Fox Footy
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| Fox Footy | |
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| Launched | 17 February 2012 |
| Owned by | Premier Media Group |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Sister channel(s) | Fox Sports SPEED Fox Sports News FUEL TV |
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| Satellite | |
| Foxtel | Channel 504 (SD/HD) Channel 206 (SD) |
| Austar | Channel 504 (SD) Channel 206 (HD) |
| Cable | |
| Foxtel | Channel 504 (SD/HD) Channel 206 (SD) |
| Optus TV | Channel 504 |
| IPTV | |
| Xbox 360 | Channel 504 |
Fox Footy is an Australian Rules football subscription television channel dedicated to screening Australian rules football matches and related programming. It is owned by Premier Media Group, operated out of their Melbourne based studios and available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television. The channel is a revival of the former Fox Footy Channel, which was in operation between 2002-2006. The channel recommenced prior to the 2012 AFL season after a new broadcast agreement was reached between Premier Media Group, Austar, Foxtel and the AFL[1].
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[edit] History
It was announced on 28 April 2011 that the channel would be revived for the 2012 AFL season. The channel returned exclusively on Foxtel and its broadcasting partners, under the proposed new name of Fox Sports AFL[2], which was later changed back to its original name Fox Footy. The channel relaunched at 5:00pm AEDT on Friday 17 February 2012 with the first NAB Cup round-robin match between Hawthorn, Richmond and North Melbourne broadcast exclusively that night. Fox Footy has exclusive broadcast rights to all NAB Cup games exclusively (except for the NAB Cup Grand Final which is also broadcast on Seven), all home and away matches and all finals matches (except for the Grand Final which will screen exclusively on Seven) until 2016. All matches are broadcast live to air in both Standard and High Definition with no commercial breaks during play. When two live matches are being played simultaneously, Fox Sports 1 broadcasts one of the matches.
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Brian Taylor left the network at the end of the 2011 season to join the Seven Network. He was replaced by former Network Ten commentator Anthony Hudson.
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[edit] RegularsThe following are not match commentators, but appear regularly on Fox Footy panel shows:
[edit] FormerThe following are former Fox Footy/Fox Sports Match commentators
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