Fox Soccer Channel
| Fox Soccer Channel | |
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| Launched | February 7, |
| Owned by | News Corporation |
| Slogan | Your World, Your Life, Your Game |
| Formerly called | Fox Sports World |
| Website | FoxSoccer.com |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Channel 613 | |
| Channel 149 | |
| Cable | |
| Channel 312 | |
| Comcast | Channels Vary |
| Channels Vary | |
| Channels Vary | |
| Channels Vary | |
| Channel 142 | |
| Midcontinent Communications | Channel 312 |
Fox Soccer Channel is a United States digital
cable network, owned by News Corporation, that specializes in soccer. The channel took its current name on February 7,
Current programming
The channel focuses on soccer throughout the world. Among the countries whose matches it currently televises:
Argentina
- One match every week from the Primera División, plus a weekly highlights show. The featured Argentine League matches begins on Sunday usually at 3:10 Eastern and is tape-delayed on FSC until 5pm Eastern (with the exception of the Boca Juniors-River Plate superclasico, which will air live). Also, the network broadcasts a dubbed version of Fútbol de Primera, Torneos y Competencias's weekly review show, every Wednesday usually at 9 PM Eastern.
Australia
- A weekly highlights package from the
A-League , plus live coverage of the A-League Grand Final.
England
- About four to five live and tape-delayed matches each week from the English Premier
League (EPL), plus weekly preview (Premier League World, EPL Preview Show, and FOX Soccer Match Day)
and recap (EPL Review and Super Sunday +) shows. FOX Sports International shares EPL TV rights with
Setanta Sports North America . Both networks hold exclusive rights to 4-5 live or delayed matches each week in consistent timeslots. Some of FSC's matches air on a subscription-based internet service launched in 2007, particularly when FSC holds the right to show two matches starting at the same time (i.e. at 10am Eastern on Saturdays), or within an hour of each other. FSC may re-air these matches at a later time. - The season-opening
FA Community Shield live. - FA Cup ties. Some, including one semifinal and the final, are broadcast live on pay-per-view and then re-aired on FSC a few days later.
England under-21 home matches.- England national football team home matches. Most weekend matches air live on pay-per-view. FSC rebroadcasts the matches during the following week.
Dream Team : English football soap opera, which completed its 10th and final season in the UK on June 3, 2007, but is currently only in its 6th on FSC in the United States.
Italy
- Exclusive English-language coverage of Serie A for the 2007-2008 through 2009-2010 via an agreement with Media Partners & Silva and SPORTFIVE[1].
- Match hosts include Daniel Arreola and Joe Tutino
Japan
- A weekly highlights package from the J. League.
Mexico (only for FSW Canada and Fox Sports Middle East)
- One weekly match from the Mexican Primera División (First Division) narrated by former Spanish-language sportscaster Daniel Arreola featuring club teams whose home games are normally televised on Azteca América. These teams include Cruz Azul, Pachuca, Puebla, Tecos UAG, Veracruz, Santos Laguna, and Jaguares de Chiapas.
United States
Major League Soccer (MLS): rights to a package of weekly matches, usually on Saturday nights, through 2010 (beginning in 2007, some matches will be the only ones scheduled during their time-slots), via a deal with Soccer United Marketing (SUM) that includes the 2006FC Barcelona tour of the US, summer tour matches in 2007-2010, and the 2007-2010 MexicanInterLiga .- Exclusive rights to United Soccer Leagues matches, including:
- One live match weekly from the second-level
USL First Division . - Occasional regular-season matches from the women's
W-League . - The championship matches of all USL leagues—the First Division,
Second Division ,Premier Development League , and W-League.
- One live match weekly from the second-level
- Up to three live
college soccer matches each week in September and October via an agreement with the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). Other matches may air onFOX Sports Net affiliates as part of multi-sport deals between various conferences and those channels. Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final (2006-2010). The competition is the U.S. equivalent of the English FA Cup.United States men's national soccer team andUnited States women's national soccer team : Second-choice of matches after ESPN selects the matches which fit its schedule.Major Indoor Soccer League : Rights to a weekly game broadcasted live, mainly on Friday nights.
Other events
UEFA :- Live coverage of the UEFA Cup starting with the quarterfinal round, with 6 (out of 8) quarterfinal matches, all 4 semifinal matches, and the final through May 2009.
- Live coverage of the UEFA Super Cup through August 2009.
- Live coverage of the
UEFA Women's Championship . - Live qualifiers for the
UEFA European Football Championship and FIFA World Cup via sublicense from Setanta Sports North America.
CONCACAF : Live coverage of many matches from the CONCACAF Champions' Cup, including any that involve MLS teams. FSC also broadcast the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup (matches involving the U.S. only, plus the final) and 2006 Women's Gold Cup.
CONMEBOL : Live and tape-delayed coverage of selected Copa Libertadores andCopa Sudamericana matches.
- FIFA:
Club World Cup through December 2006.- Through 2006, FSC aired several other FIFA events (see "Past programming" section immediately below). However, ESPN has acquired the US English-language television rights to all FIFA events except for the Club World Cup (whose rights are not sold by FIFA), from 2007 through 2015.
Past programming
In the past, FSC also aired the following:
France : Ligue 1 through the 2005-2006 season. Ligue 1 coverage moved toSetanta Sports North America effective with the 2006-2007 season.Germany : First Bundesliga through the 2005-2006 season. Bundesliga coverage moved toGolTV effective with the 2006-2007 season.Spain : SelectedLa Liga matches that notably did not haveFC Barcelona ,Valencia CF , Real Madrid or Atlético Madrid, four of Spain's biggest clubs, involved in them. Coverage was moved toGolTV effective 2004-5, where all teams can be shown.- Netherlands:
Eredivisie in the 2004-2005 season. Coverage is now onSetanta Sports North America . - United States: A
Major League Soccer highlight show entitledMLS Wrap . - FIFA:
- Confederations Cup through the 2005 season.
FIFA World Youth Championship , now the FIFA U-20 World Cup, through 2005.FIFA U-17 World Championship , now the FIFA U-17 World Cup, through 2005.
Super 14 Rugby, now onSetanta Sports North America .- Aussie Rules Football.
- The 2003
Rugby World Cup (The2007 Rugby World Cup will be onSetanta Sports North America ).
Sky Sports News
FSC picks up the feed from its corporate cousin,
Fox Soccer Report
FSC's flagship studio program is the Fox Soccer Report, anchored by
Additional information
Most of FSC's coverage that originates outside the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America, Caribbean) consists of picking up international broadcast feeds to which FSC has U.S. broadcast rights. All of FSC's South American coverage, including the Argentine highlights show, is overdubbed in English by FSC announcers (having originally been produced in whole or in part by Fox Sports International), as is most game coverage from Italy. The Australian League highlights show is produced by FOX Sports' Australian-unit. The English coverage generally comes to FSC direct from the marketing agencies who produce the match feeds and magazine shows.
The network's soccer coverage is not limited to game play; FSC airs reruns of
In 2006, Fox Soccer Channel announced that they had dropped coverage of other sports other than soccer. Amongst the leagues
dropped were
Fox Sports World filled out its schedule with an eclectic mix of programming; among the sports featured (either in anthology
form or actual events) were motorsports,
However, FSC has not yet filled out its day with sports programming; the morning hours are usually the province of
Since its relaunch as FSC, the channel has had various well-known people in and out of the soccer world do promos. The first
of these aired on the Fox network pregame show for Super Bowl XXXIV. It featured
Ethan Zohn, winner of Survivor: Africa in 2001, hosted FC Fox, a show mostly focused on youth soccer, for a few years. The show has now been retitled and is generally done with voice-over narration.
See also
List of DirecTV channels List of Dish Network channels
Rival channels
GOL TV Setanta Sports North America
References
External links
- Official Site
- Sky Sports
- Official Store of Fox Soccer Channel
- Fox Soccer Channel Schedule on SoccerTV.com
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