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Just over two decades ago, the Fox Broadcasting Company began with a single late-night series and a goal to diversify American television by providing a previously unimaginable fourth major TV network. Today, as FOX celebrates 23 years in the business, it is the nation’s most popular programming network among its target audience of Adults 18-49 (having won a fifth consecutive season in the demo), and has been consistently ranked at the top among Adults 18-34 and Teens – the next generation of 18-to-49-year-olds.
FOX boasts many of television’s most groundbreaking and acclaimed series, including AMERICAN IDOL, 24, HOUSE, FRINGE, BONES, GLEE, THE SIMPSONS and FAMILY GUY.
The network’s sports programming includes 26 weeks of Major League Baseball regular-season action, as well as the American League Championship Series and World Series; the National Football League’s NFC championship game, Divisional and Wild Card Playoffs, and weekly Sunday afternoon NFC regular-season package; the Daytona 500 and a 13-week NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule; and the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic and college football’s prestigious Bowl Championship Series, which includes coverage of the Allstate Sugar Bowl, Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and the FedEx Orange Bowl.
FOX NEWS SUNDAY WITH CHRIS WALLACE, a one-hour live broadcast from Washington, DC, airs nationally on the FOX network on Sunday mornings. With the youngest audience and the most diverse guest roster in Sunday morning talk, the show features insightful interviews with political, business and public affairs newsmakers from the U.S. and abroad.
Fox Broadcasting Company serves as the apex to a global entertainment and information group created by News Corporation whose key production assets include Twentieth Century Fox Television and Fox Television Studios. Twentieth Century Fox Television, one of the industry’s most prolific suppliers of primetime television programming, currently produces 17 network and cable series, including the Emmy-nominated FAMILY GUY, 24 and “How I Met Your Mother.” Five years ago, the studio launched Fox21, a specialty production unit dedicated to producing distinctive, unconventional programming on a more cost-efficient economic model.
News Corporation’s theatrical production units include Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox Animation. Recent releases from Twentieth Century Fox include the blockbusters “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,” “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” “Taken,” “Marley & Me,” “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!,” “What Happens In Vegas,” “Jumper” and “27 Dresses.”
Other notable recent films include “The Simpsons Movie,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” “Live Free or Die Hard,” “Borat,” “Night at the Museum,” “X-Men: The Last Stand,” “Ice Age 2: The Meltdown” and “The Devil Wears Prada” and 2005’s “Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith,” “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” “Fantastic Four” and the Oscar-winning “Walk the Line.” Upcoming films include James Cameron’s “Avatar,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,” “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief” and “Gulliver’s Travels.”
Fox Searchlight’s films have garnered 51 Academy Award® and 42 Golden Globe® nominations. Recent hits include Academy Award®-winner “Slumdog Millionaire,” Academy Award®-nominated “The Wrestler” and the Sundance hit “(500) Days of Summer” directed by Marc Webb and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel.
Upcoming releases include Sundance Film Festival award winner “Adam” directed by Max Mayer and starring Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher and Amy Irving; “Whip It,” Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut starring Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Stern and Drew Barrymore; “Amelia” directed by Mira Nair and starring Oscar® winner Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor; “Gentleman Broncos” directed by Jared Hess and starring Michael Angarano, Jennifer Coolidge, Jemaine Clement, Mike White and Sam Rockwell; “Family Wedding” (working title) directed by Rick Famuyiwa and starring Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera, Carlos Mencia, Lance Gross, Regina King, Anjelah Johnson and Fred Armisen.
During the 1990s, as Fox Broadcasting was hitting its stride, News Corporation expanded into cable and satellite television programming. That led to the creation of Fox Cable Networks Group (FCN) in 2000. In June 2002, News Corporation combined its three industry leaders – Fox Broadcasting, FOX Sports and Fox Cable Networks – into Fox Networks Group (FNG).
Fox Networks Group manages 36 programming services and 19 owned-and-operated regional sports networks. FNG’s first cable and satellite networks – FX and Fox Movie Channel – were launched in 1994. Most recently, FNG has launched at least one new channel under the Fox Cable Networks Group umbrella every year since 2001.
Fox Cable Networks Group collectively reaches approximately 550 million cable, satellite and telephony-delivered television homes. The division’s national cable networks include some of the nation’s most prominent entertainment brands, including FX Networks, National Geographic Channel, SPEED, Fox Soccer Channel, Fox Sports en Espanol, FUEL TV, Fox Reality Channel and Big Ten Network. Launched in 2007, Big Ten Network is the nation’s first national network dedicated to a major collegiate conference.
The other prominent group within FCN is its 19 regional sports networks that serve as home to more than half of the Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association and National Hockey League teams based in the U.S., as well as several top collegiate conferences and universities.
News Corporation’s owned or affiliated satellite and other distribution services cover the United States, Asia, Australia, parts of Europe and the Pacific Rim. Wholly-owned STAR and Sky Italia, as well as part-owned British Sky Broadcasting, FOXTEL and Sky Deutschland, serve audiences in almost 60 countries.