Fox Sports (USA)

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This article is about the Fox Broadcasting Company's sports division in the United States. For Fox Sports in Australia, see Fox Sports (Australia). For FSN (formerly Fox Sports Net), the regional sports network in the United States, see Fox Sports Net.

The Fox Sports logo used from 1999 to the present. Sometimes accompanied with searchlights, a typical Fox element.

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 and has single-handedly brought the Fox Broadcasting Company into notoriety with the Big Three of network television. Other properties have included the National Hockey League (1994-1999), Major League Baseball (1996-present), World League Football (now NFL Europe) (1997-2005), and NASCAR (2001-present).

Beginning in 2007, Fox Sports will televise three of the annual Bowl Championship Series games (Fiesta Bowl, Orange Bowl and Sugar Bowl) as well as the BCS National Championship Game and become the exclusive home of the Daytona 500 after having alternated the event with NBC Sports throughout their first NASCAR contract. Also beginning in 2007 they will televise 4 Formula One races, including the United States Grand Prix and Canadian Grand Prix live.

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. [1]

In addition to the broadcast division, Fox owns numerous regional U.S. cable sports channels under the Fox Sports Net banner.

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.