History
The first regional sports network in the state was a gametime-only network broadcasting Milwaukee Brewers baseball and Milwaukee Bucks basketball games called Wisconsin Sports Network. Its parent companies were Milwaukee's Time-Warner franchise and Group W. However, in 1996, it was taken over by the Minneapolis based Midwest Sports Channel, which was owned by WCCO-TV (Channel 4) in Minneapolis and CBS Cable after the merger between CBS and Westinghouse. Shortly thereafter, MSC became an affiliate of the fledgling Fox Sports Net in the fall of 1996, ultimately changing its name to FSN North after the network's sale to Fox in 2000, in time for the network's name to change in April 2001.
From 1996–2007, Wisconsin was served by one of three regional subfeeds of FSN North; the other two being a feed for the Twin Cities metro area and a feed for the rest of Minnesota (as well as Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota). Fox Sports Wisconsin was launched on April 1, 2007, to coincide with the start of the Brewers season.
On April 9, 2012, the network launched a "Plus" feed in both HD and SD on most of FSN Wisconsin's cable and satellite providers, which will allow the network to air Brewers games on FSN Wisconsin, while Milwaukee Bucks games are carried over FSN Wisconsin Plus. Some systems will carry the Plus channel on a full-time basis, while others will carry it gametime-only.
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