Fox Sports en Español Launches New Program For NFL Football Fans

Posted on: September 3rd, 2008
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Tags: football, television
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Fox Sports en Español announced the launch of its first-ever weekly NFL football show, Fox Impacto NFL, premiering tonight at 9PM ET/6PM PT. The magazine-style show, hosted by Adrian Garcia with analysis by acclaimed sports commentator Eduardo Blancas, will give a unique insider look at the world of the NFL by evaluating the upcoming games and reviewing the past week’s action with a special focus on the NFL’s key teams and players.

The Fox Impacto NFL duo, Adrian and Eduardo, further the show’s Hispanic flavor and will help satisfy the growing demand amongst Hispanics for America’s greatest sport. This one-of-a-kind dynamic delivers the best highlights from around the league, inside analysis, statistics, and interviews with regards to the NFL’s top players and coaches.

“We are very excited to offer our audience an exclusive show such as Fox Impacto NFL,” said Tom Maney, Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales for Fox Sports en Español. “It only strengthens our existing programming footprint as we again take the lead in bringing our audience the most relevant programming they want.”

Since it is the first and only football program on Fox Sports en Español, the network has high hopes about Fox Impacto NFL and is very pleased with what they will be offering their viewers. Fox Impacto NFL will launch this week and will kick-off its debut featuring interviews with players and coaches from the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers. The show will also include a one-on-one special interview segment, Primero y Diez, with NFL players; beginning with Luis Castillo of the San Diego Chargers.

Fox Sports en Español has a track record of attracting the best talent for its programs and this is no exception. With his work as a commentator, anchor and presenter throughout his twenty years of experience in television and radio broadcast, Blancas has continuously proven his passion for football and was the natural choice for the network to launch this program.

“It is exciting to be part of this pioneering program which will be a great success,” said Eduardo Blancas, anchor of Fox Impacto NFL. “It is like no other program out there as Fox Impacto NFL offers sports fans an in depth analysis of the games in a modern, fun, and intense manner.”

About Fox Sports en Español
Fox Sports en Español features more than 1,500 hours of live, exclusive sports programming in Spanish and, with few exceptions, English SAP each year, including InterLiga(TM), the Copa Santander Libertadores, the Copa Nissan Sudamericana, and the FIFA Club World Cup soccer tournaments; the Major League Baseball regular season, divisional playoffs, All-Star Game and World Series; and premier combat sports including championship boxing from Mexico and the U.S, Ultimate Fighting Championship(R)(R) and kickboxing. The channel reaches more than 14.4 million cable and satellite households in the country, of which 4.6 million are U.S. Hispanic households.

Fox Sports en Español 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 Español online at foxsportsla.msn.com. “