PRESS RELEASE: FOX Sports Racing available on Cogeco Cable Canada
FOX Sports and Cogeco Cable Canada, the second largest cable operator in Ontario and Quebec, announced on Thursday the launch of FOX Sports Racing to the distributor’s channel lineup.
“We continue to invest in and strengthen FOX Sports Racing in Canada, an effort not possible without our valued distribution partners,” said David Nathanson, Head of Business Operations for FOX Sports. “The Cogeco launch continues a string of summer successes and ongoing momentum for the network.”
FOX Sports Racing now is accessible on preview status to all of Cogeco’s English language subscribers for one month, before moving to its position on Cogeco’s Sports Life tier.
“FOX Sports continues to show a strong commitment to the Canadian motor sports community, and we’re happy to make FOX Sports Racing available to our customers,” said Anne Isabelle Roussy, VP Marketing and Product Development for Cogeco Cable Canada.
FOX Sports Racing continues to build upon an already robust lineup of motor sports, with the recent addition of the Rockstar Energy Drink Motocross Nationals presented by Motovan and last month’s announcement that the NHRA, the world’s premier drag racing series, is coming to FOX Sports in 2016. FOX Sports also recently announced a multi-year renewal with the fully electric FIA Formula E Championship.
With a 2015 schedule that includes nearly 800 events and more than 900 hours of competition-driven programming, the FOX Sports Racing lineup is highlighted by a full season of live NASCAR Camping World Truck Series racing; practice and qualifying sessions from NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR XFINITY Series events; the MotoGP World Championship and its support series, Moto2 and Moto3; Monster Energy Supercross; TUDOR United Sportscar Championship; the World Endurance Championship, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans; ARCA Racing Series; and the of the FIA Formula E Championship.
FOX Sports Racing is also home to Street League Skateboarding, Burton Snowboarding, The Jockey Club and the Masters Agility Championship at Westminster.
For a look at the complete FOX Sports Racing programming lineup, please visit: www.FOXSportsRacing.com.
About FOX Sports
FOX Sports is the umbrella entity representing 21st Century FOX’s wide array of multi-platform US-based sports assets. Built with brands capable of reaching more than 100 million viewers in a single weekend, FOX Sports includes ownership and interests in linear television networks, digital and mobile programming, broadband platforms, multiple web sites, joint-venture businesses and several licensing partnerships. FOX Sports includes the sports television arm of the FOX Broadcasting Company; FOX Sports 1; FOX Sports 2; Fox’s 22 regional sports networks, their affiliated regional web sites and FSN national programming; FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2Go; FOX Deportes and FOX College Sports. In addition, FOX Sports also encompasses FOX Sports Digital, which includes FOXSports.com, FOX Sports GO, Whatifsports.com and Yardbarker.com. Also included in the Group are FOX’s interests in joint-venture businesses Big Ten Network and BTN 2Go, as well as licensing agreements that establish the FOX Sports Radio Network.
About Cogeco Cable Canada
Cogeco Cable Canada (www.cogeco.ca) regroups the Canadian cable operations of Cogeco Cable Inc. Cogeco Cable Canada is the second largest cable operator in Ontario and Québec in terms of the number of Basic Cable service customers served. Its two-way broadband cable networks provide to its residential and small business customers Analog and Digital Television, High Speed Internet (“HSI”) and Telephony services. Cogeco Cable Inc. is a telecommunications corporation and is the 11th largest hybrid fibre coaxial cable operator in North America operating in Canada under the Cogeco Cable Canada brand name in Québec and Ontario, and in the United States through its subsidiary Atlantic Broadband in Western Pennsylvania, South Florida, Maryland/Delaware and South Carolina. Through its combined subsidiaries, Cogeco Data Services and Peer 1 Hosting, Cogeco Cable Inc. provides to its business customers a suite of information technology services (data transport, colocation, cloud and managed services, and dedicated hosting), with 20 data centres as well as more than 50 points-of-presence in North America and Europe. Cogeco Cable Inc.’s subordinate voting shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: CCA).
