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advertisers within a broad spectrum of television networks, including other non-news cable networks and free-to-air
broadcast television networks.
Sports programming operations. A number of basic and pay television programming services, such as ESPN
and NBC Sports Network, as well as free-to-air stations and broadcast networks, provide programming that also
targets Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2 and the FSN RSNs’ respective audience. On a national level, the primary
competitors to Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2 and FSN are ESPN, ESPN2, NBC Sports Network and CBS Sports Net.
In regional markets, the FSN RSNs compete with other regional sports networks, including those operated by team
owners, cable television systems, local broadcast television stations and other sports programming providers and
distributors. Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2 and FSN also face competition online from Major League Baseball
Advanced Media, Yahoo Sports, ESPN.com, NBCSports.com and CBSSports.com, among others.
In addition, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, the FSN RSNs and FSN compete, to varying degrees, for sports
programming rights. The FSN RSNs compete for local and regional rights with local broadcast television stations,
other local and regional sports networks, including sports networks launched by team owners, and distribution
outlets, such as cable television systems. Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2 and FSN compete for national rights principally
with a number of national cable and broadcast services that specialize in or carry sports programming, including
sports networks launched by the leagues and conferences, and television “superstations” that distribute sports.
Independent syndicators also compete by acquiring and reselling such rights nationally, regionally and locally.
Distribution outlets, such as cable television systems, sometimes contract directly with the sports teams in their
service area for the right to distribute a number of those teams’ games on their systems. In certain markets, the
owners of distribution outlets, such as cable television systems, also own one or more of the professional teams in
the region, increasing their ability to launch competing networks and also limiting the professional sports rights
available for acquisition by FSN RSNs.
FX and FXX. FX and FXX face competition from a number of basic cable and pay television programming
services, such as USA Network (“USA”), TNT, Spike TV, Home Box Office, Inc. (“HBO”) and Showtime
Networks (“Showtime”), as well as free-to-air broadcast networks and Internet subscription and rental services that
provide programming that targets the same viewing audience as FX and FXX. FX and FXX also face competition
from these programming services in the acquisition of distribution rights to movie and series programming.
National Geographic U.S. National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild face competition for viewers and
advertising from a number of basic cable and broadcast television channels, such as Discovery Channel, History
Channel, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Science Channel, H2, Military Channel, Biography and Tru TV, as well as
free-to-air broadcast networks and sports, news and general entertainment networks which have acquired or
produced competing programming.
FIC. Internationally, the Company’s cable businesses compete with various local and foreign television
services providers and distribution networks for audiences, advertising, content acquisition and distribution
platforms.
STAR India. In India, the pay television broadcasting industry has several participants, and STAR India’s
entertainment channels compete with both pay and free-to-air channels since they are delivered by common cable,
direct-to-home and IPTV. STAR India also competes in India to acquire Hindi and other Indian languages film and
programming rights, and internationally for English film and programming rights.