Fox Sports Asia (formerly ESPN Star Sports) was a pan-Asian

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network broadcasting in Asia, operated by

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, a subsidiary of

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(Southeast Asia) Pte. Ltd. It also oversaw a version of Star Sports available in mainland China and South Korea. Originally launched in 1991 as Star Sports (earlier

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) and

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by Satellite Television Asian Region (STAR TV) and

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respectively, both parties agreed to combine their operations in Asia in October 1996.

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took the full control of the venture in 2012, and relaunched the channels in two phases in January 2013 and August 2014, respectively.

History

Early years

Star Sports

Hutchvision entered an agreement with TCI's Prime Network International in March 1991 to create a pan-Asian sports network reaching thirty countries and a potential audience of nearly three billion. Star Sports was first launched on 21 August 1991 as

() with the first program being '' New York City US Open Tennis'' featuring

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. It was an 24-hour multi-sport television channel broadcasting in English and Chinese. STAR TV, based in

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, operated the channel in partnership with TCI in the United States, which owned Prime-branded regional sports channels there. The channel was broadcast across the continent of Asia, reaching from the

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to the

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, as with

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's footprint. STAR TV has since regionalized the channel to serve its huge viewership. On 1 February 1996, the channel changed its logo from a previous logo used in 1991 to a box-type STAR symbol featuring a frame, a pentagram star, and a square. On 1 April 1999, the channel had a first major logo change from vertical to horizontal, along with other STAR TV channels. At that time, the feed was also used in the Southeast Asian Region aside from the Chinese Region (Taiwan and China) until 31 March 2001, when they split into dedicated channels for the Southeast Asian Region.

ESPN

was originally a part of the so-called "Gang of Five", which was a consortium that was set up to compete against STAR TV in the region. (The others in the group were

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TVB Superchannel">TVBS.html" ;"title="/nowiki>with TVBS">TVB Superchannel/nowiki> and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation [with ABC Australia (Asia-Pacific Television), Australia Television International]) The consortium's channels were initially transmitted via

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satellite, but were later also added to Apstar satellite. ESPN opened its production facility at New Tech Park in Lorong Chuan,

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in May 1995.

Operations combined as ESPN Star Sports

ESPN and Star Sports were competing with each other across Asia, but their businesses were making loss. In October 1996, both channels agreed to combine their operations in the region. The resulting joint venture, later named ESPN Star Sports, was to be headquartered in Singapore (where ESPN's operations in Asia had been based). On 16 January 1998, a version of Fox Sports was launched in the Middle East, as carried by Star Select. This apparently replaced ESPN STAR Sports in the region, but the pan-Asian version was available via the

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and

satellites.

Relaunch as Fox Sports

On 6 June 2012, it was announced that

would buy

's share in ESPN Star Sports. Later,

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took over ESPN Star Sports' businesses in India, and relaunched all of its sports channels under the Star Sports brand on 6 November 2013. In October 2012, Fox Football Channel was launched in

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. The channel ceased transmission in 2015. On 28 January 2013, ESPN and ESPN HD was relaunched as Fox Sports and Fox Sports Plus HD in Hong Kong,

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and Southeast Asia. The regional version of ESPNews was relaunched as Fox Sports News, and SportsCenter Asia was relaunched as Fox Sports Central. On 15 August 2014, Star Sports was rebranded as Fox Sports 2, and Fox Sports Plus HD was renamed Fox Sports 3 (or Fox Sports HD in

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

). The corresponding HD and SD versions of all three channels were also launched. The relaunch of ESPN Star Sports as Fox Sports did not affect much of East Asia, as a version of Star Sports broadcast to mainland China and South Korea kept the brand, and instead, the version of ESPN for

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was renamed as Star Sports 2 on 10 January 2014. ESPN International has since refocused on its digital business building out online properties for

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(ESPNFC),

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(

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(ESPNF1), and Australian

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(ESPNscrum), and established partnership with Multi Screen Media in India (

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TV channel until 31 March 2020),

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in the Philippines ( ESPN5 programming division until 13 October 2021),

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in mainland China (a dedicated ESPN section at qq.com), and

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in Singapore (local ad sales only for the ESPN website through its Partner Network division). On 31 March 2020, the website of Fox Sports Asia merged into and redirected to global version of ESPN website, remained unaffected for Fox Sports Asia socials. On March 8, 2021, Fox Sports partnered with Emtek's OTT media service

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to make the networks available for Indonesian viewers.

Closure

On September 18, 2020, Disney announced that it would shut down Fox Sports operations in Taiwan at end of 2020. It was later revealed that operations in Taiwan would end on January 1, 2021, following years on losing money in the region. On April 27, 2021, Disney announced that the Fox Sports network, along with the rest of Fox channels, would close down for good on October 1 after 30 years of broadcasting, folding the former Prime Sports/Star Sports Asia and ESPN Asia channel spaces, as they shift their focus to the latter streaming platform

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(or

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for Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand; although the launch in Vietnam was currently unknown). The last event covered by the channel was the Formula One 2021 Russian Grand Prix,

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and UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega. Prior to the shutdown, Korean sports network

SPOTV SPOTV is a South Korean pay television network, which features sports programming and some sports-related talk shows. Founded in 2010, the network is the fourth Pay television, premium sports network in South Korea following by KBS N, KBS N S ...

brought the licensee to cover up the remaining

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, taking over the Fox Sports network once their transmission goes offline, resuming the remaining MotoGP races. They also carried

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as well. Vietnam in the meantime has no TV broadcasters for MotoGP, until SPOTV officially launched on December 24, 2023. Hong Kong pay TV provider Now TV picked up the coverage of 2021 US Open along with the remaining races of the

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and future

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fights, prior to the closure of the Fox Sports network. The remaining coverage of both Formula One and UFC was aired on Malaysia

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for Astro SuperSport 5, which has been launched post-closure; Philippines Premier Sports from the

TAP Sports TAP Sports (stylized as tap Sports) is a Philippine pay television network of sports channels owned by TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation. It was launched on April 14, 2019, under two separate channels carried by Sky Cable, and was later re ...

network, which also replaced Fox Sports post-closure; Singapore

StarHub TV Star Hub TV is a pay television service provided by StarHub in Singapore. It has been a subsidiary of ''StarHub Limited'' since StarHub acquired ''Singapore Cable Vision'' (SCV) in 2001, and was the sole pay-TV operator in the country until 200 ...

and

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, for Hub Sports & Mio Sports respectively and even Thailand

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' True Sport. Mola streamed the remaining UFC fights in Indonesia while also carrying the sub-license to both Singapore & Malaysia for future Live fights with the inclusion of Dana White's Contender Series that hadn't been aired when Fox Sports mainly aired the UFC main events, meanwhile the Emtek group aired the remaining Formula One races for their Champions TV network along with their OTT media service

which previously carried the Fox Sports network to the service. As reported exclusively from SportBusiness, the Formula One coverage in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (excluding Vietnam, in which K+ owned the rights following the closure of the channel) has been transferred over to

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starting from 2023, which also carried both

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and

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tennis rights (except in Vietnam, which was owned by K+ and VTVcab respectively), awhile SPOTV, which already available across Southeast Asia (excluding Vietnam until December 24, 2023), will broadcast

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and the US Open. Awhile the extension for UFC coverage in Southeast Asia was yet to be finalized. The John Dykes Show was announced to be resumed on

in Malaysia, Indonesia & Thailand, then yet-to-be announced for other

territories including Singapore and Hong Kong as

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Originals. A few days after its closure, Disney relaunched the ESPN brand in Asia but as a digital media portal through its official YouTube channel and social media pages.

Channels

* Fox Sports (formerly

) * Fox Sports 2 (formerly

and Star Sports) * Fox Sports 3 (formerly ESPN HD and Fox Sports Plus HD) * (formerly

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): The channel was first launched as ESPNews in November 2009 in Singapore on

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's Mio TV, and later expanded to other areas, including Hong Kong, where it was launched in August 2011 on

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's Now TV. The channel was renamed as Fox Sports News on 28 January 2013. The channel was gradually discontinued in 2017: It ceased broadcasting on 1 April 2017 in most areas, but continued until 24 April in Hong Kong, 3 May in Malaysia, and 31 May in Taiwan. *: The channel was launched in October 2012 in Malaysia. Its programming was mainly consisted of association football matches and shows. It ceased broadcasting in 2015. FoxFootballChannel

Regions

The individual regional feeds of Fox Sports channels include: * Hong Kong: Additionally, a schedule variant is offered to Hong Kong Cable Television customers due to

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issues. This variant which was transmitted by Fox Networks Group Hong Kong and produced from the studios in Hong Kong. The headquarters closed on October 1, 2021. * Indonesia: This variant which was transmitted by Fox Networks Group Indonesia and produced from the studios in Indonesia. The headquarters closed on November 12, 2021. * Malaysia and Brunei: This feed does not provide coverage of

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events. This variant which was transmitted by Fox Networks Group Malaysia and produced from the studios in Malaysia. The headquarters closed on November 12, 2021. * Philippines: This variant which was transmitted by Fox Networks Group Philippines and produced from the studios in Philippines. The headquarters closed on October 1, 2021. * Singapore: This variant which was transmitted by Fox Networks Group Singapore and produced from the studios in Singapore. The headquarters closed on November 12, 2021. * Vietnam: This variant which was transmitted by Fox Networks Group Vietnam and produced from the studios in Vietnam. The headquarters closed on October 1, 2021, in

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and November 12, 2021, in

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. * Taiwan: This variant which was transmitted by Fox Networks Group Taiwan and produced from the studios in Taipei. The headquarters closed on January 1, 2024. It also overseed a version of Star Sports broadcast to mainland China and South Korea, and Star Sports 2 (formerly known as ESPN until 31 December 2014) broadcast to mainland China. In South Korea, Fox Sports was partnered with

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until 11 March 2020, which operated JTBC3 Fox Sports (now known as JTBC Golf&Sports). As ESPN Star Sports, it has previously partnered with MBC (MBC ESPN (now known as MBC Sports+)) from 2001 until July 2010, and SBS (SBS ESPN (now known as SBS Sports)) from Late 2010 until 2014.

Final programming

Broadcast rights for various sports properties contain territorial limitations and in a lot of instances, the rights indicated below may not pertain to all Asian territories in which Fox Sports operated.

Australian Rules Football

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(except Philippines)

Boxing

* World Boxing Matches

Cricket

* ICC **

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(all matches available on official website and Fox+, highlights on television) **

Under-19 Cricket World Cup The Under-19 Men's Cricket World Cup is an international cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council contested by national under-19 teams. First contested in 1988, as the Youth Cricket World Cup, it was not staged aga ...

(all matches available on Fox+, highlights and live coverage of final on television) **

Women's Cricket World Cup The Women's Cricket World Cup is the quadrennial international championship of Women's One Day International Cricket tournament. Matches are played as One Day Internationals over 50 overs per team. There is also another championship for Tw ...

(all matches only available on Fox+, highlights on television) *

Anthony de Mello Trophy The Anthony de Mello Trophy is awarded to the winner of the England-India Test cricket series held in India. The trophy was instituted in 1951, when England toured India for a five-match series. The trophy is named after Anthony de Mello, an I ...

* Border–Gavaskar Trophy. *

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

T20 matches

Football

* AFC (only for Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore through 2024) * AFF Suzuki Cup (only for Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia; Indonesian broadcast was later moved to

RCTI RCTI (abbreviated from ''Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia'') is an Indonesian free-to-air television broadcaster. It is best known for its soap operas, celebrity bulletins, news, and sports programmes. It was first launched in 1989, origi ...

iNews iNews, short for ''Indonesia News'', formerly named Sun TV and Sindo TV, is an Indonesian free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the approp ...

, MNC Sports and Soccer Channel) * Danish Super League (one match per week, 2019–2021 (originally from June 2020 with the remaining matches in 2019–20)) **

FC Copenhagen Football Club Copenhagen (, ), commonly known as F.C. København, F.C. Copenhagen, Copenhagen, or simply FCK, is a Danish professional football club based in Copenhagen. FCK was founded in 1992 as a superstructure on top of Kjøbenhavns Boldklu ...

(first week of the month) **

Brøndby IF Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening (, usually abbreviated to Brøndby IF (), is a Danish professional Football club (association football), football club based in Brøndbyvester. Brøndby IF denotes the professional football section of Brøndbyernes ...

(second week of the month) **

FC Midtjylland Football Club Midtjylland (, "Central Jutland") is a Danish professional football club based in Herning and Ikast. The club is the result of a merger between Ikast FS and Herning Fremad. Midtjylland competes in the Danish Superliga, which they ...

(third week of the month) ** Aarhus GF (fourth week of the month) * DBU Pokalen *

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(only for Guam, Mongolia, Northern Marianas and Palau)

Field Hockey

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(except Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore) *

Women's FIH Pro League The Women's FIH Pro League is an international women's field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation (FIH), which replaces the Women's FIH Hockey World League. The competition also serves as a qualifier for the Women ...

(except Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore)

Golf

* The Masters Tournament * U.S. Open Championship *

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PGA Championship The PGA Championship (often referred to as the US PGA Championship or USPGA outside the United States) is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers' Association of America. The PGA is one of the four men's major golf champi ...

ANA Inspiration The Chevron Championship is a professional women's golf tournament. An event on the LPGA Tour, it is one of the tour's five major championships, and has traditionally been the first of the season since its elevation to major status in 1983. Sinc ...

United States Women's Open Championship (golf) The U.S. Women's Open is one of 15 national golf championships conducted by the United States Golf Association (USGA), is the oldest of the LPGA Tour's five major championships, which includes the Chevron Championship, Women's PGA Championship, ...

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Ricoh Women's British Open The Women's Open (originally known as the Women's British Open, and still widely referred to by that name outside the UK) is a major championship in women's professional golf. It is recognised by both the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tou ...

The Evian Championship The Evian Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as The Amundi Evian Championship, is a women's professional golf tournament in France, played at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains. It was originally held in June, mov ...

Kickboxing

* Kunlun Fight

Mixed Martial Arts

Ultimate Fighting Championship The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promoter (entertainment), promotion company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned and operated by TKO Group Holdings, a majority owned subsidiary of Endeavor ( ...

(The rest of the 2021 Championship has been aired on Mola along with some other broadcasters including Indonesia

antv ANTV (abbreviation from Andalas Televisi, stylized antv, alternatively spelled ANteve which was also known as a brand before 2003) is an Indonesian free-to-air television broadcaster based in South Jakarta. It is owned by Visi Media Asia (Viva ...

and tvOne)

Motorsports

Formula One Formula One (F1) is the highest class of worldwide racing for open-wheel single-seater formula Auto racing, racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The FIA Formula One World Championship has been one ...

(The rest of the 2021 until 2022 Championships has been aired on other broadcasters including Indonesia Champions TV/ O Channel/Moji, Malaysia Astro SuperSport and Singapore

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) *

FIA Formula 2 Championship The FIA Formula 2 Championship (F2) is a second-tier single-seater championship organized by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Held on road racing, racing circuits, the championship was introduced in 2017, following the re ...

FIA Formula 3 Championship The FIA Formula 3 Championship (FIA F3) is a third-tier international Open wheel car, single-seater racing championship organised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship launched in 2019 as a feeder series for ...

MotoGP Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the highest class of motorcycle road racing events held on Road racing, road circuits sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). Independent motorcycle racing events have been held sin ...

(The rest of the 2021 Championships has been aired on

along with some other broadcasters including Indonesia

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) *

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Moto3 Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the highest class of motorcycle road racing events held on road circuits sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). Independent motorcycle racing events have been held since the start ...

* MotoE *

IndyCar Series The IndyCar Series, officially known as the NTT IndyCar Series for sponsorship reasons, is the highest class of American open-wheel car racing in the United States, which has been conducted under the auspices of various sanctioning bodies sinc ...

(general broadcast in CANAL+ Vietnam) *

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship The IMSA SportsCar Championship, currently known as the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship under sponsorship, is a sports car racing series based in the United States and Canada and organized by the International Motor Sports Association (I ...

Extreme E Extreme E was an FIA-sanctioned international off-road racing series that used spec silhouette electric SUVs to race in remote parts of the world, such as the Saudi Arabian desert or the Arctic. All racing locations were chosen to raise awaren ...

* FIM Motocross World Championship *

Supercars Championship The Supercars Championship, also known as the Repco Supercars Championship under sponsorship and historically as V8 Supercars, is a touring car racing category in Australia and New Zealand, running as an International Series under Fédération I ...

Australian Superbike Championship The Australian Superbike Championship (ASBK) is a national motorcycle racing championship in Australia, organized by Motorcycling Australia. History The story of the Australian Superbike Championship begins in 1980, at a time in motorcycle spo ...

* Australian Motocross Championship *

World Touring Car Cup The FIA World Touring Car Cup (abbreviated to WTCR, referring to the use of TCR regulations) was an international touring car championship promoted by Eurosport Events and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It ...

(only for highlights) *

FIA World Endurance Championship The FIA World Endurance Championship, abbreviated as WEC, is a world championship for automobile endurance racing organized by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The se ...

(only for highlights) * MotoAmerica (2020–2021)

Rugby

Union

* Global Rapid Rugby

League

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (also known as the NRL Telstra Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby league competition in Oceania which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria (state), Victoria, the Austral ...

(only for Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore)

Tennis

(The broadcast has been aired on other broadcasters) *

(The broadcast has been aired on other broadcasters) * U.S. Open (The broadcast has been aired on other broadcasters) * ATP Cup *

Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was cha ...

(final only) * Laver Cup

News

* '' SportsCenter Asia'' * ''

ESPN FC ESPN FC (formerly ESPN SoccerNet) is a website and a U.S. television studio program covering soccer that is broadcast daily over the streaming service ESPN+. ESPN FC's origin was a website owned by ESPN Inc. Originally established in 1995 as Soc ...

Other

* ''The G.O.A.T.'' (only for the Philippines) * ''Full Throttle'' (only for the Philippines) * ''76 Rider'' (only for Indonesia) * Special Force 2 Pro League * ''Fox Sports Live'' (pre/post match/game/race shows) * ''2 Wheels'' * ''Chequered Flag'' * ''The John Dykes Show'' * ''Sport Confidential'' * ''International Motorsports News'' * ''Gilette World of Sports'' * ''Football Asia''

Personalities

* John Dykes * Colette Wong * Paula Malai Ali * Yvette King * Jason de la Peña *Steve Dawson *Ben Ibrahim * Edward Russell * Alex Yoong * Matteo Guerinoni * Matthew Marsh * Jazeman Jaafar * Marlon Stöckinger

References

External links

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