Fox cuts MLB pregame show in '09

http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/archives/2008/12/fox-dumping-mlb.html

Fox sources have confirmed that the network will drop its Los Angeles-
based Major League Baseball pregame show for next season as part of a
network-wide cost-cutting move, and Fox Sports chief Ed Goren informed
all the talent about the decision just before Thanksgiving.

Some of it has to do with the fact that the network lost up to $50
million on its MLB coverage in '07, no doubt helped along by the less-
than-attractive World Series, and that the pregame show hosted by
Jeanne Zelasko and including Kevin Kennedy, Eric Karros and Mark
Grace, never made money with national ad sales (they were sold by the
local affiliates, rather than the national ads that are seen on the
Fox NFL pregame show).

Zelasko and Kennedy will be without Fox MLB gigs for next season.
Karros and Grace continue as a regional game analyst.

Fox will likely have its Saturday MLB games on on the air at 1 p.m.,
with a 1:07 p.m. first pitch. With the pregame shows in the past, Fox
would come on the air at 12:30 p.m. with first pitch at 12:55 p.m.

wrote:
> http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/archives/2008/12/fox-dumping-mlb.html
>
> Fox sources have confirmed that the network will drop its Los Angeles-
> based Major League Baseball pregame show for next season as part of a
> network-wide cost-cutting move, and Fox Sports chief Ed Goren informed
> all the talent about the decision just before Thanksgiving.

If they want to further cut costs, I'd suggest laying off most of the
team responsible for all the graphics and sound effects.