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== History ==
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===Early years===
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During the [[2006 Commonwealth Games]] in [[Melbourne]], Fox Sports carried an additional eight channels dedicated to Games events. These were available to customers at an additional charge.
Fox Sports was the exclusive broadcaster of the [[A-League]] from its first season in 2005 until 2020. In 2006, an A$120 million deal between the [[Football Australia|Football Federation Australia]] and Fox Sports was reached after the end of the first season. Under the deal, Fox Sports had exclusive rights from 2007 to all [[Australia men's national soccer team|Socceroos]] home internationals, all A-League and [[Asian Cup]] fixtures, [[FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] qualifiers through the [[Asian Football Confederation]], and all [[AFC Champions League]] matches.
The deal to cover the [[A-league]] live and exclusive reaped big rewards for Fox Sports, its ratings were very strong in the
Ratings for [[Association football|football]] have generally been very good. The Socceroos first game of the [[2007 AFC Asian Cup]], attracted 345,000 viewers,<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/asian-cup-news/football-boots-big-league/2007/07/09/1183833431250.html | title=footballboots big league | work=The Sydney Morning Herald | date=10 July 2007}}</ref> while their quarter-final drew an average of 419,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/56973,japan-game-a-tv-record.aspx |title=Japan Game a TV Record |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928021200/http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/56973,japan-game-a-tv-record.aspx |archive-date=28 September 2007}}</ref> – at the time, an all-time record for Australian Pay TV. This record was broken on 1 April 2009, when the Socceroos defeated [[Uzbekistan national football team|Uzbekistan]] to put them very close to qualification for the [[2010 FIFA World Cup]]. This match was watched by an average of 431,000 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.crikey.com.au/chappell/2009/04/02/socceroos-almost-through-to-world-cup-as-largest-ever-foxtel-audience-tunes-in/|title=Crikey – On politics, media, business, the environment and life|access-date=2 April 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110715021206/http://blogs.crikey.com.au/chappell/2009/04/02/socceroos-almost-through-to-world-cup-as-largest-ever-foxtel-audience-tunes-in/|archive-date=15 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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* ''[[Shoot Out (TV series)|Shoot Out]]''
* ''[[Supercars Life]]''
* UFC Fight Week<ref name="foxtel.com.au1">[http://www.foxtel.com.au/got/whats-on/foxtel-insider/fox-sports/ufc-fight-week.html UFC Fight Week] foxtel.com.au {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216214922/https://www.foxtel.com.au/got/whats-on/foxtel-insider/fox-sports/ufc-fight-week.html |date=16 February 2017 }}</ref>
===Former programming===
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* [[Bangladesh Premier League]]
* [[Pakistan Super League]]
* [[Major League Cricket]]▼
* [[International League T20]]
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* [[National Basketball League (Australia)|National Basketball League]] (All games live on ESPN, including semi-finals and Grand Final) (Shared with 10 Peach)
* [[Women's National Basketball League]] (Shared with ABC)
====Cricket====
▲* [[Major League Cricket]] (Now on Amazon Prime Video)
====Ice hockey====
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* [[AFC Champions League|Asian Champions League]] (All games involving Australian teams live, plus some others) (2021)
* [[AFC Asian Cup]] (All Games, 28 games (include the Socceroos team) exclusively live) (2021)
* [[Australia men's national
*[[Indian Super League]] (2021)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/fox-sports-australia-will-broadcast-the-new-indian-super-league-football-competition/story-e6frf423-1227059138816|title=Fox Sports to show Indian Super League|date=15 September 2014}}</ref>
* Other separate International Football matches
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* [[WTA Tour]] (replays)
* [[Hawaii Open]]
====WWE====
* [[Raw (WWE brand)|RAW]] (replay)
* [[SmackDown (WWE brand)|Smackdown]] (replay)
* [[NXT (WWE brand)|NXT]] (replay)
== Availability ==
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