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Fox (German TV channel)

Fox Channel

Country	Germany
Broadcast area	Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Headquarters	Munich, Germany
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Fox Networks Group Germany GmbH (Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution)
Sister channels	National Geographic Channel
History
Launched	19 May 2008; 16 years ago (2008-05-19)
Replaced	Premiere Serie (on Premiere)
Closed	1 October 2021; 2 years ago (2021-10-01) [1]
Links
Website	www.foxchannel.de (archived, now redirects to www.disneyplus.com/de-de)

Fox (sometimes known as Fox Channel) was a German pay television channel dedicated to television drama series. It relied heavily on American and British drama series.

History[edit]

On 10 March 2008, News Corporation applied for a broadcasting license for Fox International Channels Germany GmbH from MABB, the media authority for the Berlin Brandenburg region. The channel was greenlit a month later. It was launched on 19 May 2008 exclusively on satellite-television provider Premiere.^[2]

On 1 April 2009, the channel changed its aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 widescreen.^[3] In October 2010, it launched its own HD feed, broadcasting at 1080i.

In November 2011, FOX bought pay-TV rights to rerun the first two seasons of legal drama The Good Wife. After a successful run, FOX bought the rights to show new episodes, starting with season three. The free-TV rights were with ProSiebenSat.1 Media which planned to broadcast the third season to be shown on sixx. However, season three was released on DVD with no free-to-air television broadcasts. On 10 July 2013, The Bridge premiered on FOX after a rerun of the original.

On October 4, 2017, Fox Networks Group Germany launched Fox+.

Closure[edit]

On 6 July 2021, it was announced that Fox, along with Disney Junior would close in Germany on 30 September 2021, on the same time with the Asian version and African version of the channel, with most of its content shifting to Star content hub on Disney+.^[4]

Programming[edit]

Source:^[5]

Series broadcast on the channel included:

Audience share[edit]

Germany[edit]

	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	Annual average
2014[6]	-	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2015[7]	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2016[8]	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2017[9]	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2018[10]	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website