{"id":29717,"date":"2012-04-05T11:42:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T18:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29717"},"modified":"2012-04-05T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T19:10:17","slug":"fuel-tv-scratches-balls-and-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29717","title":{"rendered":"Fuel TV Scratches Balls (And Bats)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/fuel-logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/fuel-logo.jpg','popup','width=132,height=126,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\/2012\/04\/fuel-logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"95\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Fuel-Logo\" \/><\/a>We don&#8217;t watch it anymore, but it appears that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox<\/a><\/strong> may be hoping to push <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuel.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fuel TV<\/a><\/strong> into the mainstream by ditching action-only content and running straight into main stream sports coverage, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/03\/news-corp-planning-24-hour-sports-network-to-rival-espn-bloomberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No final decision has been made, but the plan would involve converting the company\u2019s action sports network <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuel.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fuel<\/a><\/strong> (36 million subs) into a new national offering, which would compete against fellow cablers Disney\/ABC\u2019s ESPN, Comcast\u2019s new NBC Sports Network and the CBS Sports Network. Like those entities, News Corp is attracted to the juicy affiliate fees a national sports network can command.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Might as well go to where the audience is. It&#8217;s certainly not in action sports. But Fuel was a nice try, certainly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/03\/news-corp-planning-24-hour-sports-network-to-rival-espn-bloomberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t watch it anymore, but it appears that Fox may be hoping to push Fuel TV into the mainstream by ditching action-only content and running straight into main stream sports coverage, according to a story on Deadline.com No final decision has been made, but the plan would involve converting the company\u2019s action sports network [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29721,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29717\/revisions\/29721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}