Fox Sports 1 Update

[TheDon]

I've seen more FS1 promos and ads recently. I think they might actually have a chance to succeed.

[marquette]

I've seen more FS1 promos and ads recently. I think they might actually have a chance to succeed.

They are advertising across all of their on-air properties, as far as I can tell. That's pretty substantial. I have high hopes that there will be decent awareness once the channel actually launches. I'm also hoping that the placement in the lineup is pretty close to current sports channels (I know here in Milwaukee Fox Sports WI is only 2 channels away from ESPN on Time Warner. That would be an easy swap and people looking for Brewers or Bucks games will probably be willing to look for the other channel.

[Jet915]

I've seen more FS1 promos and ads recently. I think they might actually have a chance to succeed.

They are advertising across all of their on-air properties, as far as I can tell. That's pretty substantial. I have high hopes that there will be decent awareness once the channel actually launches. I'm also hoping that the placement in the lineup is pretty close to current sports channels (I know here in Milwaukee Fox Sports WI is only 2 channels away from ESPN on Time Warner. That would be an easy swap and people looking for Brewers or Bucks games will probably be willing to look for the other channel.

Verizon FiOS where I am at has already made the switch a few months ago, Speed Channel is right under ESPN now...

[bmorex]

I've seen more FS1 promos and ads recently. I think they might actually have a chance to succeed.

They are advertising across all of their on-air properties, as far as I can tell. That's pretty substantial. I have high hopes that there will be decent awareness once the channel actually launches. I'm also hoping that the placement in the lineup is pretty close to current sports channels (I know here in Milwaukee Fox Sports WI is only 2 channels away from ESPN on Time Warner. That would be an easy swap and people looking for Brewers or Bucks games will probably be willing to look for the other channel.

Verizon FiOS where I am at has already made the switch a few months ago, Speed Channel is right under ESPN now...

I have Comcast (Baltimore) and right now Speed is in the 50's or something like that, whereas ESPN and its channels are 5/6. I'm hoping they put FS1 closer to those.

[Jet915]

New Fox Sports 1 commercial with a couple of Big East clips..........someone mentioned that they can't show clips of current players (like Doug McDermott) unless it's for a specific game. BTW, the 90 second commercial will air sometime tomorrow during the MLB all-star game.

http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsports1

[Choox]

Fox's web site looks like something from US magazine. Garbage stories on the main page usually referring to sex, bikinis, etc. It would be nice if they took sports a bit more seriously and looked a little more like ESPN.

[Jet915]

Nevermind, looks like they just released the commercial....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q9aUGrlgzU0

[GreatDaneAttorney]

FS1 charging $0.80/month per subscriber at launch, rising to $1.50/month/sub over the life of carriage contracts, per a report from Sports Business Daily.

http://www.fiercecable.com/story/report ... e=internal

At 90m subscribers, that's $72m/month, and $864m annually in subscriber fees. It's easy to see where the Big East got their TV money when looking at this way, and also makes you wonder if the AAC and MWC didn't get hosed.

[ArmyVet]

Several notes in this article

1- "Fox Soccer Daily" debuts on Fox Sports 1 on Aug. 19 at 4:00 p.m. ET. The live half-hour show -- originating from Los Angeles weekdays -- will feature soccer news, highlights and analysis.

2 - Fox Sports 1 announced the staffing last week for the new Regis Philbin daily sports discussion show -- the exclamation point-happy Crowd Goes W!ld -- and host Philbin will be joined by comedian Michael Kosta, Wall Street Journal sports columnist Jason Gay, former NFL defensive end Trevor Pryce, and the former Sky Sports host and news anchor Georgie Thompson

3- Fox Sports said Bardia Shah-Rais will oversee its studio production for Fox College Thursday and Fox College Saturday as well as well as FS1's Big East basketball studio production and select MLB studio coverage. Shah-Rais spent the last eight seasons at NFL Network where he oversaw production of "Thursday Night Football" and "NFL Total Access." NFL Network officials were furious when Shah-Rais was raided by Murdoch Land. As one NFL Network exec told me last May: "He's phenomenal, and that's an understatement. It's a huge loss for us." But Shah-Rais has heavy lifting ahead of him. Fox's college football coverage has been lightweight editorially compared to ESPN, and some talent moves made this summer have been head-scratching if national credibility remains a long-term goal.

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/n ... z2ZtYZSecW

[JohnT]

I wish Fox had some college writers putting out tweets and stories heading into the basketballs season. ESPN has Katz and all these guys producing good content that they clearly control the topics discussed nationally. Fox needs to get in on the act.