Fox Sports En Español, the country's leading provider of Spanish language sports media, is being re-branded FOX Deportes this fall; it was announced today by Vincent Cordero, the network's Executive Vice President and General Manager.
FOX has set the fall premiere dates for its new and returning series. The 2010-2011 season on FOX will kick off with a special premiere week beginning Monday, Sept. 20. HOUSE and the Princeton Plainsboro team return for a seventh season Monday, Sept. 20 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) followed by the series premiere of the sophisticated and provocative drama LONE STAR (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). This fall, Tuesdays feature a night of pitch-perfect comedy beginning Sept. 21 with the highly anticipated return of GLEE (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) and the series premieres of new family comedy RAISING HOPE (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) and new romantic comedy RUNNING WILDE (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) starring Will Arnett and Keri Russell. On Wednesday, Sept. 22, things heat up for Gordon Ramsay in the two-hour premiere of the eighth season of HELL’S KITCHEN (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). The thrill is on Thursdays when BONES (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) and FRINGE (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) return beginning Sept. 23.
Rick Jaffe, Senior Vice President and Executive Producer for Fox Sports Net's national production group and former Executive Sports Editor of the Los Angeles Times, has been appointed to the newly created position of Senior Vice President and Editor-In-Chief, FOX Sports Interactive Media, effective immediately (FSIM). The announcement was made today by Jeff Husvar, FSIM Executive Vice President and General Manager.
Originals of HELL'S KITCHEN and SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE along with encores of GLEE and Sunday Animation Domination favorites led FOX to rank No.1 among Adults 18-49 last week.
Sportvision, Inc., the leading innovator of digital sports content and broadcast enhancements, today announced that the Company has extended their partnership with the FOX Sports Media Group (FSMG), encompassing all NFL games through the 2013-14 season, all MLB games through the 2013 season and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races through the 2014 season, covering telecasts on FOX Sports, SPEED and Fox Sports Net’s 19 regional sports networks. This renewed partnership with FSMG is Sportvision's most expansive network agreement ever.
Amber Tamblyn has signed on to appear in the upcoming season of HOUSE for a multi-episode story arc. She will play a brilliant and aggressive medical student whom DR. HOUSE (Hugh Laurie) hires as a new team member although she is technically not yet qualified to practice medicine. Tamblyn's character will be confronted with the morally and ethically questionable way that House practices medicine.
Some of Europe's elite club teams descend onto American soil this summer as Fox Soccer Channel televises a series of highly-anticipated international showdowns including Football at Fenway, the Barclays New York Challenge, and matches pitting legendary clubs Real Madrid and Manchester United against Major League Soccer opposition.
Fox has named Ann Calfas to the newly created position of Executive Vice President, Labor Relations and Employment Litigation. In creating this new position, Fox is consolidating two closely related areas that frequently work together and routinely address overlapping issues. The appointment was announced jointly by Greg Gelfan, Executive Vice President of Fox Filmed Entertainment, and Gary Roberts, Executive Vice President of Fox Group Legal. Calfas will report directly to both Gelfan and Roberts.
The death toll has risen to 34 as a result of floods and landslides in two provinces in China, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Monday.
Tests on the ruptured BP well in the Gulf of Mexico will go on for another 24 hours as officials try to explain "anomalous" pressure readings and possible leaks.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the proposed construction of a mosque and community center near "Ground Zero," the site of the 9/11 terror attack in New York City, calling it an "unnecessary provocation."
An appellate court has ruled that jailed media mogul Conrad Black, who is serving a six-and-a-half-year prison term for fraud, can be released on bail.
The attorney who represented Joran van der Sloot during his confession in the case of the killing of a Peruvian woman says that van der Sloot hired her to be his attorney, contradicting a claim he makes in a pending lawsuit.
British Prime Minister David Cameron offers to meet with U.S. senators to discuss the release of a Libyan convicted over the 1988 bombing of a jetliner above Scotland.