A couple of things here... 1. Vince McMahon has to see this and be thanking God (or whatever diety he worships). I don't know how the contract with NBCU works but WWE runs a second brand (Smackdown) which is on MY Network and is treated as the lesser brand. If WWE could get onto FX it could help both. 2. UFC may be ripe for the taking. Spike has been good to them but FX may provide more mainstream legitmacy. 3. Fox and News Corp. has sports properties they could use on FX but at the risk of cannabalizing other Fox networks. Fox Cable owns half of the Big Ten Network, has tv deals with the Big 12 and Pac 10 for football and a Sunday ACC basketball package. They also have US rights to the English Premier League, Italy's Serie A and UEFA Champions League. What impact, if any, they would have on FX is unknown.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob in Jersey" <bob.in.jer...@juno.com> To: "TVorNotTV" <tvornottv@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:45 PM Subject: [TV orNotTV] FX wants the sports, too > > OK, they tried and dumped NASCAR... > baseball only comes to them in the postseason... > rasslin' has a longterm deal at NBCU... > and the other sports have their own namesake networks. > What's that leave? > > http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/307219-FX_s_Landgraf_Sports_Would_Change_Network_s_Game.php > > > -- > BOB > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
