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Major League Soccer on FOX incorporates the series of broadcasts of the league on various national FOX television and cable networks including FOX Broadcasting, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2 and Fox Soccer Plus.

MLS Soccer Sunday
MLS Soccer Sunday is a presentation of Major League Soccer produced independently by ESPN and Fox Sports Sunday evenings primarily on ESPN2 and Fox Sports 1. Spanish-language simulcasts are broadcast on ESPN Deportes and Fox Deportes.

As part of the new broadcast agreement between Major League Soccer and its network partners, Fox Sports contracted to broadcast 34 weekly matches, primarily on FOX Sports 1 and FOX Deportes in the 7pm Eastern Time Zone broadcast window. The first broadcast on 8 March 2015 was the first match of a doubleheader featuring Sporting Kansas City and the New York Red Bulls. The second match featured Seattle Sounders FC and New England Revolution.

Controversy
On 19 April 2015, Fox Broadcasting was scheduled to broadcast NASCAR's Food City 500. However, rain persisted throughout the day. FOX decided to maintain its regular Sunday primetime schedule and shifted the race to FS1. Consequently, that evening's telecast of the match between New York City FC (NYCFC) and the Portland Timbers was shifted to Fox Sports 2 (FS2). Unfortunately, FS2 doesn't appear on as many cable systems as FS1. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, FS1 is in 85 million homes; FS2 is in 45 million homes. On many of the cable systems which do carry FS2, it is carried in standard definition rather than high definition.

As a result, the league lifted the nation-wide blackout allowing U.S. subscribers to view the match on the MLS Live digital service.

Soccer Night In America
Soccer Night in America (also known as MLS Saturday/MLS on Fox Soccer) was a weekly presentation of Major League Soccer games on FOX Soccer that began in 2003. In 2007, MLS Saturday started showing a 30 minute pregame and a 30 minute postgame show for each game. From 2005 to 2011, FOX Soccer showed 25 to 30 live games each season, plus 2 to 3 playoff games.

In 2011, MLS on Fox Soccer was rebranded as Soccer Night in America, with its production revamped to provide a viewing experience similar to NFL on Fox. However, Fox was outbid by NBC Sports Network for its MLS package for the 2012-2014 seasons.