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To: ed doell who wrote (1798)	3/12/1998 9:02:00 PM
From: Steve Hausser	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4748

To All, You are all going to start hearing a lot of gushing news coming out of Dallas. One of the biggest reasons is that they all had a chance to meet Dick Baron. ACTV's GM in Dallas. This is the man who started or founded the following: HBO, Fox Sports SW, Rocky MT Net, Sunshine Net, Prime Sports Net and just recently Fox Sports Americas in Latin America, this a recent release- Fos Sports Americas Achieves Fastest Subscriber Growth In Latin America For 1997 Network Tops Nine Million Subscriber Mark Overall LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Fox Sports Americas, the largest 24-hour all Spanish-language sports network in the world, announced today that it has surpassed the 9 million subscriber mark, more than tripling its Latin American distribution to 7.2 million, since launching in November 1996. Fox Sports Americas' was Latin America's fastest-growing channel in 1997 as a direct result of long-term carriage deals with the region's largest Multiple System Operators (MSO's), and SKY Latin America, the DTH platform which launched in December 1996. "Fox Sports Americas' significant and rapid subscriber growth is especially noteworthy in today's competitive cable environment," said Andrew Thau, Vice President and General Manager, Fox Sports Americas. "Fox Sports Americas is not only differentiating itself in the marketplace, but more importantly, is being viewed by operators as a way to add value in providing the best programming to subscribers." Fox Sports Americas programming line-up is anchored by Fox Sports Noticias, the first-ever pan-regional Spanish-language sports news program, produced in the region specifically for the Latin American market. This seven nights-a-week, fast-paced international news program complements the networks extensive Latin American programming line-up which includes: soccer from Argentina, Austria, Finland, Germany, Mexico, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and Portugal; championship boxing; Major League Baseball (MLB); the National Football League (NFL); Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments including Wimbledon and the U.S. Open; soccer tournaments such as the UEFA Cup, Cup Winners Cup (Recopa) and the F.A. Cup; PGA Golf; PAC-1O College Basketball and the NCAA College Basketball Tournament; rugby including The Super 12's and The Five Nations; as well as other professional sports such as kickboxing, autoracing, volleyball, track and field, extreme sports and watersports. Fox Sports Americas is available to over 9 million subscribers in the U.S. and Latin America, and is a division of Fox Sports International, a joint venture between News Corporation Ltd., Liberty Media Corporation and Tele-Communications International, Inc. (TCI). SOURCE Fox Sports Americas CO: Fox Sports Americas ST: California IN: PUB ENT HSP SU: 02/17/98 15:33 EST prnewswire.com