FOX Sports 1 Takes The Field

From left to right: Mike Pereria, Terry Bradshaw, Jimmy Johnson, Troy Aikman, Regis Philbin, Charles Davis, Eddie George, Curt Menefee, Howie Long, David Hill, Eric Shanks, Michael Wartrip, Joey Harrington, Michael Strahan, Jay Glazer, Erin Andrews, Darrell Wartrip, Tim McCarver and Chris Myers at the FOX Sports Upfront Presentation in New York City.

By Josh Albarran

The FOX Sports Media Group announced Tuesday morning during their first upfront presentation in New York that they introduced their all-new 24/7 national sports network, FOX Sports 1 will launch (and replace SPEED) on Saturday, August 17th in 90 million homes in conduction of FOX Sports' 20th anniversary. The new network will broadcast College football, College basketball, soccer, UFC, NASCAR and Major League Baseball as well as original and live studio programming.

On Day 1, FOX Sports 1 will air the NASCAR Camping Truck Series race at Michigan and in prime-time they will broadcast the first UFC on FS1 telecast as FOX Sports 1 will air live UFC fight cards primarily on Wednesday night throughout 2014.

FOX Sports 1 will also featured live studio programming including an nightly highlight show schedule to debut on August 17th at 11:00pm ET/PT and will launch an weekday morning show in January in conjunction with FOX Sports' expansive coverage of Super Bowl XLVII. They will also air FOX Football Daily at 6:00pm ET, an spin-off football program from FOX Broadcasting's successful NFL pregame show with host Erin Andrews and Gus Johnson, analyst Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, insider Jay Glazer and ruling anylast Mike Pereria; and yes Regis Philbin returns to television, as an Notre Dame and Yankees fan he will host Rush Hour live from New York weekdays at 5:00pm ET; FOX Sports 1 will take behind-the-scenes at former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson (who first appeared on FOX back in 1995 when he defeated Buster Mathis, Jr.) in Being: Mike Tyson, the first of several Being documentary series on FS1 airing later this year.

With the launch of the new 24/7 sports network, FOX Sports will provide more sports content across FOX Broadcasting, FOX Sports 1, FOXSports.com and its 22-owned regional sports networks (including their new co-ownership of the YES Network with the New York Yankees baseball team)