Fox Sports Wisconsin

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Fox Sports Wisconsin
Fox Sports Wisconsin logo
Launched 2007
Network Fox Sports Net
Owned by News Corp
Country United States
Language English
Broadcast area Wisconsin
Eastern Minnesota
Western U.P. of Michigan
Northwestern Illinois
Iowa
Nationwide via satellite
Formerly called Wisconsin Sports Network (1996–1998)
Replaced Fox Sports North (in Wisconsin only)
Sister channel(s) Fox Sports North
Website foxsportswisconsin.com
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV 669 (SD)
669-1 (HD)
Cable
Available on most cable systems in Wisconsin
Eastern Minnesota
Northwestern U.P. of Michigan
Northwestern Illinois
Iowa
Check local listings for channels

Fox Sports Wisconsin (stylized as FS WISCONSIN) is a regional sports network serving the state of Wisconsin. Originally the "Wisconsin" sub-feed of Fox Sports North, the network officially became Fox Sports Wisconsin on April 1, 2007 with its own feed originating from facilities in Milwaukee; the network had formerly been based at Fox O&O WITI (Channel 6)'s studios in Brown Deer before that station was sold to Local TV LLC in 2008. Fox Sports Wisconsin is an owned and operated affiliate of Fox Sports Net. FS Wisconsin is the cable home of the Milwaukee Brewers and Milwaukee Bucks.

Due to lack of bandwidth, DirecTV still treats Fox Sports Wisconsin as a subfeed and only turns it on for live games, usually those of the Brewers and Bucks.

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[edit] History

The first regional sports network in the state was a gametime-only network broadcasting Milwaukee Brewers baseball and Milwaukee Bucks basketball games called Wisconsin Sports Network. Its parent companies were Milwaukee's Time-Warner franchise and Group W. However, in 1996, it was taken over by the Minneapolis based Midwest Sports Channel, which was owned by WCCO-TV (Channel 4) in Minneapolis and CBS Cable after the merger between CBS and Westinghouse. Shortly thereafter, MSC became an affiliate of the fledgling Fox Sports Net in the fall of 1996, ultimately changing its name to FSN North after the network's sale to Fox in 2000, in time for the network's name to change in April 2001.

From 1996–2007, Wisconsin was served by one of three regional subfeeds of FSN North; the other two being a feed for the Twin Cities metro area and a feed for the rest of Minnesota as well as Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. Fox Sports Wisconsin was launched on April 1, 2007, to coincide with the start of the Brewers season.

[edit] Programming

Currently, Fox Sports Wisconsin's programming includes Brewers, Bucks, and Minnesota Wild pregame, postgame, and fan shows, along with some of WITI's Packer analysis shows and WIAA competitions, weekend outdoors programming, and many of Fox Sports's national programs, including The Final Score and The Dan Patrick Show. A reduced schedule of Wild hockey also airs Fox Sports Wisconsin through Fox Sports North. Since the 2007 baseball season, Fox Sports Wisconsin has sub-licensed fifteen Brewers games to air on Milwaukee's WMLW (Channel 41), producing the broadcasts and airing them on Fox Sports Wisconsin outside of the Milwaukee market, while WMLW sold ads on those telecasts.[1] It also airs NCAA competitions of the Big East Conference, Big Ten Conference and the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The Milwaukee Time-Warner franchise has run Time Warner Sports Milwaukee since 2006, which competes with Fox Sports Wisconsin on Time Warner's Southeastern Wisconsin systems and is now the major rights holder to Marquette University sports. However while FS Wisconsin has almost universal statewide coverage across the major cable/satellite/telco TV providers, TWS Milwaukee is limited to only Time Warner systems at this time.

[edit] Fox Sports Wisconsin HD

Fox Sports Wisconsin HD is a 720p high definition simulcast of Fox Sports Wisconsin. All Bucks and Brewers games are aired in HD, as well as national FSN programs.

[edit] On-air staff

[edit] Milwaukee Bucks telecast

[edit] Milwaukee Brewers telecast

[edit] Teams

Fox Sports Wisconsin is the cable television home to several professional and college teams.

Major League Baseball

NBA

  • Milwaukee Bucks (exclusive to the network starting with the 2007–08 season)

NHL

NCAA Division I athletics

NCAA Division III athletics

High School athletics

  • WIAA Wisconsin State Tournaments (exclusive rights to all but the state football and basketball championships, which air over a local broadcast station network)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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