Elijah's View

Why Fox responded to soccer's rising popularity by killing Fox Soccer Channel

In another era, this would be a simple story about soccer once again failing to catch on in America, with all the attendant skepticism about the sport as a whole.

But it was interest in soccer and competition for it that killed Fox Soccer Channel, not a lack of it.

For years, Fox Soccer Channel contained much of what an American soccer fan could possibly care about. Generally, to watch the English Premier League, you'd tune to Fox Soccer, with the exception of the occasional match on ESPN. That future changed last October, when N.B.C. won the American rights to broadcast the league, beginning in 2013-14, outbidding Fox and ESPN at a rate of $250 million.
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