Fox Sports Northwest No Longer?

by Doug Taylor on Dec 11, 2006 6:17 PM PST Comment 11 comments

Apparently our local sports network is being sold to Liberty Media Corporation as part of a deal to set Rupert Murdoch up with full control of News Corp. They also get DIRECtv as part of the exchange.

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So, any ideas as to what our new network should be branded? Programming suggestions? One thing we can all hope for is the swift and sudden end of Matt Morrison's broadcasting career. He seems like a nice guy, but he has all the charisma and broadcast talents of a brick wall.

Discuss.

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For sports:

Balls Gone Wild!!!!

Slogan:

You won't believe your eyes
when they pop those flies!

We are the holler men, we are the glove men, mouthpiece filled with plug: ptoo!

by Celadus on Dec 11, 2006 7:09 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Your 2007 Ms

We hope you like balls in play!

by Matthew on Dec 11, 2006 7:13 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Finally pitchers that understand

Pitching to contact!!!! :)

by Peen on Dec 11, 2006 8:07 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

FSN has always been the bane of my existence.

Their programmingand on-air talent is consistently awful and their visual and audio aesthetic is either over the top with explosions and whooshes or junior high A/V club bad. Never any middle ground. Now that I've just moved from Seattle to California, FSN is finally gone? Sweet, cruel fate. How you mock me.

by Slozbury Stouvre on Dec 11, 2006 7:27 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

What you said

Even today, FSN strikes me as regional bush league sports programming... and marathon poker shows.

I hope the merger leads to something a little less grating.

by Gomez on Dec 11, 2006 8:33 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

How sadly appropriate

FSN strikes me as regional bush league sports programming

Considering that most Seattle sports are more or less bush league (with the possible exception of the Seahawks), FSN's bush league approach was perfect.

I will not miss FSN. Unless something lamer takes its place.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Dec 11, 2006 9:15 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

yes, that was a joke

I don't really think Seattle sports are bush league. Very often.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Dec 11, 2006 9:16 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

plus you now live in Cali

eww

by Matthew on Dec 11, 2006 8:33 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Wait, doesn't California

have about 3-4 Fox Sports Net affiliates? I mean, we labor under one, but you've just jumped from that into full-spectrum blanket coverage featuring the execrable Bill Macdonald and Petros Papadakis. Would you like to watch a baseball game? Please, hearken to the dulcet tones of Rex F$#Q!^% Hudler.

Unless you're in NorCal, where you still only have one FSN, but you know...

by marc w on Dec 12, 2006 8:55 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs