Fox Sports announced today a three-year agreement withMy TV (www.mytvafrica.tv) for carriage of the Fox Sports Africanetwork in Nigeria and Ghana, with an eye towards expansion into otherNorth and Central African territories in the coming months. Fox Sports joins a select group of networks on My TV's satellitesystem, which prides itself on catering to every member of the Africanfamily. The service comprises a mix of movie, sports, music, kids,news and general interest programming.
Fox Sports, as it is currently aired in Nigeria and Ghana,features many international and U.S. domestic sports, including fourregular season Major League Baseball games per week, 22 regular seasonNFL American football games, and two Scottish Premier League soccergames per week. Completing the impressive programming line-up are theNFL playoffs and Super Bowl championship game, college basketball(from the SEC, ACC and PAC-10 conferences), the National HockeyLeague, the American and European PGA tours, ATP Tennis, boxing, autoracing, extreme sports, track and field, and a wide variety of nichesports, plus a nightly sports news show, the Fox Sports World Report.
"We are very pleased to be partnered with My TV in the expandingtelevision markets of Nigeria and Ghana," said David Sternberg,Executive Vice President and General Manager of Fox SportsInternational. "Since our entry into the African market two years ago,it has been exciting to see the demand for first-rate internationalsports programming continue to grow."
About Fox Sports
Fox Sports Africa is affiliated with Fox Sports International, aninternational sports programming and production entity housed withinthe Fox Cable Networks Group, one of the major operating units withinthe Fox Entertainment Group (NYSE:FOX) and News Corporation(NYSE:NWS). Additional information about Fox Sports Africa can beobtained by visiting its Web site at www.foxsportsafrica.com.