New York Times story: Fox creating rival to ESPN

[admin]

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?

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

[jkc_dawgs]

When are they supposed to replace Speed?

[admin]

When are they supposed to replace Speed?

Fox Sports 1 will begin in August.

[Jet915]

I'm hopeful about Fox. They really invest in their products unlike CBS and NBC. Hopefully they can make a dent into the ESPN monopoly.

[mayday]

I like the similarity to the start of the original Big East. Grouping together with the idea of making a great basketball conference arm and arm with a start up Sports Programing Network

[whiteandblue77]

That article calls the c7 "some conference yet to be formed" and calls the Big East the
Big East... They need to announce this thing NOW or repent for their sloth

[Vegas Jim]

White&Blue,
+1. When launching any new proposal, it's always best to define it yourself, rather than leave it to the uninformed and speculation gurus, with or without an alterior motive. Avoidable delay doesn't usually serve a new enterprise, IMO.
Just ask Romney!