No Bones About It: FOX Sports Readies for Presentation of 143rd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show

FOX, FS1 and Nat Geo WILD Join Forces for Coverage of Westminster Week

Masters Agility Championship at Westminster Returns to FOX Broadcast Network

New York – The world’s top canine athletes are ready for their turn in the spotlight, as the FOX broadcast network, FS1 and Nat Geo WILD team up to present full coverage of Westminster Week from Sunday, Feb. 10, through Tuesday, Feb. 12. Several of the networks’ top voices are in New York City for the annual event, which begins with the Masters Agility Championship at Westminster on FOX and culminates with the crowning of Best in Show on FS1.

Veteran FOX Sports broadcaster Chris Myers and Gail Miller Bisher, the voice of the Westminster Kennel Club, are joined this year by veteran judge Don Sturz in the Madison Square Garden broadcast booth. Primetime coverage of the 143rd annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show begins Monday, Feb. 11, and Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 7:00 PM ET on FS1 with a 30-minute pre-event program before breed winners enter the ring both nights at 7:30 PM ET.

FOX Sports’ Jenny Taft once again hosts FS1’s primetime coverage, welcoming viewers to the World’s Most Famous Arena for the nation’s second-longest continuously held sporting event, while Karyn Bryant returns to report from the backstage benching area and interviews winners. New to this year’s event, FOX NASCAR’s Jamie Little joins FS1’s primetime coverage both nights as a reporter.

Westminster Week begins this weekend with the sixth annual Masters Agility Championship at Westminster, which airs on the FOX broadcast network for the second consecutive year, at 2:00 PM ET on Sunday, Feb. 11. FOX Sports play-by-play announcer Justin Kutcher, analyst Terry Simons and reporter Jennifer Hale call the action from Piers 92 and 94 in New York City.

Kutcher and Hale also contribute to coverage of daytime breed judging on Monday and Tuesday from 1:00-4:00 PM ET on Nat Geo WILD. They are joined by FOX Sports’ Shane Bacon as well as veteran judges Kimberly Meredith-Cavanna and Jason Hoke live from Piers 92 and 94. Daytime breed judging can also be streamed live on the FOX Sports app from 8:00 AM-5:00 PM ET both days.

Throughout Westminster Week, the FOX Sports app offers more than 30 hours of live streaming, beginning with eight hours of agility preliminaries on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 8:00 AM-4:00 PM ET. Streaming coverage continues Monday and Tuesday at 8:00 AM ET with breed judging live from Piers 92 and 94.

The full schedule of Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show coverage on FOX, FS1, Nat Geo WILD and FOX Sports GO can be found below and at WestminsterKennelClub.org.

2019 Westminster Week Programming Schedule

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