LA Times · May 30, 2016
Copa America shines bright lights on Fox, Univision
Fox Sports Mexico analysts discuss soccer during a show earlier this month. (Miguel Tovar / Getty Images) Rob Stone remembers sitting on the Fox Sports set in Vancouver a year ago, staring at a TV camera and nervously waiting for the red light to illuminate on what he knew would be a defining summer for both him and his network.
No one had ever covered a Women’s World Cup like Fox planned to cover this one. And the odds that things could go sideways, costing the network both money and prestige, were high.
“There were a lot of eyes scrutinizing us and listening very intently to what we said and how we laid out our shows,” Stone said. “And we passed that test.”