(2001–present). ‎

Exclusive coverage

FOX has become the exclusive home of the Daytona 500 after having alternated the event with NBC Sports throughout their first NASCAR contract. Also beginning in 2007 they will televise 4 Formula One races, including the United States Grand Prix and Canadian Grand Prix, plus two NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races live. In addition, FOX covered the first 90 minutes of the 45th Rolex 24 at Daytona on January 27. The Formula One and Rolex 24 events will use Speed Channel's, FOX's sister network, equipment and staff, and will be broadcasted under the SPEED on FOX banner.

Fox Sports has been the exclusive broadcaster of the World Series since 2000. A new contract announced on July 11, 2006, guarantees that Fox Sports will keep the World Series through the 2013 season.

Regional sports coverage

Fox Sports Net operates as a regional sports network with broadcasting agreements that follow league market distribution rules. For example, cable and satellite subscribers in Nevada receive Los Angeles Lakers games on Fox Sports West, while viewers in Utah see Utah Jazz games on Fox Sports Utah. The regionalized coverage frequently restricts broadcasts of live sporting events outside a team's home market.

Cable channels

In addition to the broadcast division, Fox owns numerous regional U.S. cable sports channels under the Fox Sports Net banner, among others. These cable channels also include:

• SPEED Channel which provides additional NASCAR and F-1 coverage,
• Fox Soccer Channel which broadcasts the English Premier League and Major League Soccer, among other competitions.
• Big Ten Network which broadcasts sports and content from Big Ten Conference universities exclusively.
• Fuel TV which airs action sports such as skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding, BMX and FMX.
• Fox College Sports which airs additional college sports content from across the country on 3 cable channels (Fox College Sports Atlantic, Fox College Sports Central, and Fox College Sports Pacific), most produced by Fox Sports Net affiliates.

Graphics, scoring bugs and theme music

The graphics and scoring bugs have won awards and changed the face of sports broadcasting in the United States. The opening notes of the NFL broadcast theme can be heard in every iteration of other Fox Sports broadcast themes. When the scoring bugs are upgraded, the previous versions are passed down to the various Fox Sports Net affiliates. The first score bug was used for FOX's NFL coverage, then was expanded to baseball and hockey broadcasts.

2001–2003

By 2001, the score bug became a banner at the top of the screen and was simpler than today's. It featured a transparent black rectangle, a baseball diamond graphic for baseball broadcasts on the far left, the team abbreviations in white with their scores in yellow boxes; the boxes were white for NFL broadcasts until Super Bowl XXXVI, when the boxes became yellow, Then the quarter or inning, time or number of outs, pitch count/speed (baseball broadcasts), and the logo of that certain FOX program, such as NFL on FOX or MLB on FOX on the far right.