New York Times story: Fox creating rival to ESPN
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:55 pm
New York Times report on the new venture for Fox. Interesting note - ESPN has 98 million subscribers. Speed has 81 million. Our league is going to be available to just about as many people as the Big East games were on ESPN. Big Monday on Fox anyone?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/sport ... d=all&_r=0
One way to measure Fox Sports 1’s future success will be how many subscribers it gets and the subscriber fees it can accumulate. Fox has spent months working to convert Speed, a motorsports-centric network with 81 million subscribers, to Fox Sports
Fox is certainly asset-rich. It plans to use existing long-term deals to fill Fox Sports 1 with M.L.B. games, including some from the league division series, beginning in 2014; Nascar Sprint Cup and truck races; U.F.C. matches; future World Cup soccer matches; and Big 12 and Pac-12 football and basketball games, as well as those from a basketball conference that is being formed by the seven Catholic universities that are leaving the Big East. The new network is also expected to buy some Big East games from ESPN.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/sport ... d=all&_r=0