Pro-Am Sports System

==1984–1986==
The Pro-Am Sports System (or PASS Sports) launched as an evening-only premium channel on April 17, 1984, offering regional telecasts of Detroit Pistons and Tigers games; . Original owner John Fetzer, who sold the Detroit Tigers to Domino's Pizza owner Tom Monaghan months before the network launched, sold PASS to Monaghan in 1987.
==1986–1993==
Monaghan, who sold the Tigers to Mike Ilitch around the same time, sold PASS to Post-Newsweek Stations (owner of NBC affiliate WDIV) in 1992. The network moved its offices from Ann Arbor to WDIV's Detroit studios (which had been serving as a production facility for PASS's programs since its launch), and subsequently converted into a 24-hour-a-day basic cable service.
==1993–1997==
In 1997, after Fox/Liberty Networks announced plans to launch a new network, Fox Sports Detroit (now Bally Sports Detroit), to compete with PASS, the two networks successfully bid for shared broadcast rights to the Detroit Tigers (for its 1998 season) and Pistons for its 1997–98 season), which were up for renewal, along with PASS's contract for the Red Wings.
However, Post-Newsweek concluded that its Michigan coverage area couldn't support two regional sports networks, and sold its share of the Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons contracts to Fox Sports Detroit on August 30, 1997, three days after their joint bid was accepted, opting to shutter PASS Sports. The network ceased operations at 12:00 a.m. on November 1, 1997, with Red Wings and Pistons games becoming exclusive to Fox Sports Detroit thereafter, with Tigers games following suit in the Spring of 1998.
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Category:Television channels and stations established in 1984
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