Freeform (TV channel)

===Sports===
{{See also|MLB on Fox|ESPN Major League Baseball|MLB on TBS|page 4=Monday Night Football}}
From 2000 to 2001, Fox Family aired a weekly [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB) game on [[Thursday Night Baseball|Thursday nights]] during the league's regular season (a game that had previously aired nationwide on [[Fox Sports Networks|Fox Sports Net]] from 1997 to 1999), as well as select [[Division Series]] games. As part of its purchase of Fox Family, in addition to that game, Disney acquired the MLB cable television rights that were also held by Fox Family's then-sister channel [[FX (TV channel)|FX]]. ESPN assumed the production responsibilities for the two game packages beginning with the [[2002 Major League Baseball season|2002 MLB season]], although the game telecasts remained on ABC Family for one additional year, before ESPN struck a deal to move those playoff games to its flagship network starting [[2003 Major League Baseball season|the following year]] (although the games aired on Disney-owned networks, Fox kept the exclusive negotiation to renew the contract after the [[2006 Major League Baseball season|2006]] season; Fox chose not to renew their rights to the Division Series, which went to [[TBS (U.S. TV channel)|TBS]] as part of its [[MLB on TBS|new baseball contract]]). The Division Series games broadcast on the network were simulcast on local broadcast television stations in the home markets of the participating teams.<ref name="nytimes-abcfamilymlb">{{cite news|title=TV SPORTS; ABC Family Offers Familiar ESPN Look|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/sports/tv-sports-abc-family-offers-familiar-espn-look.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 4, 2002|access-date=January 16, 2016|archive-date=January 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129061331/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/sports/tv-sports-abc-family-offers-familiar-espn-look.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

For the [[2020 NFL season]], ESPN aired an alternate broadcast of its [[National Football League]] (NFL) [[Wild card (sports)|wild card]] game on Freeform, alongside simulcasts on ABC, ESPN2, and ESPN Deportes;<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-30|title=ESPN will air its NFL Wild Card game on five networks, including Freeform|url=https://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/espn-will-air-its-nfl-wild-card-game-on-five-networks-including-freeform.html|access-date=2020-11-30|website=Awful Announcing|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130193328/https://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/espn-will-air-its-nfl-wild-card-game-on-five-networks-including-freeform.html|url-status=live}}</ref> this marked the first live sports telecast of any kind on the channel since [[2002 Major League Baseball season|2002]] (when the channel was known as ABC Family).