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Fox Sports expands IndyCar deal in Australia
Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has expanded a rights agreement with the IndyCar North American motorsport series for the 2020 season
Fox Sports Brasil’s Zebini heads for exit
Eduardo Zebini, senior vice-president and chief content officer at pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Brasil, has left his position and is set to take up another role in the sports media sector
NFL conference title games take unexpected ratings dip
Collective audience is smallest since 2009, bucking season-long audience improvement for league
NFL generates 7-per-cent US ratings boost during Wild Card weekend
First weekend of playoffs continues audience gains for the league shown during the regular season
Fox Sports betting show ‘Lock It In’ pilots New York area special edition
Fox Sports 1's nationally-televised sports betting show Lock It In piloted a special regional edition in the New York area over the weekend.
Local Uruguayan version of Fox Sports to stop broadcasting
Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports is set to cease operating its local version in Uruguay amid a change in business strategy
Fox Sports garners season-best college football audience with Ohio State-Michigan
Resumption of classic Big 10 rivalry is big draw for network
Brazilian regulator to review approval of Disney-Fox deal
Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defence (Cade), the competition regulator, has ruled that the planned acquisition of 21st Century Fox by the Walt Disney Company will be subjected to a review.
Basketball Australia readies streaming platform for WNBL
Basketball Australia has said the Women’s National Basketball League will receive landmark coverage in 2019-20 as it enters the final season of its current rights deal with pay-television broadcaster F…
Dutch court rules out Fox Sports Eredivisie carriage probe
A Dutch court has ruled that the country’s competition regulator is not required to launch an investigation into the carriage agreement model for Fox Sports’ Eredivisie premium channels.
Big Ten Network shifts streaming content to Fox Sports app
The Big Ten Network (BTN) is shutting down its BTN2Go OTT platform and will move all its network content to the Fox Sports app, including games, studio shows and original programming
Fox Sports backs Extreme E’s climate change mission
Fox Sports has agreed a three-season deal to broadcast Extreme E, a new electric SUV off-road racing series, across the US, Canada and the Caribbean
Fox sublicenses Big East basketball games to CBS Sports from 2019-25
Fox Sports will sublicense Big East men's college basketball matches to CBS Sports from 2019-20 to 2024-25.
In total 20 games a season will air on CBS networks over the six seasons
Fox Sports enters betting sphere with Stars deal
The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has made a significant move into sports betting through an agreement with Stars Group that will lead to the launch of Fox Bet, the first-of-its-kind national media…
XFL steps up launch plans with ESPN, Fox Sports deals
The XFL has agreed multi-year rights deals with US sports broadcaster ESPN and the Fox Sports division of the Fox network as the new American football league prepares for its 2020 launch
Fox Sports, Caffeine land rights to 2019 Fifa esport events
Fox Sports has acquired media rights in the US to the finals of various EA Sports Fifa 19 Global Series events, including the season-ending Fifa eWorld Cup 2019, while social broadcasting platform Caffeine…
Disney completes 21st Century Fox deal, Fox Sports spun off into new firm
The Walt Disney Company has completed its acquisition of the majority of 21st Century Fox’s assets, with the remainder - including Fox Sports - now spun off into a new company, the Fox Corporation.
Mexico regulator orders Disney to sell Fox Sports within six months
Mexico’s antitrust regulator, IFT, has ordered Disney to sell the Fox Sports channel in the country and its associated media rights within the next six months as a condition of its approval of the company’s $71…