The Fox News channel is one of America’s leading cable news and satellite channels. Owned by the Fox Entertainment Group it has a viewership of around 102 million people throughout the Usa. In addition, it broadcasts to an international audience airing programs mainly from its NY city studios.
Fox news was developed by the media mogul Rupert Murdoch and was launched in 1996 and rose to prominence steadily gaining the location of US number one news network. Fox sports, on the other hand, has been in existence since 1994 and functions like a division with the Fox Broadcasting Company. They began with broadcasting the National Football League games and progressed to receiving the rights of broadcasting the National Hockey League, NASCAR, Major League Baseball and the Bowl Championship Series.
FOX Sports offers the exclusive coverage on the Daytona 500. Other than this they also exclusive cover other NASCAR events including Canadian Grand Prix, the US Grand Prix and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Auto racing is one of the most watched professional sports activities in the United States coming second only to professional football. Fox Sports brings these sporting events live from the race track to its viewers. Apart from these Fox Sports along with its sister concern, known as the Speed channels also covers the Formula One and Rolex 24 racing events.
Apart from auto racing the Fox Sports network also provides the exclusive coverage of the World Series and has been airing this Major League Baseball Championship since 2000 and also as per the new contract will be the exclusive broadcaster till 2013.
Fox Sports also operates with a network of regional broadcasters that assist to cover regional games. However, this operation is conducted in accordance with the broadcasting agreements following league market distribution terms and conditions. As they use the Speed Channel to cover the NASCAR and F1 events, the FOX Soccer channel broadcasts all major League and Premier League games. This channel is also owned by the News Corporation and focus on bringing soccer events news and stories from around the globe. They air live and taped matches from countries such as Argentina, England, Brazil, Japan, Italy Australia as well as the US. Among the other championships this network covers is UEFA Super Cup and also the UEFA Champions League.
FOX Sports also bring news and sports entertainment in the world of extreme sports. They have partnered with Fuel TV to bring across action sports including snowboarding, surfing, skateboarding, FMX and BMX events. Additionally, Fox Sports identified the magnitude of college sports in the nation and has 3 separate cable channels which cover college sports from throughout the country. They are known as the Fox College Sports Atlantic, Fox College Sports Pacific and Fox College Sports Central. These channels cover all of the action and news from college sports which are licensed from the NCAA for example baseball, football, soccer, wrestling, swimming, tennis etc.
The Fox Sports website bring across all the updates as well as the latest in sports news. They offer comprehensive coverage of all sporting events giving detailed sports information as well as the stories surrounding players and teams.