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Even though the Argentina-Iceland FIFA World Cup match was a 1-1 Group Stage draw, Fox Sports came out on top as a winner, scoring its most-watched match of the  FIFA World Cup tournament. According to Nielsen Media Research, the match raked in an average of 2,973,000 viewers on the Fox broadcast network. The match-up…

You have to go back to Argentina ’78 for a World Cup played out against a more politically charged backdrop than Russia 2018. The quadrennial tournament, which gets underway Thursday and runs through July 15, has been readied with Russia ever-present on the global news agenda due to wars in Ukraine and Syria, the…

The Winter Olympics should dominate the early part of 2018 for sports fans around the world, but the summer will belong to soccer. Fox Sports has unveiled its coverage plans for next year’s FIFA World Cup, which runs June 14-July 15 in Russia. It will air 350 hours of programming tied to the quadrennial tournament…

1st UPDATE, Wednesday, 04.30 AM- FIFA reps have confirmed that a planned congress and presidential election scheduled for this Friday will still go ahead, as will the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in Russia and Qatar respectively. The rep also made clear that controversial FIFA President Sepp Blatter, who has not been…

With one week to go before Brazil faces Croatia in the opening game of the 2014 soccer World Cup in Sao Paulo, ESPN SVP and executive producer Jed Drake says his team’s preparation has been going “exceptionally well” and that what ends up on air “is going to be tremendous and worthy of the event itself.” That said…

The Worldwide Leader has been building up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in a big way for years — devoting much more airtime and bandwidth to soccer than most Americans are used to. Now it’s almost time for what ESPN hopes will be the big payoff. The cable sports behemoth today revealed its comprehensive coverage plans…

The 2022 soccer World Cup is to be played in Qatar beginning in June that year and FIFA is discussing a proposal to shift the games due to extremely high temperatures — as much as 122° Fahrenheit — that could adversely affect players. Last month, Fox Sports had balked at a potential move. It paid a record $425M for…

Fox Sports Opposes Proposed Move Of 2022 World Cup Dates Fox Sports is reportedly balking at a potential move by World Cup soccer governing body FIFA to switch the dates of the 2022 championships in Qatar. Fox paid a record $425M for U.S. broadcast rights to the 2018-2022 World Cup package and, according to Bloomberg…