FSN Wisconsin
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Fox Sports 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.
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.
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. 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.
high definition simulcast of Fox Sports Wisconsin. All Bucks and Brewers games are aired in HD, as well as national FSN programs.
Major League Baseball
NBA
NHL
NCAA Division I athletics
NCAA Division III athletics
High School athletics
Regional sports network
In the United States of America and Canada, a regional sports network, or RSN, is a cable television station that presents sports programming to a local market. The most important programming on an RSN consists of live broadcasts of professional and college sporting events, as those games generate...
serving the state of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
. 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
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...
; the network had formerly been based at Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
O&O WITI (Channel 6)'s studios in Brown Deer
Brown Deer, Wisconsin
Brown Deer is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. It is a suburb of Milwaukee. The population was 11,999 at the 2010 census...
before that station was sold to Local TV LLC in 2008. Fox Sports Wisconsin is an owned and operated affiliate of Fox Sports Net
Fox Sports Net
The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...
. FS Wisconsin is the cable home of the Milwaukee Brewers
Milwaukee Brewers
The Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently playing in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League...
and Milwaukee Bucks
Milwaukee Bucks
The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and currently plays at the Bradley Center....
.
Due to lack of bandwidth, DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
still treats Fox Sports Wisconsin as a subfeed and only turns it on for live games, usually those of the Brewers and Bucks.
History
The first regional sports network in the state was a gametime-only network broadcasting Milwaukee BrewersMilwaukee Brewers
The Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently playing in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League...
baseball and Milwaukee Bucks
Milwaukee Bucks
The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and currently plays at the Bradley Center....
basketball games called Wisconsin Sports Network
Wisconsin Sports Network
Wisconsin Sports Network is an integrated publishing company with a focus on student athletes, their communities, families, friends, fans and coaches within the Wisconsin prep scene. It was created in 2002 by Nicholas Kartos, who was joined soon after by Rick Hamilton. The company currently...
. 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
WCCO-TV
WCCO-TV, is the CBS owned and operated television station that serves the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. Its transmitter is at the Telefarm complex in Shoreview, Minnesota.- History :...
(Channel 4) in Minneapolis and CBS Cable
CBS Cable
CBS Cable was an early cable network operated by CBS, Inc., dedicated to the lively arts . It debuted in October 1981 and ceased operations on December 17, 1982.-As a network:...
after the merger between CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
and Westinghouse
Westinghouse Electric (1886)
Westinghouse Electric was an American manufacturing company. It was founded in 1886 as Westinghouse Electric Company and later renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation by George Westinghouse. The company purchased CBS in 1995 and became CBS Corporation in 1997...
. Shortly thereafter, MSC became an affiliate of the fledgling Fox Sports Net
Fox Sports Net
The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...
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
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
as well as Iowa
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
, North Dakota and South Dakota. Fox Sports Wisconsin was launched on April 1, 2007, to coincide with the start of the Brewers season.
Programming
Currently, Fox Sports Wisconsin's programming includes Brewers, Bucks, and Minnesota Wild pregame, postgame, and fan shows, along with some of WITI's PackerGreen Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
analysis shows and WIAA
Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association is the regulatory body for all high school sports in Wisconsin. Its history dates to 1895, making it the first high school athletic organization in the country...
competitions, weekend outdoors programming, and many of Fox Sports's national programs, including The Final Score and The Dan Patrick Show
The Dan Patrick Show
The Dan Patrick Show is a syndicated sports talk show hosted by former ESPN personality Dan Patrick. It is currently produced by DirecTV Sports Group and is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks. The three-hour program broadcasts live every day beginning at 9 a.m. Eastern/6 a.m. Pacific time on Fox...
. 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
WMLW-CA
WMLW-CA, channel 41 , is a LPTV independent television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its transmitter is located in Milwaukee's Lincoln Park...
(Channel 41), producing the broadcasts and airing them on Fox Sports Wisconsin outside of the Milwaukee market, while WMLW sold ads on those telecasts. It also airs NCAA competitions of the Big East Conference
Big East Conference
The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of sixteen universities in the eastern half of the United States. The conference's 17 members participate in 24 NCAA sports...
, Big Ten Conference
Big Ten Conference
The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference. Its twelve member institutions are located primarily in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Nebraska in the west to Pennsylvania in the east...
and the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is a college athletic conference that competes in the NCAA's Division III. As the name implies, member teams are located in the state of Wisconsin, although there are three associate members from Minnesota and one from Michigan...
.
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
Marquette University
Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1881, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...
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.
Fox Sports Wisconsin HD
Fox Sports Wisconsin HD is a 720p720p
720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan...
high definition simulcast of Fox Sports Wisconsin. All Bucks and Brewers games are aired in HD, as well as national FSN programs.
Milwaukee Bucks telecast
- Jim PaschkeJim PaschkeJim Paschke is an American sportscaster. A native of Bloomington, Minnesota he began his broadcasting career in radio in Knoxville, Iowa after studying at the University of Minnesota and Brown Institute in Minneapolis...
: play-by-play announcer - Jon McGlocklinJon McGlocklinJon P. McGlocklin is an American former professional basketball player.A sharpshooting 6'5" guard from Indiana University, McGlockin was selected by the Cincinnati Royals in the third round of the 1965 NBA Draft, but he is best known for his 8-season tenure with the Milwaukee Bucks, with whom he...
: analyst - Craig Coshun: Bucks Live host
- Tony SmithTony Smith (basketball)Charles Anton Smith is a retired American professional basketball player.Smith played high school basketball at Wauwatosa East High School, which retired his number 34 jersey at ceremonies held in 2007...
: Bucks Live analyst - Jeff Grayson: Bucks Live host
Milwaukee Brewers telecast
- Brian AndersonBrian Anderson (broadcaster)Brian Anderson is an American sportscaster. Since 2007, he has called play-by-play for the Milwaukee Brewers' telecasts on FSN Wisconsin. As a part of his work on the 2007 Brewers Preview Show, Anderson and the FSN team were awarded a regional Emmy Award....
: play-by-play announcer - Bill SchroederBill Schroeder (baseball)Bill Schroeder is a former Major League Baseball player and a current television sports broadcaster...
: in-game color analyst - Craig Coshun: Brewers Live host; play-by-play announcer
- Davey NelsonDave NelsonDavid Earl Nelson is a former Major League Baseball player and one of the current broadcasters for the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team on Fox Sports Wisconsin...
: Brewers Live analyst - Jeff Grayson: Brewers Live host
- Jerry AugustineJerry AugustineGerald Lee Augustine is a retired American professional baseball player who was a pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1975-1984 for the Milwaukee Brewers....
: Brewers Live analyst - Telly Hughes: field reporter
Teams
Fox Sports Wisconsin is the cable television home to several professional and college teams.Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
- Milwaukee BrewersMilwaukee BrewersThe Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently playing in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League...
NBA
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
- Milwaukee BucksMilwaukee BucksThe Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and currently plays at the Bradley Center....
(exclusive to the network starting with the 2007–08 season)
NHL
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
- Minnesota WildMinnesota WildThe Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
(2000-) (through Fox Sports North)
NCAA Division I athletics
- Wisconsin BadgersWisconsin BadgersThe Wisconsin Badgers are the collegiate athletic teams from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This NCAA Division I athletic program has teams in football, basketball, ice hockey, volleyball, soccer, cross country, tennis, swimming, wrestling, track and field, rowing, golf, and softball...
(via Fox/Big Ten ConferenceBig Ten ConferenceThe Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference. Its twelve member institutions are located primarily in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Nebraska in the west to Pennsylvania in the east...
-owned Big Ten Network; BTN game rebroadcasts and coaches shows only) - Big East, Big 12Big 12 ConferenceThe Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of ten schools located in the Central United States, with its headquarters located in Las Colinas, a community in the Dallas, Texas suburb of Irving...
and Pac 12 football and basketball (through FSN and ESPN PlusESPN PlusESPN Plus, the popular name of ESPN Regional Television, is an American television program syndicator. ERT is based along with sister network ESPNU in Charlotte, North Carolina...
) - WCHAWestern Collegiate Hockey AssociationThe Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as an ice hockey-only conference....
Hockey
NCAA Division III athletics
- Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceWisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceThe Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is a college athletic conference that competes in the NCAA's Division III. As the name implies, member teams are located in the state of Wisconsin, although there are three associate members from Minnesota and one from Michigan...
High School athletics
- WIAAWisconsin Interscholastic Athletic AssociationThe Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association is the regulatory body for all high school sports in Wisconsin. Its history dates to 1895, making it the first high school athletic organization in the country...
Wisconsin State Tournaments (exclusive rights to all but the state football and basketball championships, which air over a local broadcast station network)