The 1990 postseason started on a Thursday, while World Series started on a Tuesday due to the brief lockout.The 2007 NLCS on TBS marked the first time that a League Championship Series was exclusively broadcast on a cable television network.In 2005, Game 1 of the NLCS and Game 2 of the ALCS were split between Fox and FX.As a result, the first seven innings of the NLCS game were shown on FX, except in the home markets of the teams competing in the NLCS, which saw the conclusion of the ALCS on FX and the NLCS on Fox. Also in 2004, Game 5 of the ALCS ran way into the time slot of Game 5 of the NLCS. In 2004, Game 1 of the NLCS and Game 2 of the ALCS were split between Fox and Fox Sports Net.In 2003, Game 1 of the ALCS and Game 2 of the NLCS were split between Fox and FX.The regional split was done in order for Fox to avoid televising a weekday afternoon game. In 2002, Game 1 of the NLCS and Game 2 of the ALCS were split between Fox and Fox Sports Net.
This came off the heels of Fox airing an NFL doubleheader that particular day (October 21). In 2001, Game 5 of the NLCS and Game 4 of the ALCS were split between Fox and Fox Sports Net.Kevin Kennedy, Mark Grace, and Eric Karrosįrank Thomas, Cal Ripken, and Ron Darling 2017 – Anderson again took over for Johnson as the NLCS play-by-play announcer for TBS, this time because of Johnson's Inside the NBA duties for TNT.Nitkowski, who offered sabermetric analysis of the game. Game 1 of the 2014 NLCS was simulcast on Fox Sports 1 and hosted by Kevin Burkhardt, Gabe Kapler and C.The deal resulted in a reduction of MLB coverage on the Fox network, which will air 12 regular season games, the All-Star Game, and the World Series. Beginning in 2014, when Fox Sports began a new television contract with Major League Baseball, FS1 airs 40 regular season MLB games (mostly on Saturdays), along with up to 15 post-season games (eight Divisional Series games and one best-of-7 League Championship Series).(Central Time Zone) before declining as viewers switched to Monday Night Football or the presidential debate. Nationally, Nielsen found that 8.1 million viewers saw this game, a 4.9% share of households. Louis area watched the game compared with 27.5 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Louis Cardinals showed that 31.8% of households in the St. Nielsen ratings for Game 7 of the 2012 NLCS between the San Francisco Giants and St.Brian Anderson took over for Ernie Johnson as the lead play-by-play man for TBS during the 2011 postseason because Johnson had to care for his son Michael (who suffered from Muscular dystrophy and was placed in intensive care around the same time as the playoffs).The 2010 NLCS did not air in some Philadelphia-area homes after Cablevision pulled local Fox station WTXF off its lineup on October 16 as the result of a carriage dispute with News Corporation, Fox's parent company.Pierzynskiĭavid Wells, Cal Ripken, and Dennis Eckersley Tom Verducci, Pedro Martínez, and Gary Sheffield
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