LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Fox Sports
en Espanol's exclusive coverage of the UEFA Champions League will begin at 2:30
pm ET on Tuesday, August 18, as FC Timisoara (ROU) takes on VfB Stuttgart (GER)
in the first leg of the playoff round.
The network will televise 110 live and prime-time UEFA Champions League
and Super Cup matches for the next three seasons to 14 million cable and
satellite households in the U.S., providing an unprecedented level of
tournament coverage in the Hispanic market.
In a deal first
announced last April, Fox Sports en Espanol acquired the U.S. Spanish-language
media rights to the UEFA Champions League, Europe's most prestigious annual
club competition, and the yearly UEFA Super Cup match for the 2009/10, 2010/11
and 2011/12 seasons. Fox Sports en
Espanol will also have the rights to broadcast ancillary UEFA Champions League
programming, including preview and review shows, archived matches and magazine
programs. FSE's website,
www.foxsportsla.msn.com, will feature UEFA Champions League video
highlights, as will the Fox Sports Movil offering for video-enabled wireless
devices.
"We are thrilled
to bring the UEFA Champions League to the first and biggest Spanish-language
sports network in the United States," said David Sternberg, Executive Vice
President and General Manager of Fox Sports en Espanol. "This prestigious
tournament will strengthen our programming lineup tremendously and deliver
outstanding year-round action on multiple platforms to Latino soccer fans
around the country."
Fox Sports en Espanol's
Champions League coverage will include one live and one premiere match telecast
per match day - including prime-time transmissions of live offerings from
sister networks Fox Soccer Channel and FSN - as well as live pregame and
postgame shows from its Los Angeles studios. All live matches will kick off at
2:45 p.m. ET on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the course of the season. Fox Sports en Espanol will also televise a
30-minute Champions League highlight show each Friday.
The UEFA Champions
League - first staged in 1955 - features the reigning champion and other
top-of-table finishers from each of Europe's domestic competitions,
historically including elite clubs such as Chelsea, Liverpool, FC Barcelona, AC
Milan and Bayern Munich. FC Barcelona
is the current defending champion, while Real Madrid has won a record nine
titles. The 2008 Champions League final
was watched by an estimated 130 million people worldwide.
August Matches
Live /
# Day
Date Time (ET) Match Delayed
1) Tue 8/18/2009
2:30:00 PM Timisoara (ROU) v Stuttgart (GER) L
2) Tue 8/18/2009
5:00:00 PM Sporting Clube (POR) v Fiorentina (ITA) D
3) Tue 8/18/2009
7:00:00 PM Celtic (SCO) v Arsenal (ENG) D
4) Wed 8/19/2009
10:30:00AM FC Kobenhavn (DEN) v APOEL (CYP) D
5) Wed 8/19/2009
12:30:00PM FC Sheriff (MDA) v Olympiacos (GRE) D
6) Wed 8/19/2009
2:30:00 PM Panathinaikos (GRE) v Atl. Madrid (ESP) L
7) Wed 8/19/2009
5:00:00 PM Olympique Lyonnais (FRA)
v Anderlecht (BEL) D
8) Wed 8/19/2009
12:30:00AM Salzburg (AUT) v Maccabi Haifa (ISR) D
9) Thu 8/20/2009
11:00:00AM Ventspils (LVA) v Zurich (SUI) D
10)Thu 8/20/2009
1:00:00 PM Levski Sofia (BUL) v Debreceni VSC (HUN)D
11)Tue 8/25/2009
2:30:00 PM Atl. Madrid (ESP) v Panathinaikos (GRE) L
12)Tue 8/25/2009
5:00:00 PM Anderlecht (BEL) v
Olympique Lyonnais (FRA) D
13)Tue 8/25/2009
1:00:00 AM Debreceni (HUN) v Levski Sofia (BUL) D
14)Wed 8/26/2009
10:30:00AM Zurich (SUI) v Ventspils (LVA) D
15)Wed 8/26/2009
12:30:00PM Maccabi Haifa (ISR) v Salzburg (AUT) D
16)Wed 8/26/2009
2:30:00 PM Fiorentina (ITA) v Sporting Clube (POR) L
17)Wed 8/26/2009
5:00:00 PM Arsenal (ENG) v Celtic (SCO) D
18)Wed 8/26/2009
7:00:00 PM Stuttgart (GER) v Timisoara (ROU) D
19)Thu 8/27/2009
2:00:00 PM APOEL (CYP) v Kobenhavn (DEN) D
20)Thu 8/27/2009
4:00:00 PM Olympiacos (GRE) v Sheriff (MDA) D
2009/10 UEFA Champions
League Match Schedule and Draw Dates:
August 18 & 19,
2009 Playoff Round -
First Leg
August 25 & 26,
2009 Playoff Round -
Second Leg
August 27, 2009 Draw for Group Stage
September 15, 16, 29
& 30, 2009 Group Stages
October 20 & 21,
2009 Group Stages
November 3, 4, 24 &
25, 2009 Group Stages
December 8 & 9,
2009 Group Stages
December 18, 2009 Draw for Elimination Stage
February 16, 17, 23
& 24, 2010 Round of 16 - First
Leg
March 9, 10, 16 &
17, 2010 Round of 16 - Second
Leg
March 19, 2010 Draw for Quarters, Semis
and Final
March 30 & 31,
2010 Quarterfinals -
First Leg
April 6 & 7,
2010 Quarterfinals -
Second Leg
April 20 & 21,
2010 Semifinals - First
Leg
April 27 & 28,
2010 Semifinals - Second
Leg
Saturday, May 22,
2010 Final - Santiago
Bernabeu Stadium,
Madrid, Spain
About Fox Sports en
Espanol
Reaching more than 14
million cable and satellite households in the country, of which over 5 million
are U.S. Hispanic Households, Fox Sports en Espanol is the leader in
Spanish-language sports media. We feature premier soccer programming with
exclusive coverage of the top leagues and tournaments in Latin America and
Europe; coverage of the Major League Baseball regular season, All-Star Game,
American League Championship Series and World Series; championship boxing and
UFC(r) and mixed-martial arts across four compelling media platforms. With more
than 1,600 hours of live and exclusive programming, a robust web site brimming
with streaming video, portable content from FSE Movil and the Fox Sports en
Espanol Magazine, we are and will continue to be the first name in the U.S.
Hispanic sports space.
Fox Sports en Espanol
is distributed by Fox Cable Networks Group and operated by Fox Pan American
Sports LLC, an international sports programming and production entity jointly
owned by HM Capital Partners, LLC and News Corporation's (NYSE: NWS) Fox Sports
International. For more information, visit Fox Sports en Espanol online at
foxsportsla.msn.com.
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