Fans want Vin Scully to call World Series

Joe Buck will be replaced in the FOX broadcast booth if some fans have any say. Continue reading →

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June 23, 2011, 9:14 am

Former Jets star lands FOX TV deal?

Chad Pennington is taking a year off the NFL to take his talents to the broadcast booth. Continue reading →

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June 19, 2011, 8:24 am

NASCAR viewership improves?

Stock car racing has seen its popularity rise on television. Continue reading →

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June 10, 2011, 5:40 am

MLB can’t beat Cops, America’s Most Wanted

FOX won the ratings battle with its coverage of the Cubs-Red Sox game on Sunday night, plus regional action. Continue reading →

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May 23, 2011, 2:16 pm

Fox’s Gus Johnson called unprepared self-promoter

FOX Sports is paying Gus Johnson big money to call Pac-12 football and basketball games for the next few years, but that doesn’t mean he’s avoided criticism. Continue reading →

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May 13, 2011, 9:22 am

Texas-San Antonio football team gets reality TV series

Former Miami coach Larry Coker doesn’t strike most as a reality TV show kind of guy, but he’ll be soon staring in one. Continue reading →

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May 10, 2011, 5:15 am

Gus Johnson dumped by CBS

Gus Johnson, an internet folk hero for his play-by-play work, won’t be working games for CBS Sports anymore. Continue reading →

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May 5, 2011, 6:02 pm

FOX sportscasting star has vocal illness

Joe Buck has been dealing with a sickness thats impacting his TV work. Continue reading →

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April 22, 2011, 11:03 am

NHL might get $150 million TV rights deal?

The National Hockey League could be back in the money with its new television contract. Continue reading →

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April 14, 2011, 10:36 pm

ESPN exec trashes NBC’s out of date Olympic programming

ESPN is bidding to land Olympic TV rights along with FOX. Continue reading…

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April 8, 2011, 9:26 am

A-Rod never bitched about Super Bowl popcorn

Joe Buck says gossip reports about Alex Rodriguez’s unhappiness with his Super Bowl popcorn meal are bogus. Continue reading…

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April 4, 2011, 12:13 am

WWE teams up with American Idol?

The marketing guys at WWE took advantage of an American Idol contestant to promote its brand. Continue reading…

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April 1, 2011, 5:56 pm

FOX Cartoon takes cheap shot at Cowboys

Homer Simpson’s family apparently unloaded on the $1.3 billion Cowboys Stadium. DALLAS MORNING NEWS reports the FOX cartoon goofed on the size of some LARGE stadiums around the NFL, none of course bigger than in North Texas. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO

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March 29, 2011, 8:34 am

Fox Sports personality to host MLB Network talk show

Chris Rose has been tapped as host of a new talk show coming to the MLB Network. Continue reading…

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March 24, 2011, 9:21 am

Lawrence Taylor explains sex arrest

Lawrence Taylor tried to do the near impossible, explain how he ended up in bed with a teenage hooker. Continue reading…

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March 22, 2011, 7:14 pm

FOX locks up NASCAR broadcaster

Darrell Waltrip is going to continue on as the lead analyst of NASCAR coverage on FOX. Continue reading…

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March 7, 2011, 10:37 pm

Tim McCarver won’t be leaving FOX

Love him or hate him, Tim McCarver is going to continue on FOX’s MLB coverage for the next few years. Continue reading…

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March 7, 2011, 6:38 pm

MLB rejects Dodgers $200 million loan

Major League Baseball has denied a $200 million loan from FOX to the Los Angeles Dodgers Continue reading…

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February 25, 2011, 8:49 am

NASCAR animated gopher mascot dumped

Fox Sports chairman David Hill explains why Digger, the animated gopher, won’t pop up on Fox’s NASCAR coverage this season. Continue reading…

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February 18, 2011, 9:04 am

FOX will make NASCAR glow

Fox will make cars glow. As of Thursday the network hadn’t settled on a color scheme. Continue reading…

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February 18, 2011, 8:05 am

Source: ESPN won’t pay for Pac-12 football deal

According to my sources, there is no indication that ESPN will be willing to pay what the Pac-12 wants or provide the exposure opportunities the Pac-12 is seeking. Continue reading…

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February 17, 2011, 6:54 am

MLB getting expanded prime-time network TV coverage

Fox this season will expand its experiment in Saturday prime-time baseball. In Fox MLB scheduling to be formally announced today, the network has three consecutive Saturday nights of regionalized coverage Continue reading…

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February 14, 2011, 10:11 am

Cubs getting lots of TV exposure

At least nine Chicago Cubs games will air nationally as part of Fox’s “Game of the Week” lineup, including three consecutive Saturdays in May and three in June Continue reading…

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February 11, 2011, 6:52 am

Fox Soccer gets record ratings

Fox Soccer set a network record last Sunday — 418,000 viewers and 285,000 households for the Chelsea vs. Liverpool match, beating the 403,000 who tuned into Chelsea vs. Arsenal on Super Bowl Sunday in 2010. — NY Post

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February 10, 2011, 8:08 am

A-Rod goes ballistic on FOX for Super Bowl popcorn shot?

A few Fox honchos’ ears were burning Sunday night in Dallas — and it had nothing to do with the action on the Cowboys Stadium field. Turns out Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez wanted to slug a few folks after he spotted himself and his girlfriend Cameron Diaz being shown to the 111 million people watching the game. READ MORE…

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February 8, 2011, 9:32 am

300lb NFL Broadcaster gets wax replica

Dept. of Can’t Make This Stuff Up: In conjunction with the Super Bowl, Madame Tussaud’s wax museum in Dallas last week unveiled a wax replica of FOX’s Tony “Goose” Siragusa. — NY Post

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February 7, 2011, 8:05 am

NFL broadcaster admits he’s “just not into X’s and O’s”

Fox’s Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long are TV anomalies — they’ve been in the same roles for 17 years — and are ex-NFL stars who know football isn’t what drives their top-rated NFL studio show. READ MORE

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February 4, 2011, 8:58 am

Fox chairman credits NFL’s secret weapon for TV ratings

Fox Sports Media Group chairman David Hill has several theories about how the NFL has gotten a stranglehold on television. READ MORE

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February 4, 2011, 8:16 am

Former boss says he WON’T rehire ‘impossible former SportsCenter anchor Keith Olbermann

Looks like you can scratch Fox off the list of Keith Olbermann’s possible employers after leaving MSNBC. Continue reading…

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February 2, 2011, 5:31 pm

TV exec says NFL is Cirque du Soleil with violence

Fox Sports Chairman David Hill on the NFL’s TV appeal: “It’s like Cirque du Soleil with violence. It’s a beautiful thing.” — USA Today

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January 31, 2011, 8:14 am

Celebrities excited about FOX Super Bowl gift bags

Studio show producer Scott Ackerson on Fox having a celeb red-carpet show in its Super Bowl pregame after doing it once before: “It’s amazing the amount of stars who want to be part of it now that they’ve seen (one), as opposed to the first time when it was really hard to get people to show up.” Fox had to prove it knew gift bags. — USA Today

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January 31, 2011, 5:15 am

FOX exec goofs on Brett Favre

Fox Sports President Eric Shanks on the idea of Fox hiring Brett Favre as a studio analyst: “At the end of every show we’d beg him to come back the next week. Millions would tune in just to see if he did.” — USA Today

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January 28, 2011, 8:56 am

Terry Bradshaw to call plays during Pro Bowl

In addition to using helmet cams on players and miking players and coaches, Fox’s Pro Bowl on Sunday (7 p.m. ET) will allow Terry Bradshaw to call plays, an adventure in itself. — USA Today

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January 28, 2011, 8:55 am

FOX’s Bill O’Reilly makes Super Bowl pick

Political commentator Bill O’Reilly picked the Packers to beat the Steelers, 28-17, in the Super Bowl on Feb. 6. “I think Green Bay’s got it,” O’Reilly said. “I think Green Bay is going to get to Big Ben, the defense is going to get to him. That’ll be the difference in the game.” O’Reilly made his prediction at the end of “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel on Wednesday night, when he was talking with comedian Dennis Miller, who appears regularly on the show. — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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January 28, 2011, 3:40 am

Fox Interactive Office to sell for $300M

In one of the biggest real estate deals in Los Angeles in years, the asset management arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay about $300 million for a large office development in Playa Vista that is leased by Fox Interactive Media, the News Corp. unit that includes MySpace, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the transaction. The sale of the 501,000-square-foot, two-building complex at 12121 and 12181 Bluff Creek Drive by Lincoln Property Co. and ASB Real Estate Investments breaks down to a robust price of about $599 per square foot. The deal for the property, called the Horizon at Playa Vista and located in the recently developed office portion of the Playa Vista community, went under contract in late December and is expected to close next week. — Hollywood Reporter

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January 27, 2011, 6:38 am

Helmet-cam returning to NFL

Fox’s Pro Bowl Sunday might produce an audition tape for an adventurous old TV camera to use for a comeback: the helmet-cam. That tiny camera years ago gave viewers a first-person take on, say, having your head slammed into the turf. Though not yet formally announced, Fox Sports president Eric Shanks says, “We have guys who’ve agreed to wear HD-cam helmets.” The exhibition game also allows Fox to mike at least 10 players and coaches — with some audio live — and let studio analyst Terry Bradshaw serve as a game analyst. And if Fox’s helmet-cams Sunday produce compelling footage of heads being stomped by cleats at the bottom of pileups, might the NFL next season allow them in its real games? “If it were up to all the NFL’s TV partners, we’d like to see that,” says Shanks. “Maybe this gets that rolling. We don’t hold out much hope.” — USA Today

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January 26, 2011, 9:28 am