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FOX SPORTS, TBS Re-ups with MLB until 2021

Question is, will Tim McCarver still have anything left come 2021? :eek:
 
DToTheJ said:
Question is, will Tim McCarver still have anything left come 2021? :eek:
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I seriously doubt it.

With the way things are going with the Boston Red Sox right now, I wouldn't be surprised that they offer Bobby Valentine as the next-in-line analyst, if and when they do replace McCarver by then.

To me the biggest loser of the deal is going be NASCAR fans that have watched SPEED all those years, as it looks like they will convert it to an ALL SPORTS

FOX Channel to compete with ESPN, NBC, and CBS.
 
NBC put a bid on the table but came up short, sources said.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/busine...b_rights_juWQIT0LHQWoZ0V52SVxLJ#ixzz270WgR7Bk

It would make some sense for Fox to convert SPEED, being that they now hold rights to games from Pac 12, Big 12, FIFA World Cup, EPL, UEFA Champions League and Europa League, along with more games from Major League Baseball. I would think they want to shift content from F/X, leaving that a strictly-general entertainment channel. Question now is what might happen to their minor channels like Fuel, FSC, FS+, etc..


Original SportsBusiness Daily article:
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Closing-Bell/2012/09/19/MLB-TV.aspx
 
Fox has done a decent job with MLB.

Sad thing for MLB is that neither NBC or CBS were willing to offer enough to take it away.
 
here is what In my opinion will happen :

SPEED to be morphed into the new FOX SPORTS 1 (gee where'd I see that before , oh yea AUSTRALIA's Fox Sports 1)

Now here is where it gets tricky:
1) Speed will morph with FUELtv to be called THE Racing Channel
or
2) Fox Sports Plus gets renamed SPEED, & FUELtv will be left as is

Likely i'd look for #1 to be the most popular course to go
 
DToTheJ said:
Question is, will Tim McCarver still have anything left come 2021? :eek:
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He hasn't had anything left since about 1982. In fact, I'm not sure if he ever had anything to begin with. ;D
 
I am surprised that Fox is keeping one of the League Championship Series.

I expected that the LCS Fox now airs would have been moved to TBS or ESPN.

Although the article didn't mention it, I suspect that Fox's Saturday baseball will be mostly in prime-time. I can see Fox
's regular-season baseball schedule be 19 or 20 weeks of prime-time Saturday games (each week, with one or two pre-emptions for MMA events, from the start of the season through August) with a couple of Saturday-afternoon telecasts at the end of the regular-season to cover games impacting pennant and wild-card races.
 
John Miller,Joe Morgan,Jim Kaat,Tom V.,Kevin Millar or so on from FX/MLB Network.

Fuel TV becomes Auto Racing Channel,Fox Soccer Channel becomes MLS Channel because we have other Soccer Channels for Overseas Teams and also FOX will do a channel called Fox Sporting News to complete with ESPNNEWS and be Sporting News 24/7.

I can also see Baseball Games on the new Fox Sports Channel with Tuesday's being Fan Night Choice and also on a show like NBA Coast to Coast/MLB Tonight,NHL Tonight and a Sportscenter type show.
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
So, all you Buck & McCarver haters, who would you rather see broadcasting the games?!?!?
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Dan McLaughlin (of the Cardinals) and Ozzie Guillien (of the Miami Marlins)
 
Ken Fang has done a nice breakdown of the particulars of the new TV contracts.

http://fangsbites.com/2012/09/a-look-at-the-new-mlb-tv-deals/

Fuel TV becomes Auto Racing Channel,Fox Soccer Channel becomes MLS Channel because we have other Soccer Channels for Overseas Teams and also FOX will do a channel called Fox Sporting News to complete with ESPNNEWS and be Sporting News 24/7.
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I don't know if NASCAR would sign off on building a new channel from the ground up when there's still Speed. They could also switch to NBC Sports Network for a few races, while renewing their TNT contract.

Depends on whether Fox will retain the EPL. They might end up needing FSC as a secondary outlet for if/when marquee games switch to Fox Sports One. Same with the Champions League and Europa League, not to mention the various World Cups, male and female, that start in 2015. Now Fox Soccer Plus...that's a question mark, depending on whether FSN would still be used as and outlet for CL and EL. MLS could simply buy up GolTV and rebrand that as their own channel. They'd have the revenue from the properties that channel has currently.

Didn't CNN try to program a sports news channel with Sports Illustrated? Could the time be right this time for a new competitor?
 
GOLTV is in Spanish. Yes CNN did as it did CNNFN but it didn't make it to and so hasen't CNBC World. At the Moment no changing Speed to an All Sports Channel but Fox does like it's Sports Channel Speed and Fuel.
 
Very interesting...

The first shoe dropped in late August, when ESPN signed a deal for “Sunday Night Baseball” plus Monday and Wednesday night games. ESPN agreed to pay double for the rights, increasing from $350 million to $700 million. ESPN, though, did not include any of the playoffs, other than one wild card game. When the ESPN deal was announced Aug. 28, it seemed the league would finalize the rest of its package within a week.

At the time, the league was locked into serious negotiations with Fox. Fox Sports’ top executives, co-presidents Randy Freer and Eric Shanks and executive vice president Larry Jones, flew home from New York to Los Angeles at the end of the week of Aug. 27 to ponder whether they should do the deal.

It appeared that Turner, which had carried the MLB playoffs since 2007 and has carried baseball games since the 1970s, was going to be left out. NBC also looked to be left without a package, because though it made an offer, MLB didn’t consider NBC a serious bidder after the ESPN deal was made public.

But Turner’s president of sales, distribution and sports, David Levy, wasn’t ready to give up.

Fox was dragging its feet at the cost of an all-in package, which would have cost it more than $800 million a year. The network talked about its plans to rebrand its motorsports channel Speed as an all-sports channel called Fox Sports One at some point before the 2014 MLB season. Fox executives felt like they needed programming that MLB had for such a channel, but they didn’t believe that they needed to buy both packages.

Meanwhile, Levy wanted to keep baseball on his network. He constantly lobbied Brosnan and his team about keeping the packages separate. He told them that Turner would not return as an interested bidder in 2021 if they didn’t at least retain their package. Plus, baseball had become important to Turner, particularly the postseason on TBS.

For Turner, it was an aggressive gamble Levy felt he had to make.

Cable operators pay Turner $1.21 per subscriber per month for TNT and 59 cents for TBS, according to numbers from SNL Kagan. Turner’s plans to increase that fee rest on keeping high-quality sports programming like the MLB playoffs in its lineup.

Turner also wanted to use baseball rights to seed Bleacher Report, the website company Turner bought in August for $175 million.

As Levy was making his argument, talks with NBC cooled. Sources said NBC did not make a strong offer, and that it was most interested in ESPN’s package, which includes exclusivity on Sunday night and the two midweek games. When ESPN took that package, NBC’s interest waned.

Levy eventually won over MLB executives, who were convinced that baseball’s rights would command a higher rights fee for two packages, rather than one. In the end, it was an easy decision to make, especially considering the long history TBS has with MLB, one that dates to 1973 when it started carrying Atlanta Braves games.

MLB eventually decided to split the packages and keep both Fox and Turner as partners.
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http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2012/09/24/Media/MLB-12B.aspx

NBC should've bid on the TBS package. Get back in the room. It is now NASCAR and hope that MLS and NHL get their acts together.
 
MLS is not in a Lockout. How about WNBA or Women's Soccer or Softball League or an Independent Baseball League?

On the Lights on NBCSP their is somebody talking in background a guy but you can't see him and Fox Sports Net's show at like 11pm was the same buy you could see the person.
 
Deal is official: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20121002&content_id=39362362&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb

Ken Feng again gives an updated summary of the games that are going to ESPN, Fox, Turner and MLB Network:

http://fangsbites.com/2012/10/wrapping-up-all-of-the-new-mlb-tv-deals-into-one/

The big takeaway is a Fox cable channel having 40 games a year and the number of broadcast games down to 12. I also read rumors that Fox is renewing their deal with NASCAR. No word on NASCAR's deal with ESPN and Turner.

Damn, NBC just continues their long losing streak. I was really hoping for a real alternative to the E-SPiN network. Now that looks to be Fox Sports 1 (or whatever the name would be). ::)
 
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