Fuel TV is a U.S. cable and satellite specialty channel that launched on July 1, 2003.[1] It focuses on the cultures of extreme sports, skateboarding, snowboarding, wakeboarding, motocross, surfing, BMX and FMX.
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Fox Cable Networks (News Corporation) |
Fuel TV is expected to be relaunched in the United States by August 2013 as Fox Sports 2, an all sports network that will be a counterpart to Fox Sports 1, which will launch at the same time.[2]
History
As of late 2011, became the official cable home of the Ultimate Fighting Championship as part of a broader agreement between Fox and the UFC, featuring pre-match and analysis programming involving the circuit, along with undercard fights for UFC pay-per-view events. It is a unit of Fox Cable Networks and is currently available to 26-million American households. Additionally, Fox Sports Australia operates Fuel TV in Australia and a Portuguese speaking channel also operates in Portugal; some Fuel TV content previously aired on FX channels in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Fuel TV content is available to another 100+ countries around the world.[1]
The network's concept has originated out of several extreme sports programming concepts. One of them an existing programming block on Fox Sports Networks airing in early evenings in the early 2000s on the network's affiliates, which included Blue Torch TV and EX TV, along with brokered arrangements for individual shows which included New Waves Surf Television, 16MM, etc., and ideas from the Dutch based Extreme Sports Channel. Major contributors to the effort were CJ Olivares, Lloyd Bryan Adams and David Sternberg. [3] [4] Another spoke was the network's name itself, from a concept conceived and launched by independent producer Chris Braly [5] as a regional music and extreme sports weekly broadcast which began airing September 8, 2001 on Chattanooga-based WB affiliate WFLI-TV (Channel 53), using Saturday evening paid programming time on that station.[6] News Corporation eventually negotiated a buy-out of the concept and trademark in late 2003. The regional weekly version of Fuel TV aired its final episode on WFLI in September 2003.[7]
The Fuel TV satellite channel features programming from original series, exclusive events, licensed films, and creative interstitials. Extreme sports programming was formerly the bulk of the network, with a diverse combination of sports, music, reality programming, extreme sports news, and other content, including comedy content.[8][9]
However as of the second half of 2012, the programming schedule has been dominated by mixed martial arts and boxing programming, and other programming made of existing reality programming from sister channel Speed. With the 2012–13 Premier League season, extra live and recorded English Premier League matches are carried on Fuel TV, giving Fox Soccer three venues to carry live matches on EPL match days; this began in May 2012 with Fuel carrying one of nine games on the final day of the EPL season as part of Fox's "Survival Sunday" effort to air all that day's Premier League matches across their cable properties. The Fox Sports logo will be above the Fuel TV logo will be going forword to the re-launched in August 2013.
See also
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References
- ^ a b Fuel TV Continues to Rise -- Cable World, June 26, 2006
- ^ "Fuel TV to become Fox Sports 2". SBJ. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
- ^ http://www.newscorp.com/news/bunews_412.html
- ^ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110712005756/en/Stratus-Media-Group-Hires-Senior-Vice-President
- ^ Chris Braly
- ^ 2001 Fuel TV Trademark
- ^ Original Fuel TV promos on WB
- ^ Fuel TV Press Kit
- ^ Pat Parnell to be Host of Fuel TV's original Daily Series -- Surfersvillage Global Surf News, August 1, 2006