

Fox, Comcast Re-Up Xfinity Content Deal

Renewal has Fox delivering entertainment, sports, and news to some 22 million Comcast Xfinity subscribers but also opens the door for future offerings using new technologies.

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Fox and Comcast have renewed a deal to provide the cable provider's Xfinity customers with Fox Broadcasting and Fox Television Stations television content across multiple viewing platforms, the two companies said Tuesday.

The agreement re-ups the current arrangement that has Fox delivering entertainment, sports, and news video to some 22 million Comcast Xfinity subscribers on "televisions, computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and Internet-enabled televisions," but also opens the door for future offerings using new technologies.

"This unprecedented TV Everywhere agreement enables us to take advantage of the innovative technologies and platforms we've developed to deliver the best content to our customers," Greg Rigdon, executive vice president of content acquisition for Comcast, said in a statement.

Fox and Comcast included "a framework for both companies to continue to collaborate on new multiplatform offerings so that the companies can take advantage of new technologies and programming through the life of the deal, including Comcast's advanced advertising and ad systems integration services," the companies said in a statement.

A "longer-term" part of the deal would also "make available next-day full episode streaming of select Fox programming online to authenticated Xfinity TV customers for viewing whenever and however they wish to access them."

As part of the new agreement, Xfinity TV customers will continue to have On Demand and online access to content from Fox, FX, FX Movie Channel, National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, Speed, and Fuel TV, with some of the shows available including Glee, Bones, The Simpsons, Sons of Anarchy, The Americans, and Justified.

Movies broadcast by FX and FX Movie Channel will also be available on Xfinity. Sports and news programming from Fox Soccer, Fox Deportes, and Fox Business Network, among other Fox properties, is also part of the renewed package.

The deal's online component gives Comcast customers access to Fox websites and apps through their Xfinity accounts, as well as future access to Fox Now TV apps that provide full-episode streams of Fox content on various digital platforms with "enhanced interactive and social capabilities."

Financial terms were not disclosed.

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