Fox Deportes (formerly Fox Sports en Español and stylized in

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as FOX Deportes) is an American

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dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming in

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, aimed at the Hispanic population in the

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. Launched in 1993, Fox Deportes, a division of

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, is the first and longest-running Spanish-language sports network in the country. Fox Deportes features a diversified programming, including NFL pre and post-season games, MLB regular-season, All-Star Game, Divisional Series, National League Championship Series and World Series, the USGA's U.S. Open, NASCAR, Premier Boxing Champions, college football and soccer competitions including Liga MX and MLS. The channel first launched in Southern California as La Cadena Deportiva Prime Ticket, a sister network to the original Prime Ticket regional sports network (the present day Bally Sports West), on November 1, 1993. The network was renamed Prime Deportiva on April 1, 1995 to align with the rebranding of Liberty Media-owned regional sports networks with the "Prime Sports" brand. After News Corporation (NewsCorp) formed a 50-50 sports television joint venture with Liberty Media, NewsCorp rebranded the network Fox Sports Américas on October 1, 1996. The network was rebranded Fox Sports World Español in February 1999 to align with the recently launched (November 1997) English-language soccer centric network Fox Sports World. In 2002, the network was rebranded as Fox Sports en Español before becoming Fox Deportes on October 1, 2010. As of February 2015, approximately 21,831,000 American households (18.8% of households with television) received Fox Deportes.

Programming

Association Football

The network holds rights to international football including

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, Liga MX and

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(matches hosted by CF Monterrey, FC Juárez, Santos Laguna and

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). During the 2018 FIFA World Cup, it carried replays of Fox's English-language coverage of the tournament.

American football

The network began to carry simulcasts of some

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games in 2013 with Spanish play-by-play and graphics, and starting with the 2013 Thanksgiving Game on Fox, also carries select NFL games from the NFL on Fox package featuring Spanish-language play-by-play and graphics, including Fox's NFC playoffs package (Fox continues to carry all NFL games with Spanish-language play-by-play via the SAP channel, regardless of a game also airing on Fox Deportes). The network also carried

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, a first for a Spanish-language sports network in the United States, and has continued to carry Super Bowls in years the Fox broadcast network holds the rights to the game.

Baseball

The network also serves as the Spanish-language home to

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, including the MLB All-Star Game, American and National League Championship Series (AL odd years, NL even years) and World Series. Although the Fox network itself has expanded the availability of SAP audio since the start of 2012 to expand the availability of

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of primetime programming and Spanish language audio to their NFL package, Fox Sports has chosen to retain Spanish audio of their MLB coverage exclusively on Fox Deportes for the time being.

Auto Racing

On October 9, 2010, Fox Deportes picked up Spanish language rights to

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coverage, a contract which ran through 2012. In August 2012,

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and Fox Deportes made a deal to have Fox Deportes Broadcast 15 races, 6 of them live, one of which is the Daytona 500.

Professional wrestling

As of October 2019, Fox Deportes holds the Spanish language rights to

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's '' Friday Night SmackDown'', which is aired in a live simulcast with Fox.

Sports news and talk

*'' Total Sports 360'' - Nightly news program produced at MEDIAPRO Mexico in Mexico City covers sports events that are of interest to Hispanics living in the U.S. *'' Punto Final'' - Nightly debate program produced at MEDIAPRO Mexico in Mexico City. FOX Deportes commentators and reporters based in Los Angeles, California, USA; as well as Juárez, Monterrey, Tijuana, and Torreón, Mexico will appear as needed. *'' El Chiringuito de Jugones'' - Fox Deportes in the United States holds the rights to this Spain-based nightly soccer talk show from

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, which focuses on coverage of the domestic

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and overall European soccer.

Ratings

2011 UEFA Champions League Final The 2011 UEFA Champions League Final was an association football match played on 28 May 2011 at Wembley Stadium in London that decided the winner of the 2010–11 season of the UEFA Champions League. The winners received the European Champion ...

: 1.57 millionUEFA Champions League Final on FOX & FOX Deportes Posts Best Audience in 4 Years
- TV By The Numbers, 9 June 2015 *

: 561,000 *

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: 1.45 million *

2015 Copa Libertadores The 2015 Copa Libertadores de América (officially the 2015 Copa Bridgestone Libertadores for sponsorship reasons) was the 56th edition of the Copa Libertadores de América, South America's premier club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. ...

finals (second leg): 979,000 *

2016 World Series The 2016 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 season. The 112th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Chicago Cubs and the American Leag ...

Game 7: 565,000 *

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: 650,000 (non-soccer record) *

2017 UEFA Champions League Final The 2017 UEFA Champions League Final was the final match of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, the 62nd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 25th season since it was renamed from the European Cup to th ...

: 1.24 millionUEFA Final Inches Up on FOX, Dips on Fox Deportes
- Paulsen, Sports Media Watch, 6 June 2017

References

External links

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