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 retained for one of its other properties for about a year. However, this practice ended in 2009. The first score bug was used for Fox's NFL coverage, then was expanded to baseball and hockey broadcasts.
One segment of the theme, coincidentally or otherwise, echoes the notes for the "giddyup, giddyup, let's go" line from the song, "Sleigh Ride". During Christmas-season broadcasts, Fox Sports broadcasts will sometimes acknowledge this fact by seguéing from the one tune into the other as they break for a commercial.
Beginning in October 2010, the NFL broadcast theme became the theme for all Fox Sports properties beginning with the that year's NLCS and NASCAR with the 2011 Budweiser Shootout. It is yet unknown if this includes the FSN affiliates, as their basketball, hockey, baseball, and college football broadcasts continue to use their own theme music.
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