AT&T, Fox renew multi-year carriage deal
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Joseph O'Halloran
| 19 November 2018

It may be embroiled in a retrans row with Dish Network, but AT&T has chalked up a carriage success with Fox Networks Group over its video platforms.


The multi-year renewal covers Fox-owned local broadcast stations in 17 US cities and the 22 Fox-owned US regional sports networks. Channels include FS1, FS2, FX, FXX, FXM, National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo Wild, BabyTV, and Spanish-language services Fox Deportes, Nat Geo Mundo and Fox Life, as well as the Fox Soccer Plus pay-per-view service. These will be distributed across DIRECTV, DIRECTV NOW and AT&T U-verse.

“We are pleased to have closed a multi-year deal with Fox for their entire array of content. Our customers will continue to enjoy their programming live and on-demand on all their devices, both at home and on-the-go,” commented Daniel York, chief content officer and senior executive vice president for AT&T Communications. “Fox has worked with us in this deal to deliver more choice for consumers and better value to AT&T customers.”

Added Fox Networks Group president of distribution Mike Biard: “We’re pleased to expand our partnership with AT&T through this wide-ranging agreement which ensures that our top-rated entertainment and sports programming will remain broadly available to DIRECTV, DIRECTNOW and U-Verse customers for the foreseeable future.”