Why does FOX have the same musical theme for baseball that they use for the NFL?

[TVFactFan]

I always thought the MLB Playoffs had a different theme unless FOX is just being lazy

[Brian Damage]

I always thought the MLB Playoffs had a different theme unless FOX is just being lazy


They use to...they are just being lazy now.

[TVFactFan]

They use to...they are just being lazy now.

Yeah the **** sounds crazy. CBS had different themes when they aired baseball and football in the early 90's. Remember the baseball theme below?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95kTST5KtLw

[TVFactFan]

Brian you were right, Fox used to have a different theme for baseball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr9zUpaWpYE&feature=related

[Brian Damage]

I think FOX has made this music the UNIVERSAL music for all sports on the network.

[TVFactFan]

I think FOX has made this music the UNIVERSAL music for all sports on the network.


I only think of football when I hear it, especially since it's been for 17 years

[born2late]

I noticed that too. Every time I hear it, I think of football.

[mets82]

I dont know why they changed it. I thought MLB ON FOX theme was very good. They should have left well enough alone.

[TMC]

http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/10/26/fox-goes-to-musical-bullpen-for-mlb-playoffs/

If you were confused at the end of innings during National League Championship
Series telecasts on FOX last week, thinking that you heard the network's
football theme music rather than its baseball jingle, you were correct.

The network quietly swapped out its baseball theme, which includes a quick
reference to its football theme, for the tune that has accompanied its NFL
coverage since the sports division opened for business in 1994.

Eric Shanks (http://awfulannouncing.com/2010-articles/december/eric-shanks-is-an-idiotits-called-a-focus-group.html), the new FOX Sports President, said during a Monday conference call,
that the music the network had used for baseball postseason coverage the last 10
years had been slower, perhaps more "cathedral" and that FOX wanted to perk
things up.

"When we were taking a look at recent tapes, we decided that baseball deserves a
faster pace and more upbeat music," Shanks said. "There's no better music than
the FOX Sports theme for the NFL."

Shanks said viewers should count on hearing what we've come to know as the FOX
NFL theme across all the network's sports telecasts going forward, including
NASCAR.

"It's becoming a real FOX Sports theme," Shanks said. "And it gives all of our
sports sort of that marquee feel and it gives us a more upbeat way to come on
the air."

[Tweety]

I'm hoping FOX outbids NBC for the Wimbledon finals one day, and uses the same theme for covering that.

Their theme song beats that stupid, British-sounding crap that NBC plays for their Wimbledon coverage.

[TMC]

I'm hoping FOX outbids NBC for the Wimbledon finals one day, and uses the same theme for covering that.

Their theme song beats that stupid, British-sounding crap that NBC plays for their Wimbledon coverage.

Neither NBC or Fox isn't going to cover the Wimbledon tournament anytime soon since ESPN outbid NBC for the TV rights beginning next year:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Bring-back-the-MLB-on-Fox-theme-music/169726539705358

[MrCleveland]

What next...NASCAR using the same theme?