Fox Entertainment Group: Difference between revisions
Appearance
Content deleted Content added
m rv |
|||
Line 66: | Line 66: | ||
==External links== |
==External links== |
||
*[http://www.fox.com/ Fox.com] |
*[http://www.fox.com/ Fox.com (USA)] |
||
*[http://www.mundofox.com/ MundoFox.com] |
|||
{{News Corporation}} |
{{News Corporation}} |
Revision as of 13:20, 19 May 2008
Fox Entertainment Group logo | |
Company type | Subsidiary of News Corporation |
---|---|
Industry | Motion pictures, Television |
Founded | 1990s |
Headquarters | New York City |
Key people | Peter F. Chernin, President and COO |
Revenue | ![]() |
![]() | |
![]() | |
Number of employees | 12,500 (2004) |
Fox Entertainment Group is an American entertainment industry company that owns film studios and terrestrial, cable, and direct broadcast satellite television properties. It is wholly owned and controlled by American media conglomerate News Corporation, since the company acquired all the stock of Fox. The transaction was completed on March 12 2005.
It is named after William Fox, born Wilhelm Fuchs, who created the original Fox Film Corporation.
In 1996, Saban entered into a joint venture with the Fox Children's Network to form Fox Kids Worldwide. In 1999 it was renamed Fox Family Worldwide. In August 2001, Disney acquired Fox Family (now ABC Family) from News Corp and Saban.
Corporate divisions
Filmed Entertainment
- Fox Studios
- Fox Studios Australia
- Baja
- Los Angeles
- 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
- 20th Century Fox
- Fox 2000 Pictures
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- Fox Atomic
- Fox Faith
- 20th Century Fox Television
- 20th Century Fox Español
- 20th Century Fox International
- 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Television Stations
Television Broadcast Network
Cable Network Programming
- Fox Sports Net (50% with Cablevision, owns many local FSN stations)
- Fox Movie Channel
- Fox News Channel
- Fox Reality
- FUEL TV
- FX
- National Geographic Channel (with the National Geographic Society)
- SPEED Channel
- Fox Latin American Channel
- Big Ten Network, minority owner.