Fox Sports is the brand name for a number of sports channels, broadcast divisions, programming, and other media around the world.
The ''Fox Sports'' name has since been used for other sports media assets. These assets are held mainly by the
Fox Corporation, with the exceptions of the
operations in Australia, which are part of
Foxtel
Foxtel is an Australian pay television company—operating in cable television, direct broadcast satellite television, and IPTV streaming services. It was formed in April 2018, superseding an earlier company from 1995. The service was establi ...
(majority-owned by Fox Corp. sister company
News Corp Australia
News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp. One of Australia's largest media conglomerates, News Corp Australia employs more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,00 ...
) and the operations in Mexico are owned by Grupo Multimedia Lauman while the operations in Argentina are owned by
Mediapro but branding and contents are licensed to
Fox Corporation and the rest of the
international Fox Sports channels were sold to
The Walt Disney Company, following the acquisition.
Divisions
*
Fox Sports (United States)
Fox Sports, also referred to as Fox Sports Media Group and stylized in all caps as FOX Sports, is the sports programming division of the Fox Corporation that is responsible for sports broadcasts carried by the Fox broadcast network, Fox Sports ...
, also known as the Fox Sports Media Group.
*
Fox Sports International, an international sports programming and production entity of
The Walt Disney Company (previously owned by the
Fox Networks Group until
Disney's acquisition of most
21st Century Fox
Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., doing business as 21st Century Fox (21CF), was an American multinational mass media corporation that was based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was one of the two companies formed on June 28, 2013, f ...
assets), which distributes sports programming to various countries.
*
Fox Sports Australia, formerly Premier Media Group, owned by
Foxtel
Foxtel is an Australian pay television company—operating in cable television, direct broadcast satellite television, and IPTV streaming services. It was formed in April 2018, superseding an earlier company from 1995. The service was establi ...
(65% owned by
Murdoch
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...
-controlled
News Corp Australia
News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp. One of Australia's largest media conglomerates, News Corp Australia employs more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,00 ...
with
Telstra).
*
Fox Sports Argentina, owned by
Mediapro, branding licensed to
Fox Corporation[
* ]Fox Sports Mexico
Fox Sports is a Mexican pay television network operated by Grupo Multimedia Lauman. The network focuses on sports-related programming including live and pre-recorded event broadcasts, sports talk shows and original programming, available througho ...
, owned by Grupo Multimedia Lauman branding licensed to Fox Corporation
* FoxSports.com, a sports news website.
* Fox Sports Radio
Fox Sports Radio is an American sports radio network. Based in Los Angeles, California, the network is operated and managed by Premiere Networks in a content partnership with Fox Corporation's Fox Sports division and iHeartMedia, parent company ...
is a national sports talk radio network managed by Premiere Networks in partnership with Fox Sports.
Channels
Current channels
Australia
* Fox Sports (Australia)
Fox Sports Australia Pty Limited (formerly Premier Media Group Pty Limited) is the division of Foxtel that owns and operates the Fox Sports television networks and digital properties in Australia. The group operates nine Fox Sports Channels as w ...
, a group of sports channels
** Fox Sports News 500 - Cable and satellite channel that continuously televises sports news 24 hours per day.
** Fox Cricket 501 - A 24-hour dedicated Cricket
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channel
** Fox League
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502 - A 24-hour dedicated Rugby League channel
** Fox Sports 503
** Fox Footy 504 - primarily features the Australian Football League
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** Fox Sports 505
** Fox Sports 506
** Fox Sports More+ 507
Argentina
* Fox Sports (Argentina)
Fox Sports is a group of channels available in Argentina and operated by Mediapro. The network is focused on sports-related programming including live and pre-recorded event broadcasts, sports talk shows and original programming, available throug ...
, is an Argentine pay television network that broadcasts in Argentina.
** Fox Sports
** Fox Sports 2: formerly known as Fox Sports+
** Fox Sports 3: formerly known as Speed Channel, it was launched in 2012 and its programming is car-related.
Brazil
* Fox Sports 2: launched on January 24, 2014. Now run by Disney; will remain under that name until 31 December 2022, due to contractual language with CONMEBOL
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regarding its coverage of the 2022 Copa Libertadores
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On 14 May 2020, CONMEBOL announced t ...
.
Mexico
* Fox Sports (Mexico), is a Mexican pay television network that broadcasts in Mexico.
** Fox Sports
** Fox Sports 2: formerly known as Fox Sports+
** Fox Sports 3: formerly known as Speed Channel, it was launched in 2012 and its programming is car-related.
** Fox Sports Premium, is a pay-TV channel launched in 2022, it is specialised in broadcasting Mexican First Football Division matches.
United States
* Fox Sports 1 is a national sports network.
* Fox Sports 2 is a national sports network.
* Fox Deportes presents sports programming in Spanish.
* Fox Soccer Plus, a network with extended coverage of soccer and other international sport events; remains in operation even after closure of Fox Soccer.
Former channels
Africa
* Fox Sports Africa, launched in August 2014 in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Asia
* Fox Sports, was a group of sports channels available in East and Southeast Asia, formerly ESPN Star Sports. These channels were closed on October 1, 2021.
** Fox Sports, formerly ESPN.
** Fox Sports 2, formerly Star Sports.
** Fox Sports 3, formerly ESPN HD and Fox Sports Plus HD.
Brazil
* Fox Sports Brazil, It was the Brazilian division of Fox Sports, that included 2 channels aimed at broadcasting sporting events 24 hours a day.
** Fox Sports: since February 5, 2012 the channel was already available in all Brazil. On January 17, 2022, Fox Sports was renamed ESPN 4.
Canada
* Fox Sports World Canada, a defunct specialty channel
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primarily featuring soccer
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and other events around the world that operated from 2001 to 2012.
Latin America
* Fox Sports, was a group of channels broadcast across Mexico, Central, and South America. Its main channel was rebranded in January 2022 as ESPN4:
** Fox Sports
** Fox Sports 3 (not available in Brazil): formerly known as Speed Channel, it was launched in 2012
** Fox Sports Premium, is a pay-TV channel launched in 2017, it specialises in broadcasting Argentine First Football Division matches. Was rebranded as ESPN Premium.
Middle East
* Fox Sports Middle East was a sports channel that was distributed by Star Select
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as part of package television channels.
Netherlands
* Fox Sports (Netherlands)
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Israel
* Fox Sports Israel
Fox Sports was an Israeli television sports channel owned by Fox Networks Group and was launched on 11 August 2000.
Programming rights
American Football
* National Football League
Australian Rules Football
* Australian Football League
Baseba ...
was first broadcast in Israel back in 2001 by satellite provider yes
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Education
* YES Prep Public Schools, Houston, Texas, US
* YES (Your Extraordinary Saturday), a learning program from the Minnesota Institute for Talente ...
and since 2010 it broadcasts the HD version of the channel.
Italy
* Fox Sports Italy
Fox Sports was an Italian pay television sports channel that was launched on August 9, 2013. A second channel, Fox Sports 2 was launched on December 20, 2013. The first channel closed in late August 2018, after the second closed in 2015.
Progra ...
was an Italian sports channel launched in 2013 alongside Fox Sports Plus and Fox Sports 2, which carries soccer, MLB, NFL, NCAA Sports, Volley Champions League and Euroleague Basketball
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. In 2018, the channel has been dissolved.
Turkey
* Fox Sports Turkey was a sports channel that was distributed by the Turkish provider Digiturk
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.
South Korea
* JTBC3 Fox Sports
JTBC Golf&Sports is a South Korean cable TV sports channel. It was originally known as JTBC3 Fox Sports until 2020 but due to Disney phasing out the Fox brand it was renamed.
Programs
Current rights
Multi-sport events
* Olympic Games (f ...
, a sports channel was owned by joint owned by Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific and JTBC.
Japan
* Fox Sports & Entertainment
Fox Sports & Entertainment (formerly Fox BS238) was a Japanese general entertainment and sports television channel operated by BS-Fox, a subsidiary of Fox Networks Group Japan, which was owned by Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International. La ...
began producing sports shows in 2013, which are broadcast in several Fox channels. The channel closed on March 31, 2020.
United States
* Fox College Sports was a suite of three region-specific networks devoted to college sports that were sold to Diamond Sports Group
Diamond Sports Group LLC is an American media and entertainment company operating as a subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, and partnered with Entertainment Studios. The company operates Bally Sports, a group of regional sports channels which ...
in 2019.
* Fox Sports Networks
Fox Sports Networks (FSN), formerly known as Fox Sports Net, was the collective name for a group of regional sports channels in the United States. Formed in 1996 by News Corporation, the networks were acquired by The Walt Disney Company on Mar ...
was a collection of cable TV
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regional sports networks broadcasting across the United States that was sold to Diamond Sports Group in 2019. In 2021, Fox Sports is gone, with the channels now being branded as Bally Sports. These regional channels include:
** Fox Sports Arizona
** Fox Sports Carolinas
** Fox Sports Detroit
** Fox Sports Florida
** Fox Sports Indiana
Bally Sports Indiana (BSIN) is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts local professional and high school sports coverage throughout the state of Indi ...
** Fox Sports Kansas City
** Fox Sports Midwest
Bally Sports Midwest is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts regional e ...
** Fox Sports New Orleans
Bally Sports New Orleans is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group (a joint-venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios), and operated as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts local ...
** Fox Sports North
Bally Sports North is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as a Bally Sports affiliate. The channel broadcasts coverage of sporting events involving teams located in the Upper Midwest region, with a focu ...
** Fox Sports Ohio
Bally Sports Ohio is an American regional sports network owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group and is operated as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts regional coverage of sports events in the state of Ohio, with a focus on professio ...
** Fox Sports Oklahoma
** Fox Sports San Diego
** Fox Sports South
Bally Sports South (BSSO) is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports Networks. The network carries regional coverage of professional and collegiate sports events from across ...
** Fox Sports Southeast
Bally Sports Southeast (BSSE) (originally named SportSouth from its inception until October 4, 2015, and Fox Sports Southeast (FSSE) until March 31, 2021) is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint venture betw ...
** Fox Sports Southwest
** Fox Sports Sun
Bally Sports Sun is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts local coverage ...
** Fox Sports Tennessee
Fox Sports Tennessee (FSTN) was an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios, and operateed as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. The channel broa ...
** Fox Sports West
** Fox Sports Wisconsin
Bally Sports Wisconsin (BSWI) is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. Operating as the "Wisconsin" sub-feed of Fox Sports North until 2007, the channel was known as Fox S ...
** Fox Sports Northwest
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** Fox Sports Pittsburgh
** Fox Sports Rocky Mountain
** Fox Sports Utah
Root Sports Utah was an American regional sports network that was owned by the AT&T Sports Networks subsidiary of AT&T Inc., as part of the AT&T SportsNet brand of networks and is an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. Headquartered in Salt Lake Ci ...
** Prime Ticket Prime Ticket may refer to:
* Bally Sports West, a regional sports network that was known as Prime Ticket from 1985 to 1995
* Bally Sports SoCal
Bally Sports SoCal is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint v ...
** SportsTime Ohio
** YES Network
See also
* Fox Sports (United States)
Fox Sports, also referred to as Fox Sports Media Group and stylized in all caps as FOX Sports, is the sports programming division of the Fox Corporation that is responsible for sports broadcasts carried by the Fox broadcast network, Fox Sports ...
* Fox Sports International
* Sky Sports
References
External links
{{News Corporation
Cable network groups in the United States