its Mexico-based sister network and was responsible for the production of sports content on Azteca. The division produced association football matches from Liga MX, which typically aired under the brand "Fut Azteca." In 2013, the network began airing a prime time match-of-the-week involving teams within Liga MX on Friday nights under the brand "Viernes Futbolero" ("Friday Night Futbol"). In July 2016 Univision started their own block of Liga MX matches on Saturday nights using the "Futbolero" name called "Sábado Futbolero" ("Saturday Night Futbol"). Rather than a league media rights deal encompassing all teams, Liga MX allows its member clubs to negotiate its home broadcast contracts individually with a network in both Mexico and the United States, thus why Azteca América held individual team rights. The network stopped airing Liga MX matches after the Clausura 2017 season after the network sold their home match rights for Atlas, Morelia, Tijuana and Veracruz to Univision. In addition, Azteca broadcast a weekly lucha libre showcase on Saturday afternoons, Lucha Azteca, and Box Azteca, a weekly prime time boxing series that aired on most Saturday nights. At the end of the 2018–19 season, Azteca started airing two select La Liga Segunda División matches per weekend as part of an agreement with beIN Sports who sub-licensed the rights. Stations Azteca's network was formerly made up of 64 stations, 27 of which were operated by Azteca America. In many areas of the U.S. where the network was not available through broadcast television, Azteca provided a national cable network feed that is distributed directly to cable, satellite and IPTV providers as an alternative method of distribution in markets without either the availability or the demand for a locally based owned-and-operated or affiliate station. Related services Azteca HD Azteca's master feed was transmitted in 1080i high definition. However, only seven of the network's affiliate stations transmitted the network's programming in HD, all but two of which carried the network feed in 720p high definition; the remainder of its over-the-air stations transmitted Azteca programming in 480i standard definition either due to technical considerations for affiliates of other major networks that carry Azteca programming on a digital subchannel or because a primary feed Azteca affiliate has not yet modified or upgraded their transmission equipment to allow content to be presented in HD. Azteca América became the third major Spanish-language network in the United States (after Telemundo and Univision) to provide its