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Country | United States |
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Broadcast area | National |
Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Spanish |
Picture format | 720p (HDTV) Downgraded to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed |
Ownership | |
Owner | Fox Sports Media Group (Fox Corporation) |
Sister channels | Fox Sports 1 Fox Sports 2 Fox Soccer Plus Big Ten Network |
History | |
Launched | 1996 |
Former names | Fox Sports Americas (1996-1997) Fox Sports World en Español (1997-2002) Fox Sports en Español (2002-2010) |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Cable | |
AT&T U-verse | Channel 655 (SD) Channel 1655 (HD) |
Verizon FiOS | Channel 311/1521 (SD) Channel 1534 (HD) |
Available on most cable systems | Channel slots vary on each operator |
Satellite | |
DirecTV | Channel 465 (HD) |
Dish Network | Channel 855 (HD) |
Streaming media | |
AT&T TV Now | Internet Protocol television |
Fubo TV | Live Stream |
Hulu (Fox Sports app) | Internet Protocol television |
Fox Deportes (formerly Fox Sports en Español and stylized in all caps as FOX Deportes) is an American pay television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming in Spanish, aimed at the Hispanic population in the United States. Launched in 1996, Fox Deportes, a division of Fox Sports, 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 as Fox Sports Americas in 1996, before transitioning to Fox Sports World en Español in 1997. In 2002, the network was relaunched as Fox Sports en Español before becoming Fox Deportes in 2010.[1]
As of February 2015, approximately 21,831,000 American households (18.8% of households with television) received Fox Deportes.[2]
The network holds rights to international football including, the MLS. During the 2018 FIFA World Cup, it carries replays of Fox's English-language coverage of the tournament.
The network began to carry simulcasts of some Fox College Football 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 Super Bowl XLVIII, a first for a Spanish-language sports network in the United States, and will carry future Super Bowls in years the Fox broadcast network holds the rights to the game.[3]
The network also serves as the Spanish-language home to Major League Baseball, 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 audio description 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.
On October 9, 2010 Fox Deportes picked up Spanish language rights to Formula One coverage, a contract which ran through 2012.[4] In August 2012, NASCAR and Fox Deportes made a deal to have Fox Deportes Broadcast 15 races, 6 of them live, one of which is the Daytona 500.
As of October 2019, Fox Deportes holds the Spanish language rights to WWE's Friday Night SmackDown, which is aired in a live simulcast with Fox.
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