Barclays English Premier League Returns to Fox Soccer Channel for 2006/2007 Season; America's Soccer Network to Offer Soccer Fans Greater Access Than Ever to World's Top League.LOS ANGELES -- EPL 1. EPL - Early PL/I. 2. EPL - Experimental Programming Language. 3. EPL - Eden Programming Language. U Washington. Based on Concurrent Euclid and used with the Eden distributed OS. Influenced Emerald and Distributed Smalltalk. Coverage Kicks off Saturday, August 19 at 10:00 A.M. ET featuring Newcastle United vs. Wigan Athletic The Barclays English Premier League, the world's most prestigious national soccer competition with a combined television audience base of more than 570 million across 195 countries, will once again return to 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. this season. Starting on August 19, 2006 and continuing through the season's conclusion in May 2007, Fox Soccer Channel will televise more than 150 EPL matches, including a premier weekly match-up at 11:00 a.m. ET on Sundays, previously only available through pay-per-view. Select EPL coverage will also be provided in Spanish by sister network Fox Sports en Espanol. The new season will kick off on Fox Soccer Channel with three matches airing on Saturday, August 19 at 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m. (all times Eastern), as well as an 11:00 a.m. match on Sunday, August 20 featuring two-time defending champion Chelsea and Manchester City. "The Barclays Premiership has become synonymous with Fox Soccer Channel in the United States," said David Sternberg, executive vice president and general manager of Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Sports en Espanol. "Both our network and the popularity of soccer in this country have grown tremendously since our first EPL telecast in 1998. We are proud to be the home of the world's most renowned league for American fans that just can't get enough "Just Can't Get Enough" is the third UK single by Depeche Mode originally released on September 7 1981. It was also the band's first single to be released in the United States, on February 18 1982. of world-class soccer." As part of its ongoing coverage, Fox Soccer Channel will feature a broad selection of high-profile match-ups each week, including 17 Monday match-ups and a number of mid-week clashes in addition to its regular weekend time slots.
2006/2007 EPL Programming - Opening Weekend on Fox Soccer Channel(a)
DATE/TIME TEAMS
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AUGUST 19 @ 10 AM ET/7 AM PT Newcastle United vs. Wigan Athletic
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AUGUST 19 @ 12 PM ET/9 AM PT Bolton Wanderers vs. Tottenham Hotspur
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AUGUST 19 @ 3 PM ET/12 PM PT Reading FC vs. Middlesbrough
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AUGUST 20 @ 11 AM ET/8 AM PT Chelsea vs. Manchester City
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(a) Schedule is subject to change.
For a complete telecast schedule of Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Sports en Espanol's 2006/2007 EPL programming, please visit foxsoccer.com and fse.tv, respectively. 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, and FA Community Shield
abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college soccer matches. The channel reaches more than 25 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 NWS National Weather Service NWS Naval Weapons Station NWS New World Symphony NWS Nuclear Weapon State NWS Not Work Safe NWS National Watercolor Society NWS North Warning System NWS Nose Wheel Steering NWS National Waste Strategy (UK) ). 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. |
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