#Detroit free press sport series#

PASS was offered for $10 per month and marketed using the slogan 'Your Season Pass'. PASS contracted to use WDIV-TV's studios to produce its programming.

#Detroit free press sport series#

At its launch it also had an agreement with the Detroit Pistons and to carry a series of local boxing matches. For its inaugural year, PASS carried 80 Tigers games (64 home and 16 away) as part of a seven year contract. Fetzer was also the previous owner of the Detroit Tigers, having just sold the team months earlier to Domino's Pizza owner Tom Monaghan. PASS was owned by John Fetzer, the Principal owner of the Fetzer broadcast station group. The network launched on April 17, 1984, as one of the first regional sports networks in the United States. After it lost coverage rights to all major Detroit teams to the new Fox Sports Detroit, it was permanently shut down in 1997. Based in Detroit, Michigan, the channel broadcast regional coverage of sports events throughout Michigan, mainly covering professional, collegiate and high school sports in the Metro Detroit area and throughout Michigan. It also served as an affiliate of the Prime Network from 1988 to 1996. The Pro-Am Sports System (better known as PASS Sports or simply PASS) was an American regional sports network that operated from 1984 to 1997. Television channel Pro-Am Sports System Country