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Article: Fox Sports likes view from the Hill.(David Hill rejoins FOX Sports Net)(Brief article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- March 28, 2007
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Fox Sports has made it official: David Hill has returned to his old job as chairman-CEO after a two-year stint as president of the DirecTV Entertainment Group.
Move follows John Malone's agreement in principle three months ago to buy News Corp.'s 38% stake in DirecTV, a deal awaiting regulatory approval. News Corp. is the parent company of Fox Sports.
Hill said his shift back to Fox Sports couldn't be timelier, because the division owns the rights to more big-event sports product than at any other time in its history. Fox Sports profootball contract includes-the high-rated Sunday-afternoon NFL games, the next Super Bowl, the NFL Pro Bowl and the NFC ...