Fox Sports Wisconsin
| Fox Sports Wisconsin | |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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
- Jim Paschke: play-by-play announcer
- Jon McGlocklin: analyst
- Craig Coshun: Bucks Live host
- Tony Smith: Bucks Live analyst
- Jeff Grayson: Bucks Live host
[edit] Milwaukee Brewers telecast
- Brian Anderson: play-by-play announcer
- Bill Schroeder: in-game color analyst
- Craig Coshun: Brewers Live host; play-by-play announcer
- Davey Nelson: Brewers Live analyst
- Jeff Grayson: Brewers Live host
- Jerry Augustine: Brewers Live analyst
- Telly Hughes: field reporter
[edit] Teams
Fox Sports Wisconsin is the cable television home to several professional and college teams.
- Milwaukee Bucks (exclusive to the network starting with the 2007–08 season)
- Minnesota Wild (2000-) (through Fox Sports North)
NCAA Division I athletics
- Wisconsin Badgers (via Fox/Big Ten Conference-owned Big Ten Network; BTN game rebroadcasts and coaches shows only)
- Big East, Big 12 and Pac 12 football and basketball (through FSN and ESPN Plus)
- WCHA Hockey
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)
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