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The first and most basic reason for this is distribution. Fox Sports 1 would replace Speed Channel, which was in 80.8 million television homes at the start of October trailing ESPN (98.2M) and ESPN2 (98.1M), but ahead of NBCSN (78.1M).
In recent chaep flight airline tickets negotiations with Major League Baseball, Fox Sports obtained cable television rights to over 40 Saturday afternoon regular season games and half of the Division Series. FS1 would presumably air those telecasts.
Major League Baseball is a significantly more valuable television property than the National Hockey chaep flight airline tickets League, the highest-profile sport on NBCSN (other than the Olympics, which airs for only two weeks every two years). CBSSN, meanwhile, airs nothing of value but lower-tier college football and early round U.S. Open tennis coverage.
FS1 is also likely to continue airing NASCAR s annual chaep flight airline tickets All-Star Race and Camping World Truck Series, as well as Sprint Cup practice and qualifying rounds. Those events have aired on Speed Channel in past years, and Fox Sports retained those rights in recent negotiations with NASCAR.
chaep flight airline tickets Fox Sports could also pick up additional NASCAR rights chaep flight airline tickets if Turner Sports and ESPN do not renew during chaep flight airline tickets their exclusive negotiating windows next year. Undoubtedly, such a move would result in Sprint Cup races airing on FS1 as well though that is an admittedly unlikely hypothetical.
Where FS1 would likely fail is in providing studio programming. Outside of FOX NFL Sunday, the studio has generally been a weakness for Fox Sports, which currently outsources MLB pregame coverage to MLB Network and whose much-hyped college football pregame has been panned. When Fox Sports Net was being positioned as a rival for ESPN, a nightly show hosted by Keith Olbermann failed, as did the much-derided Best Damn Sports Show Period.
Still, it is not as if NBCSN or CBSSN have much in the way of formidable studio coverage either. NBC s NBC Sports Talk has been a non-factor thus far, and CBS highest-profile studio programming consists of talk shows hosted by former ESPNers Jim Rome and Doug Gottlieb chaep flight airline tickets .
Without even being officially announced, FS1 already has a stronger line-up than NBCSN or CBSSN. While that line-up is nowhere close to that of ESPN, one can be both the closest contender and a very distant second.
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