{"id":13847,"date":"2010-02-09T18:55:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T02:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13847"},"modified":"2010-02-09T19:12:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T03:12:40","slug":"viacom-still-in-line-for-fuel-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13847","title":{"rendered":"Viacom Still In Line For Fuel TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/SBJ201002080301-01.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/SBJ201002080301-01.jpg','popup','width=200,height=192,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/SBJ201002080301-01-tm.jpg\" height=\"96\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Sbj201002080301-01\" \/><\/a>Back on October 29, 2009 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11265\" target=\"_blank\">we mentioned a rumor<\/a><\/strong> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20091029\/surfs-up-news-corp-mulling-sale-of-action-sports-channel-fuel-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Things D<\/a><\/strong> about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">News Corp<\/a><\/strong>. selling off <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fuel.tv\" target=\"_blank\">Fuel TV<\/a><\/strong> to finance an approximately $800 million purchase of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelchannel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Travel Channel<\/a><\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Discovery<\/a><\/strong>. Now, it appears that it is more than a rumor according to a story on <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/article\/64773\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Business Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Fox Cable Networks<\/strong> is in advanced discussions on a deal that would sell its action sports channel Fuel TV to <strong>Viacom<\/strong>, according to several sources with direct knowledge of the talks. . . The sale was expected to close late last year, but the parties are still negotiating an agreement. Talks began last year when the companies discussed entering a joint venture around Fuel TV, but subsequent discussions led the parties to negotiations on a complete sale of the channel. Sources say Viacom will pay a sum in the low to mid-nine figures to secure the channel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great. If this goes through maybe <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MTV<\/a><\/strong> will finally add Parkour to the Fuel TV mix.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/article\/64773\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Business Journal<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fox-might-sell-sports-action-channel-fuel-tv-to-viacom-2010-2\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/television\/news\/e3ie48d97158d5e565957e3a6a5381f8307\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiredaily.com\/2010\/02\/is-viacom-looking-to-spend-some-money.html\" target=\"_blank\">Media Wire Daily<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbr.com\/tv-cable\/21028.html\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Business Report<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on October 29, 2009 we mentioned a rumor on All Things D about News Corp. selling off Fuel TV to finance an approximately $800 million purchase of the Travel Channel from Discovery. Now, it appears that it is more than a rumor according to a story on Sports Business Journal. Fox Cable Networks is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13851,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13847\/revisions\/13851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}