Fox Network To Get In On Baseball Action

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Network, which did not have a sports division until it acquired NFL football in December 1993, has acquired another major sports property.

Major league baseball will announce today a new five-year television contract in which Fox will televise up to 18 Saturday regular-season games, the World Series in 1996, ‘98 and 2000, the All-Star games in 1997 and ‘99, and each year will share in the first two rounds of playoffs.

NBC will televise All-Star games in even-numbered years during the contract and the World Series in oddnumbered years.