The Channels of Fox Sports were removed from the pay television platform Dish, after both companies owned by the Lauman Group Y MVS Communicationsrespectively, did not reach commercial agreements on the transmission of these contents.
According to Fox Sports, the dialogue with Dish was unsuccessful in keeping its content available on that satellite television system. For its part, Dish charged that Fox Sports unilaterally decided to raise by 80% the rates it establishes for cable and satellite operators to transmit their programs.
“To our esteemed fans of Fox Sports We inform you that unfortunately and despite our efforts, we have not reached a commercial agreement to continue distributing our channels in Dishes Mexico”, said the brand of Lauman Group.
“They intend to increase the rates of their signals by 80%, so that the subscriber pays more and receives less (…) We disagree with the disproportionate increases in rates, which are out of the budget of many Mexican families,” responded Dish from MVS.
If the transmission is maintained through a new agreement between both companies, consumers would pay an additional 110 pesos for Fox Sports content.
Due to this mismatch, the channels Fox Sports, Fox Sport 2 Y Fox Sports 3 They immediately stopped airing on Dish.
Dish acknowledged that after the departure of Fox Sports from its system, around 4 million subscribers will stop watching various Mexican soccer matches, but said that it will compensate its users with other offers, to have to transfer the cost of transmitting Fox Sports to these.
The disagreements between Dish and Fox Sports are part of the announcement of the creation of the Fox Sports Premium channel, which includes content from the WWEthe Formula 1matches of the MX League, Women’s MX League, CONCACAF Champions Leaguethe UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europe Conference League and the NFLamong others, all for 110 pesos and available on different platforms.
Fox Sports has been owned by the Lauman Group since 2021, after authorization from the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), which had forced the sale of those channels to approve the concentration of The Walt Disney Company Y Twenty First Century Fox in 2019.
