Fox (international)

Fox is a brand of television channels owned by Fox Networks Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company. The brand was included with Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox in 2019. It shares its name with the Fox Broadcasting Company, a now unaffiliated American television network owned by the Fox Corporation, which was spun off from 21st Century Fox before the sale. Except for the channel in Turkey, which focuses on original programming, the international Fox channels generally focus on syndicated programming.

As part of an agreement with Fox Corporation, Disney will phase out the Fox brand by 2024; the brand will continue to be leased as part of the transitional phase. As of 2022, areas that have been affected by the discontinuation of the Fox brand have included Latin America, Brazil and Finland; these networks have since been relaunched under the Star (stylized as ST★R) branding with the Greek version being relaunched under the FX branding.[1]

Current channels

Balkans & Serbia
  • Fox is a Serbian television channel launched on October 15, 2012. Previously under the name Fox Televizija, it launched on December 31, 2006, and broadcasts all programs before being acquired by Greece's Antenna Group and became Prva Srpska Televizija on September 20, 2010.

Baltics and CIS

Belgium
  • Fox is a Flemish channel launched on October 1, 2015.

Bulgaria
  • Fox is a Bulgarian channel launched on October 15, 2012.

Japan
  • Fox is a Japanese channel launched on February 1998.

Middle East and North Africa
  • Fox Arabia is a Middle Eastern and North African channel launched on March 1, 2011.

Netherlands

Poland
  • Fox is a Polish channel launched on November 6, 2010.

Portugal
  • Fox is a Portuguese channel launched in 2003.

Spain
  • Fox is a Spanish channel launched on June 30, 2002. The channel will be rebranded as Star Channel sometime in 2023.[5]

Turkey
  • Fox (previously TGRT) is a Turkish channel launched on February 24 2007.

Former channels

Asia
  • Fox Asia, the channel closed in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong on October 1, 2021, and Taiwan on January 1, 2022, with most of its content shifting to the Star content hub on Disney+ (for Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and Disney+ Hotstar (for Southeast Asia region outside Singapore and Philippines).[6]
  • Fox Thailand
  • Fox Philippines
  • Fox Korea, due to the ongoing expansion of Star in 2020, "T.cast," the licensor of FOX in Korea, announced that they would relaunch the channel as Ch.NOW.
  • Fox Taiwan, the channel, was renamed as the second incarnation of the Taiwan feed of Star World on January 1, 2022.

Denmark
  • Xee was a Danish TV channel and video-on-demand service co-owned by Fox Networks Group and YouSee which aired a mixture of typical international Fox programming and domestic Danish programs, in addition to broadcasting association football matches from the Premier League. The channel used the international Fox branding and was launched on January 20, 2019. Fox Networks Group ceased to operate the channel on December 30, 2021, with ownership of the channel transferred to Viaplay Group (then known as NENT Group) on that date; the latter company rebranded the channel and renamed it to See.[7] Much of the Fox programming that used to air on Xee has since been migrated to the Star content hub on Disney+ in Denmark.

Finland
  • Fox (formerly SuomiTV) is a Finnish channel launched in 2009. The channel rebranded to Star Channel on January 6, 2023.[8]

Germany, Austria and Switzerland
  • Fox was a German channel launched on May 20, 2008. The channel closed on September 30, 2021, with most of its content shifting to the Star content hub on Disney+.[9]

Greece
  • Fox was a Greek channel launched on October 1, 2012. It was closed in March 15, 2023, being replaced by the second iteration of FX Greece.

Hungary
  • Fox was a Hungarian basic cable TV channel launched on February 4, 2014. The channel was shut down on April 30, 2018, to focus on its streaming service, Fox+,[10] which would be eventually replaced by Disney+.

Italy
  • Fox was an Italian channel launched on July 31, 2003, and closed on July 1, 2022.

Latin America
  • Fox Channel was a Latin American channel launched on August 14, 1993. It was relaunched as Star Channel on February 22, 2021.[11]

Norway
  • Fox was a Norwegian channel launched on July 1, 2013. The channel closed on March 31, 2021, with most of its content shifting to Disney+.[12]

South Africa
  • Fox (formerly "'Fox Entertainment") was a South African channel launched on May 1, 2010, and closed on October 1, 2021. Most of its content would move to Disney+, which was launched in South Africa on May 18, 2022.[13][14]

UK and Ireland
  • Fox (previously FX289 and FX) was a British and Irish channel launched on January 12, 2004. The channel closed on July 1, 2021, with most of its content moving to the Star content hub on Disney+.[15]

See also

References
  1. "Disney Renaming Fox Channels In Latin America To Star". What's On Disney Plus. Retrieved January 16, 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "НТВ-ПЛЮС: Телеканалы FOX, FOX Life, National Geographic и Nat Geo Wild прекращают вещание на территории России". TVnews.by | Новости ТВ, IT и коммуникаций (in Russian). Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  3. "Телеканалы National Geographic и FOX прекращают вещание в Беларуси". TVnews.by | Новости ТВ, IT и коммуникаций (in Russian). 30 September 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  4. "FOX (Latvia) - Continuity (27 January 2023)". 2023-01-28. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  5. "La marca Fox desaparecerá en España y será sustituida por Star Channel". Portal Disney (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  6. Middleton, Richard (2021-04-28). "Disney to close 18 channels in Asia as streaming focus expands". Digital TV Europe. Retrieved 2021-04-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Kjærgaard, Bo (December 30, 2021). "Xee hedder nu See". Digitalt.tv (in Danish). Retrieved September 29, 2022.
  8. TV, Fox. "FOX on tammikuussa STAR Channel". www.foxtv.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  9. What's on Disney Plus: Disney Junior, FOX, to close in Germany, Austria and Switzerland Archived 2021-10-26 at the Wayback Machine July 6, 2021.
  10. "Megszűnik a Magyar FOX at Sorozatjunkie". A Junkie (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  11. What's on Disney Plus: Disney renaming the FOX channels in Latin America to Star. November 27, 2020.
  12. Kampanje (in Norwegian): Disney legger ned TV-Kanal I Norge March 2, 2021.
  13. Broadband TV news: FOX to shut Africa channel on September 30th. 24 August 2021. Retrieved August 25, 2021.
  14. News24: Disney ends the FOX channel in Africa, rips away The Walking Dead's final season. August 24, 2021.
  15. Kanter, Jake (2021-05-17). "Fox Channel To Close In The UK, With Shows Like 'War Of The Worlds' Moving To Disney+". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
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