Fox Sports Wisconsin | |
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Launched | April 1, 2007 |
Network | Fox Sports Networks |
Owned by |
Fox Entertainment Group (21st Century Fox) |
Picture format |
720p (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Broadcast area |
Wisconsin Eastern Minnesota Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan Northwestern Illinois Iowa Nationwide (via satellite) |
Headquarters | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Formerly called |
Wisconsin Sports Network (1996–1998) Midwest Sports Channel, Wisconsin feed (1998–2001) FSN North (2001–2007) FSN Wisconsin (2007–2012) |
Sister channel(s) | Fox Sports North |
Website | www |
Availability
(some events may air on overflow feed Fox Sports Wisconsin Plus due to event conflicts) |
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Satellite | |
DirecTV | 669 Fox Sports Wisconsin (SD/HD) 669-1 Fox Sports Wisconsin Plus (SD/HD) |
Dish Network | 448 Fox Sports Wisconsin (SD/HD) 447 Fox Sports Wisconsin Plus (SD) 9517 Fox Sports Wisconsin Plus (HD) |
Cable | |
Charter Communications (Milwaukee) |
Fox Sports Wisconsin: 31 (SD) 1309 (HD) Fox Sports Wisconsin Plus: 310 (SD) 1310 (HD) |
Charter Communications (Green Bay) |
40 (SD) |
Available on most cable systems in designated broadcast area | Consult your local cable provider or program listings source for channel availability |
IPTV | |
AT&T U-verse |
Fox Sports Wisconsin: 744 (SD) 1744 (HD) Fox Sports Wisconsin Plus: 745 (SD) 1745 (HD) |
Streaming media | |
Fox Sports Go |
www (U.S. cable internet subscribers only; requires login from participating providers to stream content; some events may not be available due to league rights restrictions) |
Sling TV | Internet Protocol television |
Fox Sports Wisconsin is an American regional sports network that is owned by Fox Cable Networks, a unit of the Fox Entertainment Group division of 21st Century Fox, and operates as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. Operating as the "Wisconsin" sub-feed of Fox Sports North until 2007, the channel broadcasts regional coverage of sports events throughout the state of Wisconsin, with a focus on professional sports teams based in Milwaukee. It primarily operates from a studio/office facility in downtown Milwaukee, with secondary offices and production studio/office hub based in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Fox Sports Wisconsin is available on cable providers throughout Wisconsin, the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, northwestern Illinois, and Iowa; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV. Prior to 2017, Fox Sports Wisconsin was available to Minnesota residents near the Wisconsin border, however that is no longer the case.
The first regional sports network in the state was the Wisconsin Sports Network, a gametime-only network that broadcast Milwaukee Brewers baseball and Milwaukee Bucks basketball games. The channel was owned by Time Warner Cable's Milwaukee franchise and Group W. In 1996, it was taken over by the Minneapolis-based Midwest Sports Channel, which was owned by CBS owned-and-operated station WCCO-TV (channel 4) in Minneapolis and CBS Cable (which was formed following CBS' 1995 merger with Group W's corporate parent Westinghouse). Shortly afterward, MSC became an affiliate of the fledgling Fox Sports Net in the fall of 1996.