major league baseball made a deal with fox and nbc on november 7, 1995. fox televised regular season games (about 16 weekly telecasts normally beginning on memorial day weekend) on saturday afternoons, selected division series games, and alternated the all-star game, league championship series and the world series with nbc each year. to better state this, fox aired the all-star game aired american league championship series in odd-numbered years while airing the national league championship series and world series in even-numbered years.