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Article: Fox Sports International and Globostat Announce Joint Venture to Launch New Sports Channel in Brazil
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- January 28, 1997
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Two Major Latin American Programmers
Announce Plans to Launch Fox Sports in Brazil
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Fox Sports International and Globosat have formally announced a joint venture to launch a new Portuguese-language, 24-hour sports channel in Brazil, to be named Fox Sports. The announcement was made today by Tony Ball, President and Chief Operating Officer of Fox Sports International and Alberto Pecegueiro, General Director of Globosat.
The new channel, set to launch during the second quarter of 1997, will be distributed to cable exclusively via Sky Net Entertainment DBS service. Fox Sports ...