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on Thursday nights.

History

''USA Network Thursday Night Baseball'' (1979–1983)

From 1979 to 1983, the

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broadcast Major League Baseball games under the '' Thursday Game of the Week'' banner. The series began April 26, 1979 with a doubleheader:

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(

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) followed by

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(

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). The second game of the night was typically, based out of the

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. The games were usually blacked out of the competing teams' cities. Once in a while, when USA did a repeat of the telecast late at night, local cities were allowed to show the rerun. From 1980 to 1981, Woods and

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(replacing Harrelson) did the early games (except for a game at

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on October 2, 1980, which reunited Woods with onetime

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radio partner

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), while Moore and

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(replacing Wills) called the late game. In 1982, doubleheaders did not start until June 17. Prior to the doubleheaders starting, Moore and Parker did the individual game until then. When the doubleheaders finally began, Moore and Parker moved over to the late game for the rest of the year. Meanwhile,

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(replacing Jim Woods) and Nelson Briles were assigned to call the early game. USA continued with the plan of not starting doubleheaders until June in the final year of the package in 1983. Steve Zabriskie and Al Albert filled in for Eddie Doucette in September 1982 (Steve Grad also occasionally substituted) while Albert replaced Doucette for a game or more in 1983.

''ABC's Thursday Night Baseball'' (1989)

In 1989, the

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network aired Thursday night Major League Baseball games after having broadcast ''

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'' (and occasional Sunday afternoon games) since 1976. This was ABC's final year of consecutive baseball coverage (teaming with

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, which had telecast Saturday afternoon games since 1966 and Major League Baseball in general since 1947) due to

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signing a four-year contract (spanning from 1990 to 1993) to become the exclusive national broadcast network provider for Major League Baseball games.

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, and

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formed ABC's lead broadcast team. Meanwhile,

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was the backup play-by-play man alongside

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(who had worked with

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the previous season) on color commentary.

Rumors of Thursday night games on CBS

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games airing only on Thursday nights during the season. The proposed deal with CBS involved respectively

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teams playing the

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, and the

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playing the

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. In October , when it was a known fact that ABC and NBC were going to end their television deal/joint venture with Major League Baseball, preliminary talks arose about CBS resuming its role as the league's national over-the-air broadcaster. It was rumored that CBS would show Thursday night games (more specifically, a package of

inter-league games scheduled for the 11:30 p.m. Eastern/8:30 Pacific Time slot) while Fox would show Saturday afternoon games. CBS and Fox were also rumored to share rights to the postseason. In the end however, CBS' involvement did not come to pass and NBC became Fox's over-the-air national television partner. Whereas each team earned about $14 million in 1990 under CBS, the later television agreement with NBC and Fox beginning in 1996 earned each team about $6.8 million.

Fox Sports Net and Fox Family's coverage (1997–2001)

In 1997, as part of the contract with Major League Baseball it had signed the year before,

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gained an additional outlet for its coverage. Its recently launched network of cable

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, was given rights to two Thursday night games per week, one for the Eastern and Central time zones and one for the Mountain and Pacific time zones. In 2000, as part of an exclusive contract Fox signed with MLB, that coverage passed to

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and was reduced to one game per week. After the 2000 season, Fox also gained rights to the entire postseason and moved a large portion of its Division Series coverage to Fox Family. This lasted for one season due to

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acquiring Fox Family. As part of the transaction, Fox Family was renamed

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and

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gained the rights to Fox Family and FX's MLB coverage, although the 2002 Division Series aired on ABC Family due to contractual issues, but with ESPN production, a sign of things to come at

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. Control of the overall contract remained with Fox, meaning they could renegotiate following the 2006 season and not allow ESPN to retain its postseason coverage. For the 2007 season, Fox did exactly that, and TBS became the other home of the postseason as part of its new baseball contract. Play-by-play announcers for the FSN/Fox Family coverage included

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, and

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. Color analysts included

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, Kevin Kennedy, Steve Lyons, and

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. Occasionally, FSN would

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a local-team feed of a game from one of its affiliated RSNs in lieu of a dedicated national production.

''ESPN Thursday Night Baseball'' (consistently: 2003–2006) (select games: 1996, 2002, 2011-2012, 2015, 2017-present)

''ESPN Thursday Night Baseball'' aired on either

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from 2003 to 2006 and featured one game per week, taking over the package that had been on Fox Family Channel.

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served as the presenting sponsor for the telecasts. The play-by-play commentator was

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along with either

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as color commentator. In 2006,

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joined the broadcast as the field reporter. ''ESPN Thursday Night Baseball'' was officially discontinued after the 2006 season because the broadcast rights to the package were lost to TBS. TBS showed the games on Sunday afternoons that

previously aired on Thursday nights. ''Thursday Night Baseball'' was replaced with ''

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''. Even though ''Thursday Night Baseball'' was officially discontinued after the 2006 season, ESPN has still aired select games on Thursday nights. This occurred in 2011, 2012, 2015, and every year since 2017, when Opening Day of the MLB season was moved to Thursdays, as an evening game on Opening Day remains part of ESPN's baseball contract.

''MLB Network Showcase'' (2009-present)

On April 9, 2009,

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aired its first ever self-produced live baseball telecast. The network typically produces 26 non-exclusive live games a year during the regular season; since one or both teams' local TV rights holders also carry the games, the MLB Network feed is subject to local blackouts. In that event, the cities in the blacked-out markets will instead see a

of another scheduled game via one team's local TV rights holder. For the shortened 2020 season, MLB Network aired 8 games on Thursday nights, mostly simulcasts of

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''Fox Sports Thursday Night Baseball'' (2014–present)

Fox (2019-present)

For the 2019 season,

announced that they would air two games on Thursday nights in September. Four Thursday night games were aired on Fox in a regionalized form, with the

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vs. the

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and the

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vs. the

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airing September 12 at 7:15. The following week, the

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vs. the

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and the

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vs. the

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were aired. The primary games were called by

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, and

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, while the secondary games were called by

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, and

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in 2019. With the 2020 season being abbreviated to just 60 games due to the

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, Fox announced that they would broadcast at least four games on Thursday nights beginning on July 30 and continuing through the month of August. Fox aired three weekends of Thursday night games in 2020, with July 30 and August 6 being regionalized, while August 13 was a national broadcast for the whole country. Fox was supposed to air another week of regional games on August 27, but they were postponed in the wake of player protest after the police shooting of

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(and instead those games got rescheduled to Saturday which aired as part of the

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package) For the 2021 season, Fox only aired one Thursday night game. The "

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" between the

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and the

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. For the 2022 season, Fox aired three weeks of Thursday night games, The first aired was the Field of Dreams game on August 11, then it aired games in 2 weeks of September (to avoid College Football).

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(2014–present)

While not weekly FS1 has aired baseball on Thursday nights occasionally since 2014. One game was aired on Thursdays in 2014 and 2015, two games in 2016, one game in 2017 and two games in 2018, three games were aired in 2020 and three games in 2022. FS1 usually airs baseball games on Saturdays.

=Schedule

Notes

YouTube (2019-present)

Since 2019,

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has aired a select amount of Major League Baseball games. These games are produced by

but are available exclusively through the MLB YouTube channel. While most games stream on Wednesday afternoons, some games have streamed on Thursdays.

References

External links

History

''USA Network Thursday Night Baseball'' (1979–1983)

''ABC's Thursday Night Baseball'' (1989)

Rumors of Thursday night games on CBS

Fox Sports Net and Fox Family's coverage (1997–2001)

''ESPN Thursday Night Baseball'' (consistently: 2003–2006) (select games: 1996, 2002, 2011-2012, 2015, 2017-present)

''MLB Network Showcase'' (2009-present)

''Fox Sports Thursday Night Baseball'' (2014–present)

Fox (2019-present)

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=Schedule

Notes

YouTube (2019-present)

References

External links

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(2014–present)