Fox Sports International Promotes Raul Palma and Fausto Ceballos to VP of Production and VP of Creatives Services, Respectively.LOS ANGELES -- 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 ) announced today the promotions of Raul Palma Palma or Palma de Mallorca (päl`mä thā mälyôr`kä), city (1990 pop. 325,120), capital of Majorca island and of Baleares prov., Spain, on the Bay of Palma. and Fausto Ceballos to the newly created positions of Vice President of Production and Vice President of Creative Services, respectively. "We owe our success in large part to our ability to attract and retain top-notch people," said David Sternberg, executive vice president and general manager of Fox Sports International. "Raul and Fausto are not only extraordinarily talented in their respective areas, but have also demonstrated the commitment, passion and leadership skills that we value in our management team as we grow the Fox Sports International networks." As the newly appointed Vice President of Production, Palma will oversee all day-to-day program production activities for Fox Sports en Espanol, Fox Sports Latin America and 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. . A veteran sports producer, Palma joined Fox in 1996 as a producer, and most recently served as Director of Production. During his tenure at FSI, Palma has played a key role in the production of some of the networks' signature properties, including Premios Fox Sports, the Barclays English Premier League, Copa Toyota Libertadores, Copa Nissan Sudamericana, 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 InterLiga. Palma will continue to report to Senior Vice President of Programming and Production Dermot McQuarrie. In his new role as Vice President of Creative Services, Ceballos will be responsible for developing and implementing FSI's creative strategies and on-air promotions. He also will provide creative support to the advertising and affiliate sales teams for Fox Sports en Espanol, Fox Sports Latin America and Fox Soccer Channel. Ceballos joined the Fox family in 2002 as FSI's director of creative services, and previously held creative management positions at Pan-American Sports Network, LAPTV LAPTV Linear Almost-Periodically Time Varying (Latin American Paid Television), and Mexico's Grupo Televisa. Ceballos will continue to report to Senior Vice President of Marketing, Communications, and Creative Services Raul de Quesada. About Fox Sports International Fox Sports International (FSI) is an international sports programming and production entity housed within the Fox Networks Group, one of the major operating units within Fox Entertainment Group (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : FOX) and News Corporation (NYSE: NWS). FSI operates the programming services Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Sports Middle East, as well as a London-based programming syndication sales division, and is partnered with Global Television in Fox Sports World Canada Fox Sports World Canada is a Canadian English language category 2 digital cable specialty channel owned by CanWest MediaWorks Inc. FSWC's programming primarily features soccer with select programming on other world sports such as rugby. . In 2002, it joined with Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. to form Fox Pan American Sports LLC, one of the world's largest Spanish-language sports operations and programming ventures, spanning North, Central and South America. Through this joint venture, FSI manages the U.S. Spanish-language sports network Fox Sports en Espanol. |
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