Fox Sports (Southeast Asian TV network)

Star Sports was originally launched as Prime Sports on 21 August 1991. Star TV, based in Hong Kong, operated the channel in partnership with TCI in the United States, which owned Prime-branded regional sports channels there. The channel was broadcast across the continent of Asia, reaching from the Far East to the Middle East, as with AsiaSat 1's footprint. Star TV have since regionalised the channel.

ESPN was originally a part of the so-called "Gang of Five", which was a consortium that was set up to compete against Star TV in the region. (The others in the group were CNN International, HBO, TVB [with TVB Superchannel] and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation [with Australia Television International]) The consortium's channels were initially transmitted via Palapa satellite, but were later also added to Apstar satellite.

Logo of ESPN Star Sports

ESPN and Star Sports were competing each other across Asia,[2] but their businesses were making loss. In October 1996, both channels have agreed to combine their operations in the region.[3] The resulting joint venture, later named ESPN Star Sports, was to be headquartered in Singapore (where ESPN's operations in Asia was based in).[4]

On 16 January 1998, a version of Fox Sports was launched in the Middle East, as carried by Star Select.[5] This apparently replaced Star Sports in the region.

On 6 June 2012, it was announced that News Corporation would buy ESPN International's share in ESPN Star Sports.[6][7] Later, Star India took over ESPN Star Sports' businesses in India,[8] and relaunched all of its sports channels under the Star Sports brand on 6 November 2013.[9][10]

In October 2012, Fox Football Channel was launched in Malaysia.[11] The channel ceased transmission in 2015.

On 28 January 2013, ESPN and ESPN HD was relaunched as Fox Sports and Fox Sports Plus HD in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.[12][13] The regional version of ESPNews was relaunched as Fox Sports News, and SportsCenter Asia was relaunched as Fox Sports Central.

On 15 August 2014, Star Sports was rebranded as Fox Sports 2, and Fox Sports Plus HD was renamed Fox Sports 3 (or Fox Sports HD in Vietnam). The corresponding HD and SD versions of all three channels were also launched.[14][15]

The relaunch of ESPN Star Sports as Fox Sports did not affect much of East Asia, as a version of Star Sports broadcast to Mainland China and South Korea kept the brand, and instead, the version of ESPN for Mainland China was renamed as Star Sports 2 on 1 January 2014.

ESPN International has since refocused on its digital business building out online properties for football (ESPNFC), cricket (CricInfo), Formula 1 (ESPNF1), and Australian rugby union (ESPNscrum),[16] and established partnership with Multi Screen Media in India (Sony ESPN TV channel until 31 March 2020), TV5 Network in the Philippines (ESPN5 programming division), Tencent in Mainland China (a dedicated ESPN section at qq.com), and Mediacorp in Singapore (local ad sales only for the ESPN website through its Partner Network division).

On 31 March, 2020, the website of Fox Sports Asia merged into and redirected to global version of ESPN website.[17]

• Fox Sports News (formerly ESPNews): The channel was first launched as ESPNews in November 2009 in Singapore on Singtel's Mio TV,[18] and later expanded to other areas, including Hong Kong, where it was launched in August 2011 on PCCW's Now TV.[19] The channel was renamed as Fox Sports News on 28 January 2013. The channel was gradually discontinued in 2017: It ceased broadcasting on 1 April 2017 in most areas, but continued until 24 April in Hong Kong, 3 May in Malaysia, and 31 May in Taiwan.
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  Logo of Fox Football Channel
  Fox Football Channel: The channel was launched in October 2012 in Malaysia.[11] Its programming was mainly consisted of association football matches and shows. It ceased broadcasting in 2015.

The individual regional variations of Fox Sports channels include:

• Hong Kong: Additionally, a schedule variant is offered to Hong Kong Cable Television customers due to broadcasting rights issues.
• Indonesia
• Malaysia and Brunei: This variant does not provide coverage of field hockey events.
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Vietnam
• Taiwan: This variant which is transmitted by Fox Networks Group Taiwan and produces from the studios in Taipei.

It also overseed a version of Star Sports broadcast to Mainland China and South Korea, and Star Sports 2 (formerly known as ESPN until 31 December 2014) broadcast to Mainland China.

In South Korea, Fox Sports was partnered with JTBC until 11 March 2020, which operates JTBC3 Fox Sports. As ESPN Star Sports, it has previously partnered with MBC (MBC ESPN) from 2001 until July 2010, and SBS (SBS ESPN) from December 2010 until 2013.

• Notre Dame Football
• XFL

• Major League Baseball:
  • Select spring training and regular season games (home games only and select road games)
  • ESPN Major League Baseball (Sunday Night Baseball and select special games, tie-breaker and Home Run Derby)
  • MLB All-Star Game (MLB International feed)
  • Postseason (wild card, Division Series and Championship Series)
  • World Series (MLB International feed)
• World Baseball Classic
• Nippon Professional Baseball (selected games of Pacific League) (only for Taiwan)
• Korean Baseball Organization (ESPN feed)[20]

• US NCAA Men's College Basketball (Fox College Hoops, except Philippines since 2019)
• BIG3
• High School Basketball League (only for Taiwan)
• Junior High School Basketball League (only for Taiwan)
• University Basketball Association (only for Taiwan)

• Versus
• World Boxing Matches

• Professional Bull Riders events

• ICC
  • Cricket World Cup (all matches available on official website and Fox+, highlights on television)[21]
  • Under-19 Cricket World Cup (all matches available on Fox+, highlights and live coverage of final on television)
  • Women's Cricket World Cup (all matches only available on Fox+, highlights on television)

• AFC Cup (from group stage, for West Zone group stage until semi-finals only available on Fox+)
• AFC Champions League (from play-offs, for West Zone play-offs until quarter finals only available on Fox+)
• AFC Asian Cup
• AFC Women's Asian Cup
• Asian Qualifiers Road to FIFA World Cup (from third round)
• AFC U-23 Championship
• AFC U-19 Championship
• AFC U-16 Championship
• AFC Futsal Championship
• AFC Futsal Club Championship (all matches only available on Fox+)
• AFC U-20 Futsal Championship (all matches only available on Fox+)
• AFF Suzuki Cup (only for Brunei and Malaysia in 2018)

• National Women's Soccer League
• Bundesliga (through 2019–20 season, not available for iCable customers in Hong Kong)
• Serie A (only for Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore through 2020–21 season)
• Danish Super League (remaining matches in 2019–20)
• DBU Pokalen (three matches (both semi finals and a final) in 2019–20)

• The Masters Tournament
• U.S. Open Championship
• The Open Championship
• PGA Championship
• PGA EuroPro Tour
• ANA Inspiration
• United States Women's Open Championship (golf)
• Women's PGA Championship
• Ricoh Women's British Open
• The Evian Championship
• Ladies European Tour (Highlights only)
• LPGA Tour
• Ryder Cup (only for Taiwan)

• Kunlun Fight

• Ultimate Fighting Championship[22]

• Formula One
• FIA Formula 2 Championship
• FIM Motocross World Championship
• Superbike World Championship
• World Touring Car Cup (only for highlights)
• MotoGP
• WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
• FIA World Endurance Championship (only for highlights)
• IndyCar Series
• Formula E
• Supercars Championship

• Global Rapid Rugby

• National Rugby League (only for Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore)

• Australian Open
• French Open
• Wimbledon
• US Open
• Fed Cup (final only)
• ATP Cup
• Laver Cup
• Hawaii Open

• SportsCenter (Fox Sports Central for Taiwan)
• ESPN FC

• The G.O.A.T. (only for the Philippines)
• Full Throttle (only for the Philippines)
• Special Force 2 Pro League
• Fox Sports Live (pre/post match/game/race shows)
• 2 Wheels
• Chequered Flag
• The John Dykes Show
• Sport Confidential
• International Motorsports News
• Gilette World of Sports
• Football Asia