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I still find it funny that a company can rebrand an existing channel and feel that warrants a new deal. NOPE! At least in my opinion. Honor your contract. This is more a blanketed statement. I'm not referring FOX Sports 1 specifically.
Fox Sports 1 Signs Up DIRECTV, Dish & Time Warner Cable
By Swanni
Washington, D.C. (August 14, 2013) -[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT]Fox Sports 1 has signed carriage agreements with DIRECTV, Dish and Time Warner Cable, reports The Los Angeles Times. The three major pay TV providers will carry the channel when it launches on Saturday, August 17.
The channel intends to be a serious competitor to ESPN for the crown of top national sports network. The channel will feature many of the Fox Network's top talent, including Erin Andrews, and it [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]will begin airing regular season and playoff MLB games in 2014. Fox executives say they hope to add NFL games at some point.
The Times writes that the deals with the three TV providers cited above means that Fox Sports 1 will be available in the majority of pay TV homes at launch. Fox earlier cut deals with [/FONT][/FONT]Comcast, Verizon, Cablevision Cox, Charter, AT&T and Suddenlink.
The newspaper adds that the agreements with DIRECTV, Dish and Time Warner Cable are good as done but final details still need to be worked out. Sports Business Journal is also reporting that Bright House Networks will carry the channel as well.
By Swanni
Washington, D.C. (August 14, 2013) -[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT]Fox Sports 1 has signed carriage agreements with DIRECTV, Dish and Time Warner Cable, reports The Los Angeles Times. The three major pay TV providers will carry the channel when it launches on Saturday, August 17.
The channel intends to be a serious competitor to ESPN for the crown of top national sports network. The channel will feature many of the Fox Network's top talent, including Erin Andrews, and it [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]will begin airing regular season and playoff MLB games in 2014. Fox executives say they hope to add NFL games at some point.
The Times writes that the deals with the three TV providers cited above means that Fox Sports 1 will be available in the majority of pay TV homes at launch. Fox earlier cut deals with [/FONT][/FONT]Comcast, Verizon, Cablevision Cox, Charter, AT&T and Suddenlink.
The newspaper adds that the agreements with DIRECTV, Dish and Time Warner Cable are good as done but final details still need to be worked out. Sports Business Journal is also reporting that Bright House Networks will carry the channel as well.
Hopefully their blackout agreement isn't as draconian as the broadcast Fox network, which basically states that since we are airing a MLB game, all other MLB games that air during that time must be blacked out for everyone.
My hope is that this means that they will stop a doing regional game of the week. It would be nice if they would just put one game on Fox, one on FS1, and one on FS2 and let us pick which one to watch. If they want to lock up the exclusive rights to 3 or more games every Saturday by keeping them off EI and MLB.tv they should at least give us a way to watch all of them. Of course, this probably won't happen but I can dream.
Yeah, but I think if someone was being stubborn (Dish) we'd be hearing about it. Sounds like things are going well to me.
Still, my point is, if they are airing 3 games nationally on the 3 channels, they better not block out all the other games they/re not airing like Fox does now.
According to the Fox Sports 1 website it will air on channel 150 starting Saturday. Bye bye Speed.
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Typically there are no other games at the same time as the Fox broadcasts. Usually they pick 3 or 4 games every Saturday and assign only one to each region. They still black out the games they are showing in other regions on MLB.tv and EI. I'm not a fan of this because as a MLB.tv subscriber I expect to be able to watch any game I want.
Usually there won't be any non-Fox games during the Fox window though. Sometimes there are for rain out makeups or other things but most of the time they don't schedule games when they know they can't broadcast them on TV.
Yeah, ive seen some off the wall sites report that Directv, Dish and TWC deals are done for FS1. Looking good.
Wonder about FXX now.
Wonder about FXX now.
Here is the press release...
FOX SPORTS 1 TO LAUNCH ACROSS ALL MAJOR DISTRIBUTORS
NEW NATIONAL SPORTS CHANNEL DEBUTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 17
Fox’s new national sports network, FOX Sports 1, will debut on Saturday, August 17th, with every major distributor on board, making this the biggest sports cable network launch in history, and one of the largest network launches ever. The announcement was made by Mike Hopkins, President, Distribution, Fox Networks.
“We are thrilled that virtually all pay-television customers across America will haveaccess to FOX Sports 1,” said Mr. Hopkins. “This network launch is a major milestonefor Fox and will alter the sports television landscape. We are grateful to our distribution partners for making this all possible.”
At the outset, FOX Sports 1 boasts nearly 5,000 hours of live event, news and original programming annually. A robust schedule of live events forms the backbone of FOX Sports 1’s programming from Day 1, with college basketball, college football, NASCAR, soccer, boxing and UFC all on tap between launch and year’s end. In fact, the schedule on August 17th features live events morning, noon and night including a NASCARCamping World Truck Series race from Michigan and UFC FIGHT NIGHT: SHOGUN VS. SONNEN in prime time. In 2014, FOX Sport’s new rights agreement with MLB takes effect, bringing regular and postseason games to FOX Sports 1.
Viewers can learn where to find FOX Sports 1 on their system by visiting FOXSports1.com
FOX SPORTS 1 TO LAUNCH ACROSS ALL MAJOR DISTRIBUTORS
NEW NATIONAL SPORTS CHANNEL DEBUTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 17
Fox’s new national sports network, FOX Sports 1, will debut on Saturday, August 17th, with every major distributor on board, making this the biggest sports cable network launch in history, and one of the largest network launches ever. The announcement was made by Mike Hopkins, President, Distribution, Fox Networks.
“We are thrilled that virtually all pay-television customers across America will haveaccess to FOX Sports 1,” said Mr. Hopkins. “This network launch is a major milestonefor Fox and will alter the sports television landscape. We are grateful to our distribution partners for making this all possible.”
At the outset, FOX Sports 1 boasts nearly 5,000 hours of live event, news and original programming annually. A robust schedule of live events forms the backbone of FOX Sports 1’s programming from Day 1, with college basketball, college football, NASCAR, soccer, boxing and UFC all on tap between launch and year’s end. In fact, the schedule on August 17th features live events morning, noon and night including a NASCARCamping World Truck Series race from Michigan and UFC FIGHT NIGHT: SHOGUN VS. SONNEN in prime time. In 2014, FOX Sport’s new rights agreement with MLB takes effect, bringing regular and postseason games to FOX Sports 1.
Viewers can learn where to find FOX Sports 1 on their system by visiting FOXSports1.com
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