLB uses a score bug at the bottom-right of the screen instead of the top-left, while NFL utilized a top-left score bug with a vertical layout.

2017–2020

A new graphics package was launched on August 27, 2017, for Fox's first NFL preseason broadcast, featuring a dark flat design scheme, and shifting football to a horizontal score banner along the bottom of the screen. Upon its debut, the new football score bug was widely panned by viewers for its basic appearance and small text size. This package was also adopted by Big Ten Network, and was deployed for MLB coverage on Fox and FS1 starting with the 2017 MLB postseason. Fox continues to use Vizrt software, and began to increasingly utilize laptops to run its on-air graphics as opposed to full systems. The introduction of the package to NASCAR for the 2018 season saw Fox once again adopt a vertical leaderboard for the running order, initially within an opaque sidebar before switching to a translucent design for the Daytona 500.

2020–present

In a move to give its individual properties distinct brands, Fox began to phase the 2017 graphics out in 2020, in favor of bespoke graphics packages for each of its major properties. The first of these packages for football debuted at Super Bowl LIV in February 2020, which featured a theme based on parallelograms, a centered, pod-like scoreboard, and stylized illustrations of key players. It was adopted full-time by subsequent football telecasts, including the subsequent XFL and 2020 NFL and college football seasons.
New graphics were adopted by further properties beginning in 2021, including Major League Baseball, college basketball, and NASCAR. In 2023, Fox adopted a "modernized" update to the NFL graphics at Super Bowl LVII, college football diverged with a new theme, and NHRA coverage debuted new graphics during the U.S. Nationals. A new graphics package for collegiate Olympic sports by Drive Studios also debuted in 2024; it was developed primarily for Big Ten Network, and replaces the 2017 graphics on BTN properties outside of basketball and football.

Public service

In February 2008, Fox Sports announced a new charitable foundation called Fox Sports Supports, which provides grants and marketing support for health-related causes. Each organization is tied to a specific events package seen on Fox Sports.
The following are the charities supported during the history of the program:

2008–2009 cycle (began with 2008 Daytona 500)

NASCAR on Fox: Autism SpeaksMLB on Fox: Make-A-Wish FoundationNFL on Fox: Children's Health FundFox College Football: Alzheimer's Association

2009–2010 cycle (began with 2009 Daytona 500)

NASCAR on Fox: Susan G. Komen for the CureMLB on Fox: The Michael J. Fox FoundationNFL on Fox: City of Hope National Medical CenterFox College Football: Malaria No More

Gambling

In May 2019, amid the state-by-state legalization of sports betting in the United States following the repeal of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, Fox Corporation entered into a joint venture with The Stars Group to develop gaming products under the brand Fox Bet. They included free-to-play games such as Fox Bet Super 6, and a real-money mobile sportsbook operating in several states where they are legal. The services and games were co-promoted on Fox Sports properties, including the Fox Sports 1 studio program Fox Bet Live. As part of the agreement, Fox Corporation acquired a 4.99% stake in The Stars Group, which was later acquired by Flutter Entertainment. Fox holds a 2.6% minority stake in Flutter, and was given an option to acquire up to 18.5% of its U.S. division FanDuel in 2021.
On July 30, 2023, it was announced that Fox Corporation and Flutter would close down their Fox Bet platform in a phased closure, starting the next day and ending on August 31. As part of the deal, Fox Corporation retained future use of the Fox Bet brand and relaunched Fox Bet Super 6 later in the year under the name Fox Super 6; this version was exclusive to the Fox Sports website and mobile app. Although not exactly confirmed, it was likely that Fox Corporation didn't exercise a right to acquire up to 50% of The Stars Group on the condition it was licensed, allowing themselves and Flutter to shut down Fox Bet in August 2023.

Programming issues

Although the amount of sports content on the network has gradually expanded since Fox Sports was founded in 1994, Fox's sports schedule on weekend afternoons has remained very inconsistent to this day as the majority of its sports contracts are with professional leagues and collegiate conferences associated with more widely known sporting events, with very limited supplementary coverage of amateur, extreme or winter sports that can be aired during the daytime even when major events are not broadcast – leaving absences in daytime sports coverage on either a Saturday, a Sunday or both on certain weeks. Syndicated programming and/or infomercials scheduled by the network's owned-and-operated stations and affiliates, as well as occasional Fox Sports-produced specials and Fox-supplied preview specials for upcoming primetime shows fill Fox stations' weekend afternoon schedules on days with limited to no sports programming.
Some of the network's sports telecasts delay or outright pre-empt regularly scheduled local evening newscasts on Fox stations due to typical overruns past a set time block or pre-determined later start times; a few Fox affiliates that maintain news departments have opted not to air or have cancelled early evening newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays due to frequent sports preemptions in that daypart, while others instead reschedule their weekend early evening news programs to an earlier timeslot if possible when Fox is scheduled to air an evening game or race.
Conversely, some Fox Sports programming is delayed for later airing for several reasons. WSVN in Miami traditionally delays Fox Sports' Sunday lower-tier racing programming to late night in order to maintain their revenue on Sunday afternoons for paid programming, while several stations often disregarded the pregame shows for the 2018 FIFA World Cup to reduce schedule disruption. In November 2018, WITI in Milwaukee opted to move the final of that year's Las Vegas Invitational college basketball tournament on that year's Black Friday to their secondary Antenna TV subchannel in order to avert disruption to their news schedule before a primetime airing of that year's Apple Cup football game. Fox's NFL Kickoff, preceding Fox NFL Sunday, is often aired on a secondary subchannel in several markets due to both official team programming and E/I programming burdens needing to be satisfied by Fox affiliates.
As is done with CBS, Fox offers a flex schedule for its NFL and Major League Baseball telecasts, featuring a selection of up to four games that vary on a regional basis, allowing either one or two consecutive telecasts to air on a given day depending on the Fox station's designated market.

Programs throughout the years

Current broadcast rights

; NFL on Fox
; MLB on Fox
; Fox College Football Big Noon Kickoff Big Noon Saturday
; Fox College Hoops
; Motorsport
; NASCAR on Fox
; IndyCar Series on Fox
; Other motorsport events
; Fox Soccer
; Horse Racing
; Other

Former broadcast rights

NHL on Fox Fox College Football
; Motorsports
; Soccer
Pro wrestling

Notable personalities

Current

Play-by-play

NFL on Fox – Kevin Burkhardt, Joe Davis, Adam Amin, Kenny Albert, Kevin Kugler, Chris Myers, Brandon Gaudin, Alex Faust, Tim BrandoMLB on Fox – Joe Davis, Adam Amin, Jason Benetti, Kenny Albert, Aaron Goldsmith, Brandon Gaudin, Kevin Kugler, Connor Onion, Jeff Levering, Eric Collins, Trent RushIndyCar Series on Fox – Will BuxtonNASCAR on Fox – Mike Joy, Jamie LittleFox College Football – Gus Johnson, Jason Benetti, Tim Brando, Connor Onion, Eric Collins, Trent Rush, Dan Hellie, Chris MyersFox College Hoops – Gus Johnson, Jason Benetti, Tim Brando, Kevin Kugler, Scott Graham, Eric Collins, Brian Anderson, Joe Davis, Aaron Goldsmith, Brandon Gaudin, Adam Amin, Alex Faust, Jeff Levering, Kevin Burkhardt, Lisa Byington, Dave Sims, John Fanta, Kevin Fitzgerald, Wayne Randazzo, Benjamin Bernard, Matt Schumacker, Cindy Brunson, Guy Haberman, Greg Heister, Mark Clark, Pat O'Keefe, J.B Long, Chris Vosters, Jenny Cavnar, Connor Onion, Jason Ross Jr. Joe Rawson, Lane Grindle, Trent Rush, Derek Clark, John Ramey, David Gascon, Jacob Tobey, Darron Sutton, Matt Neverett, Sloane Martin, Greg Mescall, Ari Wolfe, Dan Hellie, Tim Neverett, Cory Provus, Jordan Kent, Rich Waltz, Chris Myers, Rich Cellini, Kenny Albert, AJ Kanell, Jack Kizer, Emmanuel Berbari, Jason Horowitz, Noah Reed, Nick Koop, Paul Dottino, Dan Kolko, Bob Brainerd, Jake Elsenberg, Alex Cohen, Kylen Mills, Carlo Jimenez, Gary Apple, Jake Marsh

Analysts

NFL on Fox – Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Michael Strahan, Rob Gronkowski, Jay Glazer, Charles Woodson, Julian Edelman, Tom Brady, Greg Olsen, Drew Brees, Jonathan Vilma, Daryl Johnston, Mark Schlereth, Brady Quinn, Matt Millen, Mike Pereira, Dean Blandino MLB on Fox – John Smoltz, Tom Verducci, A. J. Pierzynski, Adam Wainwright, Eric Karros, Dontrelle Willis, Alex Rodriguez, David Ortiz, Nick Swisher, Derek Jeter, Mark SweeneyIndyCar Series on Fox – James Hinchcliffe, Townsend BellNASCAR on Fox – Clint Bowyer, Larry McReynolds, Michael Waltrip, Todd Bodine, Jamie McMurray, Phil Parsons, Kevin Harvick, Trevor BayneFox College Football – Joel Klatt, Robert Griffin III, Devin Gardner, Mark Helfrich, Spencer Tillman, Robert Smith, Petros Papadakis, Brady Quinn, Matt Leinart, Mark Ingram II, Urban Meyer, Emmanuel Acho, Chris Petersen, Mike Pereira, Dean Blandino Fox College Hoops – Jim Jackson, Tarik Turner, Bill Raftery, Stephen Bardo, Brian Finneran, Isiah Thomas, Steve Smith, Dino Gaudio, Robbie Hummel, Donny Marshall, Nick Bahe, Doug Gottlieb, Sarah Kustok, Dickey Simpkins, Casey Jacobsen, Vin Parise, Jim Spanarkel, Stephen Howard, Danny Manning, Jess Settles, Bill Herenda, Richie Schueler, Freddie Schulz, Kim Adams, Austin Johnson, Megan McKeown, Matt Muehlebach, Mike DeCourcy, KJ Smith, Lamar Hurd, Dave Miller, LaVall Jordan, Terrence Oglesby, LaPhonso Ellis, Dan Dickau, Brian Butch, Joe Cravens, Devin Harris, John Giannini, Kris Jenkins, Jordan Taylor, Trent Meacham, LaChina Robinson, Darren Collison, Christy Winters-Scott, Debbie Antonelli, Nik Stauskas, Kevin O'Neill, Don MacLean, Ernie Kent, Ben Braun, Sean Elliott, Mary Murphy, Ashley Battle, Tammy Blackburn, Phil Martelli, Wesley Matthews, Elise Woodward, Rapheal Davis, Angela Taylor, Joan Bonvicini, Randy Foye, Miles Simon, Earl Watson, Isis YoungFox Soccer – Stuart Holden, Tony Meola, Aly Wagner, Cobi Jones, Landon Donovan, Warren Barton, Mariano Trujillo, Alexi Lalas, Maurice Edu, Rodney Wallace, Carli Lloyd, Heather O'Reilly, Danielle Slaton, Lori Lindsey, Melissa Ortiz, Leslie Osborne, Devon Kerr, Joe Machnik, Mark Clattenburg

Reporters

NFL on Fox – Erin Andrews, Tom Rinaldi, Pam Oliver, Kristina Pink, Megan Olivi, Allison Williams, Jen Hale, Sarah KustokMLB on Fox – Ken Rosenthal, Tom Verducci, Tom Rinaldi NASCAR on Fox – Jamie Little, Regan Smith, Jamie Howe, Josh Sims, Amanda Busick, Kaitlyn Vincie, Todd BodineIndyCar Series on Fox – Jack Harvey, Georgia Henneberry, Kevin Lee, Jamie LittleFox College Football – Jenny Taft, Alexa Landestoy, Josh Sims, Tom RinaldiFox College Hoops – Allison Williams Fox Soccer – Jenny Taft, Rodolfo Landeros, Alex Curry

Studio hosts

NFL on Fox – Curt Menefee, Charissa ThompsonMLB on Fox – Kevin Burkhardt, Chris Myers, Mike HillNASCAR on Fox – Chris Myers, Kaitlyn VincieBig Noon Kickoff – Rob Stone, Mike HillFox College Hoops – Rob Stone, Kevin Burkhardt, Mike Hill, Jenny TaftFox Soccer – Rob Stone, Jules Breach, Jenny Taft, Rodolfo LanderosIndyCar Series on Fox – Chris Myers

Former

Play-by-play

NFL on Fox – Joe Buck, Pat Summerall, Kevin Harlan, Mike Breen, Steve Buckhantz, Eric Clemons, Paul Kennedy, Steve Grad, Tim Ryan, Ray Bentley, Josh Lewin, Scott Graham, Doug Bell, Drew Goodman, Nick Halling, Dan Miller, Ron Pitts, Dave Pasch, Kevin Slaten, Spero Dedes, Matt Vasgersian, Craig Shemon, Carter Blackburn, Brad Sham, Dan McLaughlin, Matt Devlin, Steve Byrnes, Chris Rose, Craig Bolerjack, Tom McCarthy, Mike Goldberg, Matt Smith, Thom Brennaman, Sam Rosen, Dick Stockton, Gus Johnson, Alex Faust

Analysts

NFL on Fox – Troy Aikman, Cris Collinsworth, John Madden, Bill Maas, Chad Pennington, Brian Billick, Tim Ryan, John Lynch, Donovan McNabb, Charles Davis, Chris Spielman, Tony Gonzalez, Aqib Talib, Sean Payton, Michael Vick, Jimmy Johnson, Peter Schrager, Mark Sanchez

Reporters

NFL on Fox – Ron Pitts, Tony Siragusa, D. J. Johnson, Matt Millen, Laura Okmin

Studio hosts

NFL on Fox – James Brown

Presidents

Other media

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Outside the United States

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