Tuesday, July 16, 2013

FS1 carriage talks sticky a month out




According to a report in Sports Business Journal:

A month before launching its much publicized all-sports network, Fox has yet to cut carriage deals with three of the country’s four biggest distributors, raising the possibility that its August launch of Fox Sports 1 will fall short of the 90 million homes the channel is expected to have.

DirecTV, Dish Network and Time Warner Cable — representing more than 46 million subscribers — still are negotiating to carry FS1 on Aug. 17, which is when Fox will turn its motorsports channel, Speed, into a multisport network.

(To read the rest here is a link)
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2013/07/15/Media/FS1.aspx

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