Fox Soccer Channel Renews Broadcasting Rights Agreement with England's Football Association

Broadcast Rights Include Coverage of the FA Cup, Community Shield
and England's Senior and Under-21 National Teams from 2008/09 Through
2011/12
LOS ANGELES--(Business Wire)--
Fox Soccer Channel today announced a four-year renewal of its
broadcasting rights to televise programming from The Football
Association (FA), England's governing body for soccer.

Under the new agreement, which runs from the 2008/09 through
2011/12 seasons, Fox Soccer Channel will continue to bring U.S. soccer
fans live and exclusive match telecasts from the FA Cup, the world's
oldest knockout club competition. FA Cup coverage will conclude with a
first-ever live broadcast on FSC of The FA Cup Final, played each year
in May at Wembley Stadium.

Fox Soccer Channel also retains rights to the FA Community Shield,
an annual match between the reigning FA Cup champions and The Barclays
Premier League title holder that kicks off the English soccer season
every August. In addition, the agreement includes a selection of live
and exclusive home matches involving the English Senior and Under-21
National Teams, encompassing coverage of England's 2010 FIFA World Cup
qualifying contests as well as international home friendly matches.

The broadcast package also grants Fox Soccer Channel new media
rights to its full-game package, plus shared rights to video clips of
all England and FA Cup matches across television, internet/broadband
and mobile media platforms via a content sharing agreement with
Setanta Sports North America.

In addition to live matches, Fox Soccer Channel will have rights
to ancillary FA programming, including preview and review shows,
archive matches and magazine programs. Setanta Sports North America
will also televise select FA programming as part of a rights-sharing
agreement with Fox Soccer Channel.

"We are delighted to extend our partnership with The FA for
another four seasons," said David Sternberg, Executive Vice President
and General Manager of Fox Soccer Channel. "This new agreement will
bring more of England's tradition-rich soccer action to our viewers
than ever before, on three distinct media platforms - television,
Internet and mobile devices."

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 and
the Argentine First Division 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 the United Soccer Leagues, Major Indoor
Soccer League and NCAA Division I college soccer matches. The channel
reaches more than 32 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.

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