New Fox Soccer Report Launches January 8 on Fox Soccer Channel

Re-branded Nightly News Show Will Focus Exclusively on Soccer

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Underscoring its position as America’s premier soccer destination, Fox Soccer Channel today announced that its nightly sports news program, Fox Sports World Report, will become the Fox Soccer Report, effective Monday, January 8. Focusing exclusively on soccer, the new hour-long Fox Soccer Report will air at 10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT, Monday through Sunday.

Show hosts will include Fox Sports World Report veterans Jeremy St. Louis, Carlos Machado and Mitch Peacock, with Max Bretos sharing his views on the global soccer scene during MAXimum Soccer each Thursday. On Friday, soccer pundit Bobby McMahon will continue to impart his unique insights into the coming weekend’s matchups, returning for a recap of the weekend’s best plays on Mondays.

Fox Soccer Report will be co-produced by Fox Soccer Channel and Global Television’s Fox Sports World Canada at Global’s network facilities in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Fox Sports World Report was originally launched by the two companies in 2002.

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, the Barclays English Premier League, Argentine First Division and Italian Serie A; as well as global tournaments such as the UEFA Cup, UEFA Women’s Championship, English FA Cup, FIFA Club World Cup, CONCACAF Champions’ Cup, and FA Community Shield. The Official Broadcast Partner of the United States Youth Soccer Association, Fox Soccer Channel also televises United Soccer Leagues and NCAA Division I college soccer matches in cooperation with the NSCAA. The channel reaches more than 28 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.