Fox Sports International Announces Two-Year Extension With Turkish Satellite Operator Digiturk and New Venture With Avrupa Sport Ltd. for Localized Programming.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Fox Sports International Fox Sports International is an international sports programming and production entity housed within the Fox Networks Group, one of the major operating units within Fox Entertainment Group and News Corporation. (FSI FSI Foreign Service Institute FSI Fluid Structure Interaction FSI Fuel Stratified Injection FSI Federazione Scacchistica Italiana (Italian Chess Federation) FSI Free Standing Insert FSI Flight Simulator ) has finalized a two-year renewal of its agreement with leading satellite operator Digiturk for carriage of the Fox Sports television network in Turkey. The agreement ensures that Digiturk's subscriber base of over 1 million households will continue to have access to Fox Sports' exclusive coverage of top international football, auto racing, tennis, basketball and other sports events. In addition to extending its relationship with Digiturk, FSI has teamed up with Avrupa Sport Ltd. (a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Plan B Management) to give its viewers a more interactive and localized programming experience. Avrupa Sport will provide voice-overs in the Turkish language Turkish language, member of the Turkic subdivision of the Altaic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages). Turkish is the official language of Turkey and one of the official languages of Cyprus. for certain programs on the Fox Sports network, allowing viewers to choose between English and Turkish commentary when watching sports events on the channel. FSI and Avrupa Sport will also work together to acquire the broadcast rights for local and national sports events in Turkey. "Adding Turkish-language commentary and local sporting events is an important step in our network's growth in Turkey," said David Sternberg, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Fox Sports International. "The Fox Sports channel Sports channels are television specialty channels (usually available exclusively through cable and satellite) broadcast sporting events, usually live, and when not broadcasting events, sports news and other related programming. will now be even more accessible to Turkish audiences, while still providing coverage of top international football, auto racing, tennis and other sports events, and will become a more attractive vehicle for Turkish advertisers." "This partnership represents an important programming milestone for the Turkish sports fan, by offering viewers key international properties in their native tongue," said Metin Dalman, Managing Director of Plan B Management. "Furthermore, the addition of local programming will help the Fox Sports channel to have a more local feel." Fox Sports Turkey is affiliated with Fox Sports International, an international sports programming and production entity housed within the Fox Cable Networks Group, one of the major operating units within the Fox Entertainment Group (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : FOX) and News Corporation (NYSE: 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) ). Additional information on Fox Sports Turkey can be found at www.foxsportstr.com DIGITURK, which was established in 1999 and began broadcasting in April 2000, provides digital broadcasting Digital broadcasting is the practice of using digital data rather than analogue waveforms to carry broadcasts over television channels or assigned radio frequency bands. It is becoming increasingly popular for television usage (especially satellite television) but is having a services with various program alternatives and numerous channels. As such, DIGITURK is the only name in Turkey in digital platform management. DIGITURK offers a total of 132 television, radio, and interactive channels to its subscribers in different package options, with an extensive diversity of entertainment vehicles including films, sports, news, music, and documentaries, as well as children's programming, games shows, fashion, travel, culture, art, health and history. The company is the first and the only provider of pay-per-view services in Turkey, and its options in this realm include films, sports and adult programs. DIGITURK currently has approximately 1,050,000 subscribers. Fox Sports Turkey is broadcast 24 hours a day on DIGITURK's channel number 70. |
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