Fox Soccer Channel Scores on the Biggest Sports Sunday of the Year with Liverpool vs Chelsea Match Telecast

Fox Soccer Channel scored its highest-rated telecast from England’s Barclay’s Premier League on the biggest sports viewing day of the year this past Sunday, Feb. 1, during the Liverpool vs. Chelsea match, making FSC the second most watched cable sports channel in the coveted male demographic during the time slot.

During the 11 a.m. ET telecast of Liverpool’s 2-0 victory, Fox Soccer Channel averaged a 0.46 household coverage rating, drawing in a record-breaking 0.72 rating against men 25-54, 0.68 against men 18-49 and a 0.41 against men 18-34. The match bested top sports cable providers including the NFL Network, Spike TV, ESPN News and ESPN 2 in the same time slot. All told, the match attracted 230,000 total viewers nationwide.

Since Fox Soccer Channel became a Nielsen rated network on Oct. 1, 2008, it has earned strong ratings for numerous Premiership matches, including a 0.43 household rating for Manchester United vs. Chelsea on Jan. 11, 2009 and a 0.39 household rating for Manchester United vs. Sunderland on Dec. 6, 2008.

Key sponsors of Fox Soccer Channel’s Premier League coverage include Budweiser, DirecTV, Volkswagen, Verizon, 20th Century Fox and the United States Marines.

About Fox Soccer Channel

Fox Soccer Channel offers the most comprehensive coverage of world-class soccer available in the United States, including Major League Soccer, England’s Barclays Premier League, Italy’s Serie A, the Argentine First Division and Australian Hyundai A-League, as well as such global tournaments as the UEFA Cup, English FA Cup, FIFA Club World Cup, CONCACAF Champions League™, 2010 FIFA World Cup™ qualifiers and the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup™. The Official Broadcast Partner of the United States Youth Soccer Association, Fox Soccer Channel also televises the United Soccer Leagues, NCAA Division I college men’s and women’s soccer and – beginning in April 2009 – the newly-formed Women’s Professional Soccer. The Nielsen-rated channel reaches more than 34 million cable and satellite households in the U.S. and Caribbean.

Fox Soccer Channel is one of 28 national and regional programming networks within Fox Networks Group, an operating unit of the News Corporation (NYSE:NWS). These broadcast, cable, satellite and telephony delivered networks reach more than half a billion U.S. television homes, and represent one of the media industry’s most diverse collections of programming operations. Fox Networks Group consists of FOX Sports, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Cable Networks and Fox Networks Engineering & Operations. For more information, visit America’s most visited online soccer destination at foxsoccer.com.

Contacts

mPRm Public Relations
Chelsea Hettrick, 323-933-3399 ext.4261
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Fox Soccer Channel
Ben Alkaly, 310-444-8642
ben.alkaly {at} fox(.)com