History Creator / FOX

* ''''' Series/AlertMissingPersonsUnit''''' (2023-present)

In 1993, shortly after the network began programming every night of the week, they shocked the industry by picking up the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_Conference NFC]] contract for over a billion dollars. The network then signed up with stations owned by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Communications New World Communications]], owner of stations in several NFC markets (it had previously been Storer Communications of UsefulNotes/ToledoOhio, a major owner of TV stations, distribution firms and cable systems, only for the stations and distribution assets to be sold to the remnants of New World Pictures, once a BMovie company started by Creator/RogerCorman, then the former owners of Creator/MarvelComics). While Creator/{{ABC}} and Creator/{{NBC}} were hurt by this loss, it had truly devastating effects on Creator/{{CBS}}, the former holder of the NFC package, who had to move to lower-tier UHF stations in several cities (such as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGCL-TV channel 46 in Atlanta]], initially set to affiliate with Creator/TheWB, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDJT-TV channel 58 in Milwaukee]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWJ-TV channel 62 in Detroit]][[note]]the last of which doesn't even produce local news and hasn't for virtually all of its time as a CBS station, unheard of for a Big Three station in what remained a Top 10 market well into the new millenium[[/note]]). To add insult to injury, Fox also signed over football commentators (such as Pat Summerall, John Madden, Terry Bradshaw, Dick Stockton, and James Brown) from CBS in addition to plundering its affiliates. The combination of the New World deal and the football contract in the early '90s were responsible for cementing Fox's status as being on par to the three major networks, and sent CBS into a DorkAge that it would take a decade to get out of. (It also helped set off some DisasterDominoes through the TV industry.)

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->''!Oh, the slogan is true: Watch Fox and be damned for all eternity!"''

->''Oh, the slogan is true: Watch Fox and be damned for all eternity!''
-->--'''Ned Flanders''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* '''''Series/AlterEgo''''' (2021-present)

Australian media mogul UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch came to America in the 1980s in order to buy out the [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]] film studio and give it a sibling TV network. Murdoch purchased the Metromedia group of six independent stations in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas-Fort Worth]], UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, and UsefulNotes/{{Houston}} to serve as the nucleus of the network.

(Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox had also owned 50% of an early fourth television network attempt, [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTA_Film_Network NTA Film Network]]. Its flagship, New Jersey-based WNTA, later became NET affiliate WNDT, which later became Creator/{{PBS}} affiliate WNET. Its Los Angeles affiliate KTTV became one of Fox's O&Os at its founding in 1986, and is still so as of 2017.)

Fox was left without an attached production studio, which lead to initial speculation that the network would operate with a lessened emphasis on scripted entertainment in favor of sports, reality, and news programming. Indeed, the network would sign a five-year deal to carry the NFL's Thursday Night Football package beginning in 2018 (the network would drop the package in 2022, making it exclusive to Creator/PrimeVideo). Fox would also become the new home for ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown'' beginning in October 2019, returning the show to over-the-air broadcast television and marking the second time ''[=SmackDown=]'' has aired on a Fox-owned network, both of which last happened in 2010, before the show moved from Creator/MyNetworkTV to under the Comcast / NBC Universal umbrella.

The network denied any change in strategy, however, claiming that it intends to stay in the entertainment business going forward by buying content from the non-network affiliated studios (Creator/WarnerBros, Creator/SonyPicturesTelevision, Creator/{{MGM}}, and Creator/{{Lionsgate}} being the most prominent) and taking an ownership stake in these programs. The network thusly premiered 10 new scripted series in the 2019-20 season, its first as an independent network, with only 3 of them beginning that fall. As part of the transition, the network launched a new television production unit, Creator/FoxEntertainment.[[note]]Several of the shows the network premiered that season are co-produced and in some cases co-owned by the Disney-owned then-20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment, which initially lead to the confusing situation where their credits had two different logos for differently-owned companies that shared the "Fox" name.[[/note]] In order to stay in the animation business, Fox Entertainment subsequently acquired Bento Box Entertainment, producer of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', allowing the studio to continue to operate as an independent production house.[[note]] The sale didn't include rights to ''Bob's Burgers'' itself, which is still wholly owned by Disney.[[/note]] ''Krapopolis'', a Bento Box Creator/DanHarmon cartoon set in ancient Greece, set to air in 2022, will be the first scripted series fully owned by Fox Corporation to air on the network.

* ''Series/{{Touch}}'' (2012-13)

* ''Series/{{Werewolf}}'' (1987-88)

* ''Series/SoYouThinkYouCanDance'' (2005-19)

* ''Series/Greed'' (1999-2000)

* '''''Series/DontForgetTheLyrics''''' (2007-09, TBA): Originally ran from 2007 to 2009 on the network, a revival is in the works as of 2021.

!!List of Fox Corporation assets:
[[index]]
* Fox Broadcasting Company
** Creator/FoxEntertainment
*** Creator/BentoBoxEntertainment
*** Fox Alternative Entertainment
*** Sidecar
*** XOF Productions
** Fox Now
* Fox Television Stations
** 28 stations
** Creator/MyNetworkTV
** Movies! (50%)
** Fox Soul
** Fox First Run
* Fox News Media
** [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel Fox News]]
** Fox Business
** Fox News Radio
** Fox News Talk
** Fox Nation
* Fox Sports Media Group
** Fox Sports 1
** Fox Sports 2
** Fox Deportes
** Big Ten Network (51%)
** Fox Soccer Plus
** Fox Sports Racing
** Fox Sports Radio (brand licensing agreement with [[Creator/IHeartMedia Premiere Networks]])
** Fox Sports Digital Media
** The Stars Group (4.99%)
* Credible Labs
* TMZ
* Creator/{{Tubi}}
[[/index]]

Fox is an American broadcast network that launched on October 9, 1986. Named after what used to be the 20th Century Fox studio (itself a successor to the Fox Film studio that existed from 1915 to 1935), the network is the flagship property of the eponymous Fox Corporation, which includes sports and [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel news]] divisions, sibling networks Creator/MyNetworkTV and Fox Soul, animation studio Creator/BentoBoxEntertainment, the free streaming service Creator/{{Tubi}}, [=MarVista=] Entertainment among other assets.

* '''''Series/AmericasMostWanted''''' (1988-2011, 2021-present): Seasons 1-23; later moved to Creator/{{Lifetime}} for a while. A reboot is currently airing on the network.

* '''''Series/{{Pivoting}}''''' (2022-present)

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' (1987-97): The network's longest-running live action sitcom. Was the first acting gig for Creator/EdONeill (now on ''Series/ModernFamily'' as a dad, but not the kind that his character Al Bundy was), Creator/KateySagal (now on ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy,'' but outside of playing Peg Bundy, was also known as the voice of Turanga Leela on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}},'') Creator/DavidFaustino (who now does voicework on ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra,'') and Creator/ChristinaApplegate (who now does Broadway). Also considered the only show in American television not to have JumpedTheShark thanks to the addition of Ted [=McGinley=] (whose appearances made ''Series/HappyDays'' and ''Series/TheLoveBoat'' suffer [[note]]though some viewers will tell you that ''Happy Days'' and ''The Love Boat'' peaked long before that[[/note]]).

* ''Series/AlterEgo''

* '''''Series/TheBigLeap''''' (2021)

** '''''Series/TheMaskedDancer''''' (2020-present)

Fox is an American broadcast network that launched on October 9, 1986. Named after what used to be the 20th Century Fox studio (itself a successor to the Fox Film studio that existed from 1915 to 1935), the network is the flagship property of the eponymous Fox Corporation, which includes sports and [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel news]] divisions, sibling networks Creator/MyNetworkTV and Fox Soul, animation studio Creator/BentoBoxEntertainment, and the free streaming service Creator/{{Tubi}} among other assets.