Fox TV is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters.
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40 Facts About Fox TV
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The film network effort would fail after a few years, but 20th Century Fox TV continued to dabble in television through its production arm, TCF Television Productions, producing series for the three major broadcast television networks .
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Radio personality Clarke Ingram suggested that the Fox TV network is a revival or at least a linear descendant of DuMont, since Metromedia was founded when DuMont spun off its two remaining owned-and-operated stations, WNEW-TV and WTTG, as DuMont Broadcasting .
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The local charter affiliate was, in most cases, that market's top-rated independent Fox TV opted to affiliate with a second-tier independent station in markets where a more established independent declined the affiliation .
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Fox TV added one new show per week over the next several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street and comedies Mr President and Duet completing its Sunday schedule.
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In regards to its late night lineup, Fox TV had already decided to cancel The Late Show, and had a replacement series in development, The Wilton North Report, when the former series began a ratings resurgence under its final guest host, comedian Arsenio Hall.
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Fox TV aired the 39th Primetime Emmy Awards and would air the next five editions.
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In 1989, Fox TV first introduced the documentary series Cops and crime-focused magazine program America's Most Wanted .
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Fox TV survived where DuMont and other attempts to start a fourth network had failed because it programmed just under the number of hours defined by the FCC to legally be considered a network.
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From its launch, Fox TV had the advantage of offering programs intended to appeal toward a younger demographic adults between 18 and 34 years of age – and that were edgier in content, whereas some programs that were carried by the "Big Three" networks attracted an older-skewing audience.
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Until the early 1990s, when Fox TV expanded its programming to additional nights and outside prime time, most Fox TV stations were still essentially formatted as independent stations – filling their schedules with mainly first-run and acquired programming, and, during prime time, running either syndicated programs or, more commonly, movies on nights when the network did not provide programming.
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The series gained international prominence after Fox TV aired a special live episode in January 1992 as an alternative to the halftime show during Super Bowl XXVI, which was broadcast on CBS, marking the start of Fox TV's rivalry with the "Big Three" networks while popularizing the counterprogramming strategy against the Super Bowl telecast.
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Fox TV became a viable competitor to the older networks when it won broadcast television rights to the National Football League away from CBS.
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NFC contract, in fact, was the impetus for the affiliation deal with New World and SF Broadcasting's purchase of the Burnham stations, as Fox TV sought to improve local coverage of its new NFL package by aligning the network with stations that had more established histories and advertiser value than its charter affiliates.
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Later, in August 2000, Fox TV bought several stations owned by Chris-Craft Industries and its subsidiaries BHC Communications and United Television for $5.
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Fox TV completed its prime time expansion to all seven nights on January 19,1993, with the launch of two additional nights of programming on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, making it the fifth broadcast network to air programming on a nightly basis.
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Subsequently, on January 13,2014, Fox TV announced that it would abandon its use of the standard concept of greenlighting shows through the initial order of pilot episodes during the designated "pilot season", instead opting to pick up shows directly to series.
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On July 27,2018, in a deal first announced December 2017, and completed March 20,2019,21st Century Fox TV shareholders agreed to sell most of its key assets to The Walt Disney Company for $71.
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On January 30,2019, Fox TV ordered a second season, while the first-season finale saw an average audience of 11.
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Fox TV established a new in-house studio, Fox TV Alternative Entertainment, for investments in non-scripted formats.
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Fox TV began airing children's programming on September 8,1990, with the debut of the Fox TV Children's Network, a programming block that aired on Saturday mornings and weekday afternoons.
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In October 2001, Fox TV sold its children's division, Saban Entertainment and Fox TV Family Worldwide to The Walt Disney Company for $5.
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On September 13,2014, Xploration Station, a two-hour syndicated block produced by Steve Rotfeld Productions, began airing on Fox TV stations owned by several affiliate groups including Fox TV Television Stations and Tribune Broadcasting.
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Fox TV first tried its hand at a national news program in prime time with the hour-long weekly newsmagazine The Reporters, which was produced by the same team behind the Fox TV Television Stations-distributed syndicated tabloid program A Current Affair; the program ran from 1988 to 1990, when it was cancelled due to low ratings.
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Network tried its hand at a newsmagazine again in 1998 with Fox TV Files, hosted by Fox TV News Channel anchors Catherine Crier and Jon Scott, as well as a team of correspondents; it lasted a little over a year before being cancelled.
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Fox TV attempted national morning programs, only the first of which aired on the network itself.
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On January 22,2007, Fox TV premiered The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet on its owned-and-operated stations; hosted by Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy, the show was lighter in format and more entertainment-oriented, though its focus often changed when a major news story occurred.
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However, partly due to the fact that Fox TV had not yet established itself as a major network, the NFL chose to renew its contract with ABC .
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From 2007 to 2010, Fox TV aired the Bowl Championship Series—a group of college football bowl games held around New Year's Day, and the BCS National Championship Game .
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Fox TV largely discontinued analog broadcasts on June 12,2009, as part of the transition to digital television.
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Fox TV is the only broadcast network that currently carries adult animated comedies.
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The lone exceptions to this rule currently are El Paso, Texas affiliate KFOX-TV and WXIN, which respectively began producing newscasts for their CBS-affiliated duopoly partners using resources from their existing news departments in September 2014 and January 2015, with the Fox TV stations maintaining the same amount of news programming that they did beforehand.
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Fox TV maintains several video on demand venues for viewers to watch the network's programming, including a traditional VOD service called Fox TV on Demand, which is carried on most traditional cable, satellite, streaming, and telecom providers.
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Fox TV began broadcasting its programming in 720p high definition on September 12,2004, with that day's slate of NFC football games during week one of the 2004 NFL season.
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In cases where the Fox TV bug appears instead of the station's logo bug, the Twitter hashtag is directly above the Fox TV logo in the safe area.
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The final Fox TV show to convert to HD was Family Guy beginning with its September 26,2010, episode; all programming provided by Fox TV is broadcast in widescreen and in high definition as of 2013, and in Dolby Digital 5.
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When Fox TV launched on October 9,1986, as Fox TV Broadcasting Company, it used a logo with three squares containing the network's initials similar to BBC's current logo from 1997–present in the UK.
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That fine was reduced to $91,000 in January 2009 after an appeal of the fine by Fox TV was granted as a result of its earlier discovery that the FCC originally claimed to have received 159 complaints regarding the content in Married by America; it later admitted to only receiving 90, which came from only 23 people.
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