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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma () is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,687,050 residents in 2009 and a land area of 68,667 square miles (177,847 km²), Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state. The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning "red people", and is known informally by its nickname, The Sooner State. Formed by the combination of Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory on November 16, 1907, Oklahoma was the 46th state to enter the union. Its residents are known as Oklahomans, and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City.
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Texas
Texas () is the second-largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Fox Sports (United States)

Title	Fox Sports
Label2	Division of:
Data2	Fox Broadcasting Company
Label3	Key people:
Label4	Headquarters:
Data4	Los Angeles, CA
Label5	Major Broadcasting Contracts:
Data5	MLB NASCAR NFL Pac-12 Football
Label6	Parent:
Data6	News Corporation
Label7	Website:
Data7	FOXSports.com

Fox Sports is a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company (part of News Corporation). It was formed in 1994 with Fox's acquisition of broadcast rights to National Football League games. In subsequent years, it has televised the National Hockey League (1994–1999), Major League Baseball (1996–present), NASCAR (2001–present), Bowl Championship Series (2007–2010), and the UEFA Champions League final (2010-present). ‎

Exclusive coverage

Fox has become the exclusive home of the Daytona 500 after having alternated the event with NBC Sports throughout their first NASCAR contract. In partnership with co-owned motorsports cable network Speed, Fox has also broadcast the start of the Rolex 24 at Daytona and select Formula One races under Speed production since 2007, and also carries 2 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races per season transferred from Speed, produced under the NASCAR on Fox brand.

Fox Sports has been the exclusive broadcaster of the World Series since 2000. A new contract announced on July 11, 2006, guarantees that Fox Sports will keep the World Series through the 2013 season.

In 2010, Fox aired the UEFA Champions League Final, marking the network's first ever broadcast of soccer.

Regional sports coverage

Fox Sports Net operates as a regional sports network with broadcasting agreements that follow league market distribution rules. For example, cable and satellite subscribers in Texas receive Dallas Mavericks games on Fox Sports Southwest, while viewers in Oklahoma see Oklahoma City Thunder games on Fox Sports Oklahoma. The regionalized coverage frequently restricts broadcasts of live sporting events outside a team's home market.

Cable channels

In addition to the broadcast division, Fox owns numerous regional U.S. cable sports channels under the Fox Sports Net banner, among others. These cable channels also include:

Fox Soccer Channel which broadcasts the UEFA Champions League, Premier League, and Serie A among other competitions.

Fox Soccer Plus which airs additional soccer and rugby programming from around the world.

Speed Channel which provides additional NASCAR and F-1 coverage,

Big Ten Network which broadcasts sports and content from Big Ten Conference universities exclusively.

Fuel TV which airs action sports such as skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding, BMX and FMX.

Fox College Sports which airs additional college sports content from across the country on 3 cable channels (Fox College Sports Atlantic, Fox College Sports Central, and Fox College Sports Pacific), most produced by Fox Sports Net affiliates.

Fox Deportes which airs Spanish-language coverage of UEFA Champions League, Premiere League, and Serie A as well as Beach Soccer and the F.A. Cup. It also presents the Spanish-language Major League Baseball Game of the Week, the All Star Game, and the World Series, as well as division and league playoffs.

Graphics, scoring bugs and theme music

The graphics and scoring bugs have won awards and changed the face of sports broadcasting in the United States. The opening notes of the NFL broadcast theme can be heard in every iteration of other Fox Sports broadcast themes. When the scoring bugs are upgraded, the previous versions are retained for one of its other properties for about a year. However, this practice ended in 2009. The first score bug was used for Fox's NFL coverage, then was expanded to baseball and hockey broadcasts.

One segment of the theme, coincidentally or otherwise, echoes the notes for the "giddyup, giddyup, let's go" line from the song, "Sleigh Ride". During Christmas-season broadcasts, Fox Sports broadcasts will sometimes acknowledge this fact by seguéing from the one tune into the other as they break for a commercial.

Beginning in October 2010, the NFL broadcast theme became the theme for all Fox Sports properties beginning with the that year's NLCS and NASCAR with the 2011 Budweiser Shootout. It is yet unknown if this includes the FSN affiliates, as their basketball broadcasts continue to use their own theme music.

2001–2003

By 2001, the score bug became a banner at the top of the screen and was simpler than today's. It was first utilized on Fox's NASCAR coverage that year with a new updated graphics package based on the 1998 design; the banner and updated graphics were then utilized on the network's MLB and NFL telecasts. It featured a transparent black rectangle, a baseball diamond graphic for baseball broadcasts on the far left, the team abbreviations in white with their scores in yellow boxes; the boxes were white for NFL broadcasts until Super Bowl XXXVI, when the boxes became yellow, Then the quarter or inning, time or number of outs, pitch count/speed (baseball broadcasts), and the logo of that certain Fox program, such as NFL on Fox or MLB on Fox on the far right.

2003–2006

Beginning with the 2003 NFL season, the banner was upgraded. At first the team abbreviations were replaced with the team logos, and the scores were white in black parallelograms. Unlike the previous version, the FoxBox would alternate between a black rectangle and several black parallelograms; however, it returned to being a black rectangle beginning with the 2004 NFL season, and the team logos would be later replaced with the team abbreviations in their primary colors (the team abbreviations in the colors would first be utilized on postseason baseball broadcasts that year). Whenever a team scores a point or a run, the team's score and logo would flash a few times. On the baseball broadcasts, the whole banner would flash, then the words "HOME RUN" and the team's name in the team's color zoom in to the center from both left and right. In late 2005, a new white banner resembling a chrome finish was introduced, and the team abbreviations became white letters in the team's main color; the new banner would then be expanded to NFL and NASCAR broadcasts.

The baseball broadcasts continued to use the 2001 scoring banners and graphics in 2004 until the network's coverage of that year's postseason.

2006–2010

Beginning with the 2006 NFL season, the scoring banner was upgraded again. This time it featured the real-time scores as a permanent fixture on the extreme right side of the bar, while the coloring of the banner changed to the colors of the team currently possessing the ball (the coloring of the banner was only on football broadcasts). The banner no longer flashes after runs, touchdowns, or field goals have been scored. On the baseball broadcasts, the diamond graphic appeared to be in the middle and has been slimmed down to just the three main bases, unlike other implements which included home plate. This banner, after being first used for NFL broadcasts in 2006 was eventually expanded to BCS, NASCAR, and baseball broadcasts; the baseball broadcasts, however, continued to use the late-2005 scoring banners and graphics in 2007. In 2008, NASCAR on Fox introduced a new camera embedded between turns 1 and 2 on the various tracks; it was soon called "Digger Cam" and a mascot gopher was unveiled along with it. In the 2009 season, Fox's baseball broadcasts dropped the 2006 graphics package entirely and adopted the new Fox Sports Net graphics which had debuted on baseball broadcasts across FSN affiliates that season. These were later re-positioned for widescreen in July 2010 when all Fox Sports high definition programming began to be presented completely in the aspect ratio and letterboxed on standard definition feeds.

2010–present

At the beginning of the 2010 NFL pre-season, Fox's football coverage debuted a new updated graphics package based on the 2006 design. The broadcast also debuted a new style scoreboard for football, which now takes the form of a box with team logos positioned in the top left corner of the screen.

At the end of the 2010 MLB season, Fox began using its football theme music for its MLB broadcasts, angering many viewers. The change is being implemented for NASCAR broadcasts as well.

Fox adapted this presentation for its NASCAR coverage during the Budweiser Shootout. The new graphics also appear on SPEED.

At the start of the 2011 MLB season, both Fox and the regional FSN affiliates (except for the DirecTV networks now branded Root Sports and the Fox Sports South telecasts on Peachtree TV.) adopted this new look for baseball broadcasts.

HDTV coverage

Fox Sports began airing programs in 720p HDTV 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. Nearly all of Fox's Sports programming now airs in HD.

As of late July 2010, when Fox began to broadcast their sports programming with graphics optimized for 16:9 displays rather than the safe area, the network has asked cable and satellite providers to comply and use the #10 Active Format Description code they now send out over Fox programming, which has 16:9 content display in letterboxed mode on 4:3 screens (or to most viewers, the regular analog channel on their system), in concert with Fox's news operations also going to full widescreen presentation. This makes Fox the first American network to optimize their sports presentation for widescreen rather than the traditional 4:3 frame.

Public service

In February 2008, Fox Sports announced a new charitable foundation called Fox Supports, which will give 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 in the history of the program:

2008-09 cycle (began with 2008 Daytona 500)

NASCAR on Fox: Autism Speaks

MLB on Fox: Make-a-Wish Foundation

NFL on Fox: Children's Health Fund

BCS on Fox: Alzheimer's Association

2009-10 cycle (began with 2009 Daytona 500)

NASCAR on Fox: Susan J. Komen for the Cure

MLB on Fox: Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

NFL on Fox: City of Hope

BCS on Fox: Malaria No More

Programs throughout the years

Current broadcast rights

NFL on Fox (1994–present)

*Fox NFL Sunday, The OT

*Super Bowls XXXI, XXXIII, XXXVI, XXXIX, XLII, XLV, & XLVIII

Major League Baseball on Fox (1996–present)

* 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, & 2013 World Series

NASCAR on Fox (2001–present)

*2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, & 2011 Daytona 500

Fox Sports holds the exclusive broadcast rights of the Daytona 500 through 2014.

*Speed on Fox

Cotton Bowl Classic (1999–present)

Big Ten Football Championship Game (2011–2016)

Pac-12 Football (22 Games)

Pac-12 Championship Game (2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)

Pac-12 Men's Basketball Championship (2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024)

Formula One (2007–present): branded as Speed on FOX

UEFA Champions League Final (2010–present)

Former broadcast rights

NHL on Fox (1994–1999)

NFL Europe (1997–2005)

Horse Racing (1998–2000)

BCS on Fox (2007–2010)

Technological enhancements

FoxBox (sports)

FoxTrax

Major League Baseball on Fox - Innovations

Main competitors

ESPN on ABC

NBC Sports

CBS Sports

Cable offshoots

Fox College Sports

Fox Soccer Channel

Fox Sports Net

Fox Sports en Español

Fox Sports en Latinoamérica

Fox Sports World Canada

Speed Channel

Big Ten Network

Notes and references

External links

Fox Sports Website

Category:Sports television in the United States Category:Sports divisions of TV channels Category:1994 establishments in the United States

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