Fox Entertainment Group
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Fox Entertainment Group NYSE: FOX 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 (formerly Australian) 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 Fried, who created the original Fox Film Corporation.
After 1996, Saban joint ventured with the Fox Children's Network to form Fox Kids Worldwide, which in 1999 was renamed Fox Family Worldwide. In August 2001, Disney acquired Fox Family from News Corp and Saban.
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Corporate divisions
- Filmed Entertainment
- Fox Studios
- Australia
- Baja
- Los Angeles
- 20th Century Fox
- 20th Century Fox Español
- 20th Century Fox International
- 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- Fox Television Studios
- Fox Studios
- Satellite Television
- Television Stations
- Television Broadcast Network
- Cable Network Programming
- O Canal da Fox (Brazil; 50% with Globo Cabo)
- Canal Fox (Latin America; 50% with Televisa)
- Fox Sports Net (50% with Cablevision, owns many local FSN stations)
- Fox Movie Channel
- Fox News Channel
- Fuel channel
- FX
- National Geographic Channel (with the National Geographic Society)
- Speed Channel
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