"MLS Saturday on FSC" To Premiere with Three-Hour Live Match Coverage on April 7.LOS ANGELES -- The much anticipated "MLS See multilevel security. Saturday on FSC FSC See: Foreign Sales Corporation ," Major League Soccer's (MLS) first ever three-hour on-site programming block, kicks off this Saturday, April 7, with a live match at The Home Depot Center in Carson, California between Chivas USA and Toronto FC, MLS' newest team. The action starts on Fox Soccer Channel Fox Soccer Channel is a United States digital cable network, owned by News Corporation, that specializes in soccer. The channel took its current name on February 7, 2005; before then, the network was known as Fox Sports World, Launched Nov. 1, 1997. with a live pre-game show from the stadium at 10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT. As part of Fox Soccer Channel's exclusive national coverage that will include approximately 28 regular season games and three playoff matches yearly through 2010, Fox Soccer Channel will be on-site at MLS venues each week to produce a live 30-minute pre-game, 15-minute halftime, and a 30-minute post-game show. The shows will include player and coach interviews, highlights of other league matches, statistical updates and expert analysis. Fans interested in getting in on the action will have the opportunity to share their views during the post-game show by calling 1-866-FOX-FANS or emailing mlssaturday@foxsoccer.com. Making his Fox Soccer Channel debut, Todd Grisham, a former college soccer player and the host of WWE's Monday Night Raw, will host "MLS Saturday on FSC," alongside play-by-play commentator Max Bretos and color analyst Christopher Sullivan, a former MLS and U.S. men's national team player. They will be joined on the sidelines On the sidelines An investor who decides not to invest due to market uncertainty. on the sidelines Of or relating to investors who, having assessed the market, have decided to avoid committing their funds. by Fox Soccer Channel reporters Christian Miles, Mark Rogondino and Jeremy St. Louis Jeremy St. Louis is an anchor for Fox Soccer Report on Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Sports World Canada. Born in Winnipeg, Canada on October 22, 1971, Jeremy graduated from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology's Broadcast Journalism program in Calgary in the spring of . Marking another first for U.S. soccer, "MLS Saturday on FSC" telecasts will showcase TrackVision sports broadcast enhancement system from Orad. By harnessing the powers of TrackVision's play analysis and revolutionary virtual tracking capabilities, soccer fans in the U.S. will for the first time ever be able to gauge ball velocity and see dynamic virtual offside lines on their screen for controversial plays. In addition, Fox Soccer Channel's coverage will spotlight the 10-yard circle between the ball and the defensive wall during free kicks, as well as measure the distance of the ball from the goal. In total, "MLS Saturday on FSC" will be shot using a combination of 13 cameras for on-site coverage. On the Internet, Fox Soccer Channel has partnered with MLS to offer "MLS Fantasy Challenge," the season's official MLS fantasy game; weekly winners will be featured on-air and on the www.foxsoccer.com Web site. FoxSoccer.com, the leading online soccer destination in the United States, will also showcase a dedicated "MLS Saturday on FSC" homepage offering updated news and opinion columns, highlights, scores, standings, photo galleries and TV listings. In addition, FoxSoccer.com will offer a variety of MLS game ticket packages for sale in partnership with each of the home teams featured in the telecasts. In its coverage, Fox Soccer Channel will be introducing "Get in the Game," the official "MLS Saturday on FSC" theme song created and recorded by The Rising Sound. The song and accompanying music video will be featured during opening credits, on jumbotrons at stadiums, on the Web and in promotional spots airing across a variety of Fox Cable networks. Advertiser interest in Fox Soccer Channel's MLS broadcasts has been strong thus far, led by first-time Fox Soccer Channel advertiser Dick's Sporting Goods Dick's Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) is the largest full-line sporting goods retailer in the world. It is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and has locations in thirty-four states with 314 stores. , the presenting sponsor for the live half-time show. Other major "MLS Saturday on FSC" sponsors include Honda, Panasonic, adidas, and Makita Tools. Fox Soccer Channel's coverage of MLS will extend beyond "MLS Saturday on FSC." Each week, the network's nightly news program "Fox Soccer Report" will feature an MLS weekend preview hosted by soccer pundit Bobby McMahon and a Saturday and Sunday night recap of MLS weekend action. On Wednesdays, "MLS Pulse" will review the week's news, highlights and opinions from around the league. A complete schedule of Fox Soccer Channel's coverage of the 2007 MLS season is available online at foxsoccer.com. About Fox Soccer Channel Fox Soccer Channel offers the most comprehensive coverage of world-class soccer available in the United States, including Major League Soccer, the Barclays English Premier League, Argentine First Division and Italian Serie A; as well as global tournaments such as the UEFA UEFA Union of European Football Associations UEFA n abbr (= Union of European Football Associations) → U.E.F.A. Cup, UEFA Women's Championship The UEFA Women's Championship, held every fourth year, is the main competition in women's football (soccer) between national teams of the UEFA Confederation. The competition is the women's equivalent of the UEFA European Championship, and is sometimes called the Women's Euro , English FA Cup, FIFA FIFA International Association Football Federation [French Fédération Internationale de Football Association] FIFA n abbr (= Fédération Internationale de Football Association) → FIFA f Club World Cup, CONCACAF CONCACAF Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Soccer) CONCACAF Confederacion Norte, Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol Asociacion (Spanish) Champions' Cup, 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup and FA Community Shield
abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college soccer matches. The channel reaches more than 29 million cable and satellite households in the U.S. and Caribbean. Fox Soccer Channel is one of 28 national and regional programming networks within Fox Networks Group, an operating unit of the News Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NWS). These broadcast, cable, satellite and telephony delivered networks reach more than half a billion U.S. television homes, and represent one of the media industry's most diverse collections of programming operations. Fox Networks Group consists of FOX Sports, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Cable Networks and Fox Networks Engineering & Operations. For more information, visit America's most visited online soccer destination at foxsoccer.com. About Orad Hi Tec Founded in 1993, Orad is a world leader in TV production technology and is rapidly increasing its position in the Virtual Reality industry. Orad's lines of products include virtual sets, on-air graphics systems, virtual advertising, sports production solutions and hardware for the Virtual Reality industry. Orad is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. in the Prime Standard on Frankfurt's Wertpapierborse Prime Standard and Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. (symbol: OHT). For more information on ORAD, please visit www.orad.tv. |
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