ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Greg Norman is no longer part of the golf team for Fox Sports, according to published reports. Golfweek Magazine and Golf.com reported Sunday night that the […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Hall of Famer John Smoltz has been promoted to Fox’s lead baseball analyst and will work alongside play-by-play man Joe Buck, displacing Harold Reynolds and Tom […]
Outkick the Show, shot entirely with iPhones and iPads, is live streamed simultaneously to four platforms: Facebook, Periscope, YouTube and Fox Sports Go. The show, which covers sports and pop culture, streams daily at noon.
Several big media companies have agreed to make content available for a planned YouTube subscription service that will let consumers watch videos without any ads, despite their initial reservations, people familiar with the matter say. The companies that have signed up include Time Warner’s Turner cable unit, Fox Sports, A+E Networks and NBCUniversal. Disney is among those that remain in negotiations.
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Seeing low engagement on its platforms, Fox Sports brought together a cross-disciplinary team that spanned sales, ad ops, engineering, finance and product design. Six weeks after relaunching its sties, FoxSports.com has witnessed a 23% lift in pageviews and 37% increase in time spent per visitor who came via social media.
Fox Sports Engage is a multiplatform branded-content distribution program that aims to give advertisers a wider audience. Fox Sports Engage will distribute branded content across a variety of social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. But here’s the kicker: Fox Sports will guarantee that a certain amount of people will see the content.
Both networks took home 11 trophies at Tuesday night’s 36th annual Sports Emmy Awards. Fox Sports trailed close behind, taking home eight statues, including the first ever for Fox Sports 1.
Jamie Horowitz has been named as president of Fox Sports National Networks. The hiring marks the former ESPN executive’s return to sports following his short-lived role as senior VP-GM at Today, which he exited in November. Horowitz will now oversee all programming, marketing and scheduling for Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2 and will report to Fox Sports president-COO Eric Shanks.
Pete Rose may be banned from Major League Baseball, but apparently that won’t keep him from talking about the national pastime for someone else. The veteran All-Star known to legions of fans as “Charlie Hustle” will serve Fox Sports as a guest studio analyst, the 21st Century Fox unit announced Saturday.
AOL and Fox Sports have struck a multi-year video content deal that will see Fox’s game highlights and potentially co-produced original content around sporting events hosted online by AOL. AOL has been expanding its sports presence of late through a number of publisher partnerships.
Fox Sports’ local streaming talks with MLB have hit a snag, putting a crimp in a years-long negotiation that had picked up in recent weeks, according to several sources. As little as three weeks ago, both sides believed that a deal was close. But talks cooled as Fox Sports simultaneously was negotiating long-term local TV rights extensions with two of its teams: the St. Louis Cardinals and Arizona Diamondbacks.
NEW YORK (AP) — At least six television networks said Thursday they plan to stop or minimize airings of video showing Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice striking his then-fiancee […]
Fox Sports Regional Networks has inked a multiyear licensing agreement with technology platform Burst that will allow the sports programmer to distribute original video content on social and digital platforms, as well as crowdsource user-generated video.
Fox Sports will offer more than 140 college football games this season, featuring Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Conference USA teams, through Fox Sports GO and BTN2Go. Fox Sports GO, the app that provides live streaming video of Fox Sports content at home or on-the-go, will carry all college football games airing on Fox broadcast network, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports Regional Networks, Fox College Sports and Fox Deportes.
A just-announced partnership between digital sportsbrands, Fox Sports Digital and Sporting News Media plans to offer comprehensive digital sports video and editorial coverage across the Web with a projected reach of at least 55 million digital sports fans in the U.S. every month.
The MLB All-Star Game has always been an “active test site” of sorts for Fox Sports. Although the Midsummer Classic is one of the premier sports events of the summer, Fox’s production team uses this A-level broadcast as a technological tryout with an eye toward October and the postseason. To cover the action at Target Field in Minneapolis tonight, Fox is deploying 4K workflows, futuristic graphics enhancements and a bevy of high-frame-rate cameras.
Erin Andrews will be replacing Pam Oliver as the NFL sideline reporter for Fox’s No. 1 team. For her 20th season as a sideline reporter for Fox, Oliver will be part of the No. 2 team. After this season, she will discontinue reporting on the sidelines to work on other pieces and productions for Fox Sports as part of a multi-year contract, as well as continue her role on Showtime’s 60 Minutes Sports.
NBC had televised the U.S. Open every year since 1995 at Shinnecock Hills with the love-him-or-hate-him Miller as its lead analyst. The U.S. Golf Association’s 12-year deal with Fox Sports begins next year. Producer Tommy Roy had said the only mention of the farewell would come during the sign-off Sunday. He kept his word, and NBC left most of the sentimentality out of the broadcast.
A watershed moment in Major League Soccer’s 18-year history will occur this week, as the league is poised to announce new media rights deals that will bring in far more revenue and lead to a consistent, streamlined television schedule. The eight-year deals with ESPN, Fox and Univision are priced five times higher than the average annual value of the league’s current media deals.
Longtime NFL-MLB announcer Joe Buck will join golf legend Greg Norman covering the USGA Championships next year. The golf world is going to be “blown away with the effort and the ability that we’re going to throw at this,” promised Buck.
The eight-time Emmy winner directed 21 seasons of NFL coverage hosted by John Madden and Pat Summerall for CBS and Fox. He came to Fox from CBS with Madden and Summerall for the 1994 season, when Fox first got NFC rights — a major boon for the network. He was 78.
Fox Sports detailed some its Super Bowl XLVIII plans last week during a couple of conference calls, and among the technical highlights will be the use of wind forecasting overlays similar to those used in the America’s Cup sailing as well as infrared cameras that can track body heat.
Users of the Fox Sports Go app will have access to English and Spanish feeds of Feb. 2’s Super Bowl XLVIII. The event will be Fox Sports’ first live stream of the Super Bowl.
Fox Sports will use this weekend’s NFC title game in Seattle between the San Francisco 49ers and the Seahawks to test an infrared camera that will show how players’ body temperatures change throughout the game; another device will show how wind affects a quarterback or kicker; and the network will have more high-tech 4K cameras than ever before.
The network is building on technologies used during last year’s MLB playoffs — like its super slow-mo Phantom Cam — and plans to test new technologies out of the lab during the ALCS and World Series, such as a picture overlay feature that shows multiple pitches at once. Mike Davies, VP field operations at Fox Sports, also hopes to test out a new 4K version of the Phantom Cam during the World Series.
