A new year, a new TV landscape for the Singapore sports fan

Sports fans had been fed a steady diet of content from Fox - and its previous iteration ESPN Star Sports - since the turn of the millennium. ST FILE PHOTO
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SINGAPORE - About 12 months ago, few among sports fans in Singapore would have predicted they would begin 2022 without Fox Sports - a staple offering here for years - as part of their TV diet.

But Disney's cessation of 13 pay-television channels - which included Fox Sports channels - on Oct 1 saw this come to pass. While the move was announced six months prior in April 2021, some are still adjusting to the change.

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