• September 26, 2000

Fox has offered about $2.5 billion in a bid to grab major league baseball's entire postseason package from 2001-06, according to the Associated Press.

That figure, which would also cover an extension of current deals for regular-season games on Fox and its cable outlets, was confirmed Monday by three TV industry and baseball sources speaking on condition of anonymity. NBC and ESPN, which hold rights to some postseason games under five-year contracts that expire after the World Series, had until Tuesday to match Fox's bid, industry sources said.