Fox Soccer (formerly Fox Soccer Channel & Fox Sports World before that) was an American television specialty channel specializing in soccer , owned by 21st Century Fox , which operated from 1997 to 2013. It formerly broadcast rugby and Australian rules football , but in its final years it was devoted strictly to soccer.
37-770: Fox Sports 2 ( FS2 ) is an American sports-oriented pay television channel owned by the Fox Sports Media Group , a unit of Fox Corporation . The channel is based at the Fox Sports division's headquarters on the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City section of Los Angeles, California . The network was founded as Fuel TV on July 1, 2003, focusing on the culture of extreme sports , including skateboarding , snowboarding , wakeboarding , motocross , surfing , BMX and FMX . The network's prominence expanded further with
74-693: A CW affiliate) in Chattanooga, Tennessee , airing on Saturday evenings at midnight. After nearly 100 episodes, News Corporation and CJ Oliveras took notice and eventually negotiated a buyout of the concept and trademark from Braly in late 2003. This weekly episodic version of Fuel TV aired its final episode in September of that year just as FOX was launching their Fuel TV cable and satellite network. The Fuel TV cable and satellite channel featured programs ranging from original series, exclusive events, licensed films and creative interstitials. Extreme sports programming
111-588: A comprehensive recap of the day in sports; likely this was due to 2010 World Cup highlights exclusivity by American rightsholder ESPN , in addition to Sky Sports News converting their operations to high definition . The 2am simulcast of Sky Sports News was restored in August 2010 with the start of the European season. All simulcasts of Sky Sports News were discontinued on July 1, 2013, as Fox Soccer began their wind-down of operations, with Fox apparently deciding not to carry
148-565: A couple of studio-based shows surrounding its game coverage. In 2006, Fox Soccer announced that they had dropped coverage of other sports other than soccer. Amongst the leagues dropped were Super Rugby ( rugby union ), the Australian Football League (the principal Australian rules football league), and the Australian National Rugby League . The Super 14 games resided on Setanta Sports USA until it went off
185-411: A live prime-time match – though highlights of that game would not be included because the show is taped), with a few re-airs overnight and during the morning. With the launch of Fox Sports 1, the program was replaced by an in-house soccer news program, Fox Soccer Daily , on August 19, 2013 (Sportsnet continued to produce and air the prior program as Soccer Central ), though that show was canceled by
222-511: A spin-off channel which launched in 2010, continues to operate. Launched on November 1, 1997, to March 27, 2005, when it was originally known as Fox Sports World , the channel took its final name March 28, 2005 to July 31, 2011, later dropping the word "channel" from its name on August 1, 2011 to September 1, 2013. Fox Soccer offered its own game programming for United States soccer leagues through arrangements with outside production companies. Most of Fox Soccer's coverage which originated outside
259-828: The Australian Football League moved to Fox Sports 2 from Fox Soccer Plus (simulcast from Australia via the Seven Network along with full coverage of the State of Origin series live from Australia's Nine Network . This move has proven popular with fans in the United States due to the growing fanbase for Australian rules football in the country. According to the websites of the Australian Football Association of North America and Fox Soccer Plus, Fox Sports has extended its current deal until 2016. Fox Sports 2 televised some regular season games and finals matches, while most of
296-612: The CONCACAF region (North America, Central America, Caribbean) consisted of picking up international broadcast feeds to which Fox Soccer had the U.S. broadcast rights. The A-League broadcasts were produced by Fox Sports (Australia) . The English coverage generally came to Fox Soccer direct from IMG , Input Media and The Media Company, which produce the Premier League and FA Cup/England national team world feed broadcasts and Fox Soccer News reports respectively. The network's soccer coverage
333-553: The UFC 200 preliminary card (moved due to baseball overruns on FS1) drew an average of 582,000 viewers, a network high. The first main card bout of UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov also aired on FS2 in April 2017, drawing an average of 430,000 viewers. After the move of the rights for the UFC to ESPN and ESPN+ in 2019, its schedule has become more varied, and is less tied to a certain sport than in
370-469: The 1989 roller derby program RollerGames . List of sports television channels Sports channels are television speciality channels (usually available exclusively through cable and satellite ) broadcast sporting events , usually live, and when not broadcasting events, sports news and other related programming. The first sports channel was from the SportsChannel networks, which went on
407-582: The 2015 season was aired on Fox Soccer Plus. As of 2019, UFC-related programming no longer airs on the channel due to UFC's new deal with ESPN which started that same year. The New York Racing Association provides a substantial portion of FS2's daytime programming, carrying live racing from its tracks under the banner America's Day at the Races , with select races airing on FS1 and the NYRA-sanctioned Belmont Stakes airing on Fox. In May 2018, it
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#1733093693408444-496: The Europe-based Extreme Sports Chanternberg, CJ Olivares and Lloyd Bryan Adams. Originally, the name FUEL TV was conceived and launched as a regional weekly tv show that was also focused on extreme sports and indie music by Chris Braly, founder and president of BIG Studios production company. That series first debuted on broadcast television on September 8, 2001, on WB affiliate WFLI-TV (channel 53, now
481-678: The Extreme Sports Channel and Extreme Sports TV distribution and production company Extreme . The concept, taken by Gosling to David Sternberg of Fox Sports Net , focused on expanding the coverage of extreme sports. This was translated into growing the existing programming block on the regional sports networks Fox Sports Net airing in the early evenings during the early 2000s on the network's affiliates, which included Blue Torch TV and EX TV , and combining it with brokered arrangements for individual shows which included among others New Waves Surf Television and 16MM , along with ideas from
518-451: The air in 1977 with the original SportsChannel (now MSG Plus ). ESPN began broadcasting in 1979. Since then, many channels have surfaced around the world, many focusing on one sport in particular, or one region of a country, showing only their local team's games. These networks have greatly improved the availability of sports broadcasts, generating opportunities such as the ability for one person to see every single game their team plays over
555-512: The air in early 2010, while ESPN offers the AFL. In return, Setanta gave Fox Soccer the rights to some national team matches that would not otherwise air live. After Setanta's demise in the US, News Corporation acquired most of Setanta USA's former rights and created the new Fox Soccer Plus as a second broadcast outlet. Fox Sports World originally filled out its schedule with an eclectic mix of programming; among
592-539: The channel as Fox Sports 2 took place on August 17, 2013, at the same time that Speed was replaced by Fox Sports 1. Upon the relaunch, the channel was expanded into a mainstream sports service with a wider variety of content, although combat sports (such as UFC programs) remained an integral part of the lineup. Fuel's signature UFC program, UFC Tonight , moved over to Fox Sports 1 with the launch. The network's two highest-rated telecasts came from UFC events temporarily airing on FS2 due to overruns on FS1. The first bout of
629-409: The channel's original series being carried over to the channel from FX. Fox Soccer's run ended with a final full run of Being: Liverpool on September 2 from midnight–6am ET (with an FXX disclaimer card before the program), leading into FXX airing the pilot episode of Parks and Recreation an hour later at 7am ET, with paid programming with an FXX disclaimer card in front of each paid program in
666-586: The circuit such as the weekly UFC Tonight , along with undercard fights for UFC pay-per-view events. By the second half of 2012, Fuel TV's lineup consisted solely of combat sports (such as MMA and boxing) and reruns of reality programs from sister channel Speed . With the 2012–13 Premier League season, extra live and recorded Premier League matches were carried on Fuel TV, giving Fox Soccer three channels to carry live matches on Premier League match days; this began in May 2012 with Fuel carrying one of nine games on
703-2540: The course of the season. In the United States, these channels broadcast most regular season games of major pro sports league and many other sports as well, with over the air television networks stepping in during the weekends or special events (all-star games, championships, etc.). † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of news channels, only offers sports part-time National sports networks National sports networks † – Channel primarily televises others types of news or entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time Premium, streaming and ethnic sports networks National sports networks † – Channel primarily televises others types of news or entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time National sports networks † – Channel primarily televises others types of news or entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time Regional sports networks † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV programmes, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV programmes, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV programmes, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of programs, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV programmes, only offers sports part-time †† - Channel televises entertainment and also sports. † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV programmes, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV & news programmes, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV programmes, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of movies channels, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time Fox Soccer Due to Fox consolidating its cable sports rights on
740-412: The day (along with coverage of other international sports such as rugby , cricket and British horse racing .), along with the morning rundown of English newspaper sports pages. During the international off-season from May–August 2010 the 2am simulcast of the 7am GMT hour was replaced with a tape-delayed broadcast of Sky News at Ten from SSN & Fox Soccer sister network Sky News , which features
777-514: The end of the year. It was replaced with NFL playoff and NASCAR-focused programming and eventually, a video simulcast of Mike Francesa's radio program . Fox lost the U.S. television rights to broadcast Premier League soccer events to NBC , and the Italian Serie A , French Ligue 1 and EFL Championship rights to beIN Sports . As a result, Fox Soccer was replaced on September 2, 2013, by FXX , an entertainment sister network to FX . All of
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#1733093693408814-487: The final day of the Premier League season as part of Fox Sports's " Survival Sunday " effort to air all that day's Premier League matches across the division's cable properties. In March 2013, Fuel TV began airing coverage of the Rugby Football League (RFL) Super League and Championship . In January 2013, alongside reports that Speed was to be replaced by a national sports network known as Fox Sports 1 (which
851-569: The hour between. The channel properly transferred from Fox Soccer to FXX an hour later, when a clip of FC Barcelona 's Lionel Messi about to score a goal (two scenes taken from the UEFA Champions League matches on April 3, 2012, and March 12, 2013) was broken up by Frank Reynolds ( Danny DeVito ) of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia coming through a leather couch (representing a television screen being "torn" through) being "birthed" in
888-709: The introduction of UFC mixed martial arts programming to its lineup in 2012 as part of a wider deal with Fox Sports. On August 17, 2013, Fuel TV was rebranded as Fox Sports 2, refocusing primarily as an overflow channel for the newly launched mainstream sports network Fox Sports 1 . The relaunch of Fuel TV as FS1's sister network received little advanced promotion. As of September 2018, approximately 57.5 million households (62.3 percent of households with cable TV) received Fox Sports 2. By June 2023, this number has dropped to 52.6 million households. The network's concept originated in several extreme sports programming concepts. One of them originated from Alistair Gosling, founder of
925-563: The middle of 2012, the morning hours on non-game days (when the English and European afternoon is timed to in the United States) and some odd afternoon half hours were slotted with paid programming time until additional loops of Fox Soccer News and Sky Sports News were placed in those slots. The 720p high definition simulcast of Fox Soccer launched in January 2010. The signature promo voice of
962-617: The network was Jimmy Hodson. The channel focused on soccer throughout the world. In the final year, the network's rights included; (all rights have moved to Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2 ) Fox Soccer picked up the feed from its corporate cousin, Sky Sports News in the United Kingdom . In 2007, Fox Soccer began running the feed live at 2 a.m., noon and 7 p.m. Eastern Time (the 7 p.m. edition moved to Fox Soccer Plus effective September 2010). This arrangement dates back to its days as Fox Sports World, and offers updated soccer news throughout
999-453: The new general-interest channels Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2 , and following the loss of United States television rights to broadcast Premier League soccer events to NBC , Fox Soccer was replaced on September 2, 2013, by FXX , an entertainment sister network to FX . The vast majority of the remaining sports programming from Fox Soccer has been moved to Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, which launched on August 17, 2013. Fox Soccer Plus ,
1036-482: The nude (a scene taken from the 2009 Christmas special episode A Very Sunny Christmas ), suggesting the "birthing" of FXX. The last live international event carried was a UEFA Champions League match between Celtic F.C. and FC Shakhter Karagandy from Celtic Park on August 28. The last live match to be carried by the network altogether was the National Women's Soccer League final between Portland Thorns FC and
1073-589: The past. Fox Sports 2 features reruns of some of the news and analysis programs broadcast by Fox Sports 1. Sports programming post-UFC includes overflow coverage of events aired by Fox Sports 1, such as Big East basketball, Mountain West football and basketball, and NASCAR , along with second-tier programming that formerly would have aired as part of the Fox Sports Networks schedule. Fox Sports 2 also shows select ARCA Menards Series races live. Limited coverage of
1110-460: The program over to either Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, or Fox Soccer Plus. From September 2002 to August 16, 2012, Fox Soccer's flagship studio program was Fox Soccer Report (originally Fox Sports World Report ), anchored by Michelle Lissel , Eoin O'Callaghan and Asa Rehman , with former Scottish amateur footballer Bobby McMahon , produced by the Shaw Media -owned Fox Sports World Canada at
1147-462: The remaining sports programming from Fox Soccer was moved to Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2 , which launched on August 17, 2013. FXX's primary focus is on comedies (resulting in FX and FXX maintaining a genre-based format similar to that of TBS and TNT ) and features original and acquired comedy series, though feature films and some drama series are also broadcast on FXX – with first-run episodes of some of
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1184-589: The sports featured (either in anthology form or actual events) were motorsports (prior to News Corporation's acquisition of SPEED, now Fox Sports 1 ), cricket , pool , darts , and extreme sports . It also aired the Final Four of the Euroleague in basketball ; that league is now more extensively covered by NBA TV . Cricket, pool and darts currently see American coverage on Willow and ONE World Sports , which also now broadcasts some Sky Sports programming. Until
1221-593: The studios of CKND Winnipeg . After Fox Sports World ceased operations in April 2012, Fox Soccer made similar arrangements with the Canadian sports channel Sportsnet for a replacement program. The Sportsnet-produced Fox Soccer News began airing August 17, 2012, with hosts Brendan Dunlop , Kara Lang , Ben Ennis, and analyst Thomas Rongen ; McMahon also moved to Sportsnet and continued with Fox Soccer News , providing continuity between Fox Soccer Report and Fox Soccer News . It aired nightly at 10 p.m. Eastern (or after
1258-482: Was formerly the bulk of the network, with a diverse combination of sports, music, reality programming, extreme sports news and other content, including comedic programs. Beginning in late 2011, Fuel became the official cable home of the Ultimate Fighting Championship as part of a broader agreement between Fox and the mixed martial arts promotion , featuring pre-match and analysis programming involving
1295-540: Was not limited to game play; Fox Soccer aired reruns of Dream Team , a British soap opera that aired in the UK on Fox Soccer's corporate cousin Sky One until 2007 and focused on a fictional Premiership team. The channel also televised a live soccer talk-show, Fox Football Fone-in , featuring viewer calls and predictions for that weekend's Premier League matches. During the Premier League term, Fox Soccer also produced and aired
1332-447: Was officially announced by Fox on March 5, 2013, for an August 17 launch), it was reported that Fox was planning to rebrand Fuel TV as Fox Sports 2–a name which Fox had filed a trademark application for on November 27, 2012. As opposed to the widely publicized launch of Fox Sports 1, the impending replacement of Fuel TV with Fox Sports 2 was met with relatively little fanfare, and was only announced roughly one week prior. The relaunch of
1369-487: Was reported that due to viewer backlash surrounding a preemption of part of a Washington / Stanford football game from FS1 to FS2 due to a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, that Fox would now prefer using Fox Business Network (which has distribution more in line with FS1, and only carries non-critical paid programming on weekends) for Pac-12 overflow in the future. In 2020, Fox Sports 2 started broadcasting weekly Major League Rugby matches as well as reruns of
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