Unlike a certain startup outfit in Medley, Florida that only knows how to throw money around, the brains at 10201 W Pico Blvd in Los Angeles actually know how to program a youth-oriented soccer-centric sports TV network to target males ages 18-34 after 7pm Eastern Time on Saturdays in September-November: -- College Football on FOX Deportes (in Spanish) Saturday August 11 9pm ET/6pm PT - Historia y Reglas (History and Rules introduction) Saturday August 18 9pm ET/6pm PT - PAC 12 introduction Saturday August 25 9pm ET/6pm PT - Big 12 introduction (All 3 introduction shows are 30 minutes each.) Friday August 31 9pm ET/4pm PT - Kickoff preview Saturday September 1 7pm ET/4pm PT - Kickoff preview (re-air; may be pre-empted by baseball) Saturday September 1 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT - Hawaii @ USC Saturday September 8 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT - Nebraska @ UCLA Saturday September 15 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT - USC @ Stanford Additional games through November 24 are TBA Friday November 30 8pm ET/5pm PT - PAC 12 Championship Saturday December 1 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT - B1G TEN Championship
http://video.latino.msn.com/watch/video/college-football-en-fox-deportes/4vhvah8l College Football returns to FOX Deportes for the first time in 16 years. FOX Sports Américas actually aired PAC 10 college football and basketball in 1996-1997 before those products were removed. Raul Alsina, who voices UFC on FOX Deportes and was previously the anchor of Cronica and Cronica FOX, will be the voice of College Football on FOX Deportes. Alsina was the English-language play-by-play voice of Liga Mexicana on mun2 very briefly. Prior to mun2, he was one of the English-language voices of GOLTV News on GOLTV (USA) and GOLTV Canada.
Pablo Alsina is correct. I have watched the first show. It is an honest attempt to introduce College Football to Spanish speaking viewers. However, I am skeptical whether this experiment will yield too many viewers because: 1. Spanish-speaking females tend to watch Sabado Gigante on Saturday nights. 2. Spanish-speaking males who are of Mexican descent tend to watch Liga MX on the Univision Networks on Saturday nights. 3. Bilingual Hispanic males who know college football already would prefer to watch FOX free-to-air in HD with English-language commentators at the stadium instead of a Spanish-speaking commentator doing voice overs off tube in Los Angeles. The only good thing about this experiement: it should be an improvement over airing taped or re-run soccer, no matter how slight the improvement is. The one thing we do know: FOX Deportes cannot afford to repeat the same failed prime time programming strategy that FOX Soccer continues to employ, as taped soccer during prime time leads to awful viewership and the excuse for MSOs to bump the channel off expanded basic or digital basic onto higher tiers