Network will air Spanish-language coverage of all 110 games this season

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Fox Sports en Espanol's exclusive coverage of the UEFA Champions League will begin at 2:30 pm ET on Tuesday, August 18, as FC Timisoara (ROU) takes on VfB Stuttgart (GER) in the first leg of the playoff round. The network will televise 110 live and prime-time UEFA Champions League and Super Cup matches for the next three seasons to 14 million cable and satellite households in the U.S., providing an unprecedented level of tournament coverage in the Hispanic market.

In a deal first announced last April, Fox Sports en Espanol acquired the U.S. Spanish-language media rights to the UEFA Champions League, Europe's most prestigious annual club competition, and the yearly UEFA Super Cup match for the 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons. Fox Sports en Espanol will also have the rights to broadcast ancillary UEFA Champions League programming, including preview and review shows, archived matches and magazine programs. FSE's website, www.foxsportsla.msn.com, will feature UEFA Champions League video highlights, as will the Fox Sports Movil offering for video-enabled wireless devices.

"We are thrilled to bring the UEFA Champions League to the first and biggest Spanish-language sports network in the United States," said David Sternberg, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Fox Sports en Espanol. "This prestigious tournament will strengthen our programming lineup tremendously and deliver outstanding year-round action on multiple platforms to Latino soccer fans around the country."

Fox Sports en Espanol's Champions League coverage will include one live and one premiere match telecast per match day - including prime-time transmissions of live offerings from sister networks Fox Soccer Channel and FSN - as well as live pregame and postgame shows from its Los Angeles studios. All live matches will kick off at 2:45 p.m. ET on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the course of the season. Fox Sports en Espanol will also televise a 30-minute Champions League highlight show each Friday.

The UEFA Champions League - first staged in 1955 - features the reigning champion and other top-of-table finishers from each of Europe's domestic competitions, historically including elite clubs such as Chelsea, Liverpool, FC Barcelona, AC Milan and Bayern Munich. FC Barcelona is the current defending champion, while Real Madrid has won a record nine titles. The 2008 Champions League final was watched by an estimated 130 million people worldwide.

August Matches

                                                                       Live /
    #  Day       Date    Time (ET)       Match                        Delayed
    1) Tue    8/18/2009  2:30:00 PM Timisoara (ROU) v Stuttgart (GER)       L
    2) Tue    8/18/2009  5:00:00 PM Sporting Clube (POR) v Fiorentina (ITA) D
    3) Tue    8/18/2009  7:00:00 PM Celtic (SCO) v Arsenal (ENG)            D
    4) Wed    8/19/2009  10:30:00AM FC Kobenhavn (DEN) v APOEL (CYP)        D
    5) Wed    8/19/2009  12:30:00PM FC Sheriff (MDA) v Olympiacos (GRE)     D
    6) Wed    8/19/2009  2:30:00 PM Panathinaikos (GRE) v Atl. Madrid (ESP) L
    7) Wed    8/19/2009  5:00:00 PM Olympique Lyonnais (FRA)
                                     v Anderlecht (BEL)                     D
    8) Wed    8/19/2009  12:30:00AM Salzburg (AUT) v Maccabi Haifa (ISR)    D
    9) Thu    8/20/2009  11:00:00AM Ventspils (LVA) v Zurich (SUI)          D
    10)Thu    8/20/2009  1:00:00 PM Levski Sofia (BUL) v Debreceni VSC (HUN)D
    11)Tue    8/25/2009  2:30:00 PM Atl. Madrid (ESP) v Panathinaikos (GRE) L
    12)Tue    8/25/2009  5:00:00 PM Anderlecht (BEL) v
                                     Olympique Lyonnais (FRA)               D
    13)Tue    8/25/2009  1:00:00 AM Debreceni (HUN) v Levski Sofia (BUL)    D
    14)Wed    8/26/2009  10:30:00AM Zurich (SUI) v Ventspils (LVA)          D
    15)Wed    8/26/2009  12:30:00PM Maccabi Haifa (ISR) v Salzburg (AUT)    D
    16)Wed    8/26/2009  2:30:00 PM Fiorentina (ITA) v Sporting Clube (POR) L
    17)Wed    8/26/2009  5:00:00 PM Arsenal (ENG) v Celtic (SCO)            D
    18)Wed    8/26/2009  7:00:00 PM Stuttgart (GER) v Timisoara (ROU)       D
    19)Thu    8/27/2009  2:00:00 PM APOEL (CYP) v Kobenhavn (DEN)           D
    20)Thu    8/27/2009  4:00:00 PM Olympiacos (GRE) v Sheriff (MDA)        D

2009/10 UEFA Champions League Match Schedule and Draw Dates:

    August 18 & 19, 2009                Playoff Round - First Leg
    August 25 & 26, 2009                Playoff Round - Second Leg
    August 27, 2009                     Draw for Group Stage
    September 15, 16, 29 & 30, 2009     Group Stages
    October 20 & 21, 2009               Group Stages
    November 3, 4, 24 & 25, 2009        Group Stages
    December 8 & 9, 2009                Group Stages
    December 18, 2009                   Draw for Elimination Stage
    February 16, 17, 23 & 24, 2010      Round of 16 - First Leg
    March 9, 10, 16 & 17, 2010          Round of 16 - Second Leg
    March 19, 2010                      Draw for Quarters, Semis and Final
    March 30 & 31, 2010                 Quarterfinals - First Leg
    April 6 & 7, 2010                   Quarterfinals - Second Leg
    April 20 & 21, 2010                 Semifinals - First Leg
    April 27 & 28, 2010                 Semifinals - Second Leg
    Saturday, May 22, 2010              Final - Santiago Bernabeu Stadium,
                                         Madrid, Spain

About Fox Sports en Espanol

Reaching more than 14 million cable and satellite households in the country, of which over 5 million are U.S. Hispanic Households, Fox Sports en Espanol is the leader in Spanish-language sports media. We feature premier soccer programming with exclusive coverage of the top leagues and tournaments in Latin America and Europe; coverage of the Major League Baseball regular season, All-Star Game, American League Championship Series and World Series; championship boxing and UFC(R) and mixed-martial arts across four compelling media platforms. With more than 1,600 hours of live and exclusive programming, a robust web site brimming with streaming video, portable content from FSE Movil and the Fox Sports en Espanol Magazine, we are and will continue to be the first name in the U.S. Hispanic sports space.

Fox Sports en Espanol is distributed by Fox Cable Networks Group and operated by Fox Pan American Sports LLC, an international sports programming and production entity jointly owned by HM Capital Partners, LLC and News Corporation's (NYSE: NWS) Fox Sports International. For more information, visit Fox Sports en Espanol online at foxsportsla.msn.com.

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