U.S. HISPANIC
Fox Sports Media Group renews exclusive rights to UEFA Champions League through 2014/15 season
Maribel Ramos-Weiner| 4 de enero de 2011
David Hill, Fox Sports Media Group Chairman and CEO
Fox Sports Media Group announced that it has renewed its exclusive media rights in the United States and Caribbean to the UEFA Champions League, the world’s most prestigious annual club soccer competition, for three additional seasons from 2012/13 through 2014/15.The agreement with UEFA ensures comprehensive coverage of the tournament on multiple FSMG properties including Fox Sports, Fox Soccer Channel, Fox Soccer Plus, Fox Deportes, Fox Sports Net (FSN) and FX, as well as online video streaming service {Foxsoccer.tv} throughout the first half of this decade. Fox is currently in the second of a three-season partnership with UEFA through 2011/12, delivering for the first time ever all 146 UEFA Champions League matches from the Play-off Round onward to U.S. viewers.“Our enhanced commitment to the UEFA Champions League for three additional seasons means that the Fox Sports Media Group remains America’s home for the absolute best in international club soccer,” said David Hill, Fox Sports Media Group Chairman and CEO.“In 2009, Fox made an unprecedented commitment to bring the UEFA Champions League to the widest possible U.S. audience, and with this renewal agreement we have raised the amount of coverage to even greater heights,” said David Nathanson, General Manager of Fox Soccer.
