United States: Fox Sports extends its live broadcasting rights deal for the Bundesliga for 2016

Fox Sports will add eight live broadcasts of the Bundesliga to its broadcast schedule, as of 30/01/2016, for the second half of the 2015-16 season, announced the US pay-TV group on 13/10/2015. This deal includes an additional live game on Saturdays, for eight matchdays in the first quarter of 2016.

Fox Sports owns the exclusive rights to broadcast the Bundesliga in the United States for the 2015-2020 period. The 306 games of the first German division each season are broadcast live or replayed on the Fox national channel as well as the pay-TV channels Fox Sports 1 and 2, and Fox Soccer Plus, while the Spanish-language pay-TV channel Fox Deportes broadcasts 105 Bundesliga matches per season.

The entire Bundesliga season is broadcast via live-streaming on the Internet (FOXSoccer.com, FOXSportsGO.com) and mobile applications (FOX Sports GO, FOX Soccer 2 GO).

• "We see the league having tremendous growth potential in the US, and we’re committed to that goal in the long-term,” said David Nathanson, head of business operations for FOX Sports, on 13/10/2015.
• "With such a strong global…