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New channel: FOX NL

(August 2013)

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Maarten1
Today, FOX launched its first free accessible channel in the Netherlands since years.
The channel is to broadcast sports, series and films.

Last year, Murdoch bought 51% of the Dutch Premier League tv channels (owned by the clubs) for 1 billion euros. Fox is now broadcasting the matches live, and the company also bought the right to broadcast the summaries (like Match of the Day), starting next season. According to Dutch legislation the summaries of the national premier league should be broadcast freely, not behind a decoder.

Between 2000 and 2001, Fox had its channel in the Netherlands, but it failed. Generally because of the reruns of The Simpsons and other programmes like that. Nevertheless, Fox scheduled The Simpsons between 18h30 and 20h00 again...

www.foxtv.nl

Edit:
The channel launch has been published on YouTube:
Last edited by Maarten1 on 19 August 2013 6:22pm
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amosc100
But Fox Sports-Eredivisie is a subscription channel, just like Eredivisie Live was!!!!

Saw that Fox was starting today and also noted that they are moving some programmes from Foxlife to fill Fox schedule up

So Fox now have 3 cahnnels in The Netherlands

Foxlife - oldest of the network and from todays changed its remit to become more female skewed
Fox Sports-Eredvisie - started just before the start of the Dutch season - saw a couple of games on the channel a couple of weeks back and the presentation s still as poor as ever
and now Fox a general enteratinment and sports highlights channel aimed more at a male audience - same vein as RTL7.
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Maarten1
amosc100 posted:
But Fox Sports-Eredivisie is a subscription channel, just like Eredivisie Live was!!!!


True. Even Murdoch cannot make a billion with an open channel Smile
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A former member
I like the styling of the idents - similar to the UK's FOX.
JA
JAS84
Maarten1 posted:
Between 2000 and 2001, Fox had its channel in the Netherlands, but it failed. Generally because of the reruns of The Simpsons and other programmes like that.
Where's your proof? There's plenty of other reasons why a channel would fail, subscription costs, for starters.
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Maarten1
JAS84 posted:
Maarten1 posted:
Between 2000 and 2001, Fox had its channel in the Netherlands, but it failed. Generally because of the reruns of The Simpsons and other programmes like that.
Where's your proof? There's plenty of other reasons why a channel would fail, subscription costs, for starters.


http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2664/Nieuws/article/detail/3494746/2013/08/19/Is-FOX-een-verrijking-van-het-Nederlandse-tv-landschap.dhtml
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amosc100
maarten, slghtly off topic (well very much off topic) but is there any reason as to why SBS6 have stopped screening Coronation Street in the afternoons?
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Maarten1
amosc100 posted:
maarten, slghtly off topic (well very much off topic) but is there any reason as to why SBS6 have stopped screening Coronation Street in the afternoons?


I have no idea. I actually didn't knew they aired it. Smile
SBS6 is currently in heavy weather, with very low audience rates. Maybe they want to rebroadcast some other series? (chuckle)
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JAS84
Maarten1 posted:
JAS84 posted:
Maarten1 posted:
Between 2000 and 2001, Fox had its channel in the Netherlands, but it failed. Generally because of the reruns of The Simpsons and other programmes like that.
Where's your proof? There's plenty of other reasons why a channel would fail, subscription costs, for starters.


http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2664/Nieuws/article/detail/3494746/2013/08/19/Is-FOX-een-verrijking-van-het-Nederlandse-tv-landschap.dhtml
The Simpsons thing reads like opinion, not fact. It was other older shows that bear the blame, notably The A Team.
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Between 1998 and 2001 tried it with programs like Fox Tours (Katja Schuurman), Zoey Zappt (With Eddy Zoey), The A-Team (the umpteenth repetition) and day David Letterman, but to no avail.
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harshy Founding member
amosc100 posted:
But Fox Sports-Eredivisie is a subscription channel, just like Eredivisie Live was!!!!

Saw that Fox was starting today and also noted that they are moving some programmes from Foxlife to fill Fox schedule up

So Fox now have 3 cahnnels in The Netherlands

Foxlife - oldest of the network and from todays changed its remit to become more female skewed
Fox Sports-Eredvisie - started just before the start of the Dutch season - saw a couple of games on the channel a couple of weeks back and the presentation s still as poor as ever
and now Fox a general enteratinment and sports highlights channel aimed more at a male audience - same vein as RTL7.


There is a fourth fox channel as well showing football from the other European leagues

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