Showing 31 - 43 of 43 articles tagged "soccer"

• Posted Wednesday 7/11/18 at 9:21PM EDT

  Fox Sports is expected to lose money for this year's World Cup

  Viewership was down by one-third from 2014, as this year's ratings were essentially decided when the U.

• Posted Tuesday 7/10/18 at 5:52PM EDT

  Fox Sports sent one of its Los Angeles-based World Cup announcing teams to Russia

  Fox took some heat for only sending two of its top broadcasting teams to announce the games from Russia, while...

• Posted Saturday 7/07/18 at 10:36AM EDT

  Fox and Telemundo are making the best of a World Cup that has seen ratings decline without the U.S. men's team

  This year's World Cup especially hurts U.

• Posted Tuesday 6/26/18 at 4:47PM EDT

  Argentina soccer legend Diego Maradona provides Fox with its second and third middle fingers of the World Cup

  Maradona's double middle-finger salute in celebration of Argentina's victory was caught by the global TV feed and broadcast on Fox...

• Posted Monday 6/25/18 at 6:54PM EDT

  FS1 accused of showing pro-Joseph Stalin propaganda as part of its World Cup coverage

  A National Geographic-produced FS1 segment this morning seemed to humanize the brutal Russian dictator with a tour of his vacation...

• Posted Friday 6/15/18 at 12:35PM EDT

  ESPN resorts to crude drawings to sidestep Fox's World Cup highlights exclusivity

  "With limited/no World Cup video for our show, we will improvise," tweeted SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt.

• Posted Thursday 6/14/18 at 1:46PM EDT

  19 Fox affiliates chose not to show the live World Cup opening ceremony

  Those affiliates opted instead to show Wendy Williams, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Rachel Ray, Judge Mathis and other...

• Posted Tuesday 5/22/18 at 6:12AM EDT

  Fox Sports defends its decision to have eight of 12 World Cup commentators call the games from TV sets in Los Angeles

  While four Fox Sports commentators head to Russia, eight will stay behind in Los Angeles and call the World Cup...

• Posted Thursday 5/17/18 at 9:56AM EDT

  Amazon greenlights a Diego Maradona soccer docuseries

  The legendary and controversial Argentine soccer star will look back at the rise of the man who is considered the...

• Posted Wednesday 5/09/18 at 5:28PM EDT

  Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has two scripted TV projects in the works, including an animated superhero series

  "In my free time, one of the things I like to do is to watch good television," the Real Madrid...

• Posted Wednesday 4/25/18 at 10:49PM EDT

  Most of Fox Sports' World Cup commentators will call the games from Los Angeles, rather than Russia

  Only four of Fox Sports' 12 commentators will make the trip to Russia.

• Posted Wednesday 4/18/18 at 6:54AM EDT

  Downton Abbey creator to tell the story of soccer in a Netflix drama series

  Julian Fellowes will tell the story of the world's most popular sport in a six-part series.

• Posted Thursday 11/09/17 at 2:25PM EST

  Amazon to go behind the scenes of Manchester City for a soccer docuseries

  The upcoming series will follow the current 2017-18 season.