The War for Sports: Fox Grabs TV Rights to U.S. Open Golf From NBC and ESPN
Posted in: Uncategorized21st Century Fox, Rupert Murdoch’s film and TV company, has signed a 12-year agreement to televise the U.S. Open golf tournaments, grabbing a marquee event from NBC and ESPN and boosting the company’s own fledgling all-sports network.
The Fox broadcast network and the new cable channel Fox Sports 1 will carry the U.S. Open, the U.S. Women’s Open and U.S. Senior Open championships from 2015 to 2026, 21st Century Fox said in a statement with the United States Golf Association. The deal includes broadcast, cable and multimedia rights.
The agreement marks Fox’s first foray into professional golf. With the U.S. Open, which traditionally airs in June, the company gains sports programming that can help highlight new shows ahead of the start of the prime-time TV season in September. Fox is taking over rights previously split between Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN and Comcast Corp.’s NBC.
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