Fox Sports 1® finalizes deal w/ Dish, DirectTV, and Time Warner

Source | MMAFighting.com

Fox Sports 1 reached carriage deals today with DirecTV, The Dish Network and Time Warner Cable, according to a report today by the Los Angeles Times.

The new station, which debuts on Saturday with more than six hours of UFC programming, including a live event from Boston’s TD Garden headlined by Chael Sonnen vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua. The UFC takes up all of the new station’s first night prime time with 10 live fights airing from 6-11 p.m.

Until these deals were agreed to, the launch of the station was in danger of having very limited availability.

No terms were announced for the three deals, but it will boost the station’s availability from about 45 million homes to 85 million homes, out of the approximately 99 million cable and dish households.  There are more than 114 million U.S. television households