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Fox Broadcasting Company

American commercial broadcast television network
Organization television_network Q166419
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Summary

Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of television network entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22,510 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: television production company[4]
  • Founder: Rupert Murdoch[5], Barry Diller[6]
  • Headquarters location: 1211 Avenue of the Americas[7]
  • Commons category: Fox Broadcasting Company[8]
  • Inception: October 9, 1986[9]
  • Location of formation: United States[10]
  • Parent organization or unit: Fox Corporation[11]
  • Official website: https://fox.com[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Fox Broadcasting Company[13]
  • Motto text: Don't Let Fox Weekend Pass You By[14]
  • Legal form: limited company[15]
  • Owner of: Fox Sports[16], Fox Sports International[17], Fox Life[18], Fox News[19]
  • Different from: Fox Film Corporation[20], Fox[21]
  • Operating area: North America[22]
  • Social media followers: 1,402,820[23], 1,397,226[24], 1,435,467[25], 1,454,560[26], 11,900,000[27], 13,100,000[28], 14,500,000[29]
  • Stylized name: FOX[30], FOX Broadcasting Company[31]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Began / founded: 1986-10-09[32]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 9b1ffcb2-fc3f-4367-968a-1c873d3295be[33]

Why It Matters

Fox Broadcasting Company has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 105 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 5ED1-FE40-632C-F478-0A6E
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  2. 9w ago · WebRunner95 · 2026-08-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member of → Q122938552
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Member of: JournalList, Update outlet to include JournalList trust.txt membership ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/ebc4912058e|details]])"
  3. 15w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['2PO4TA', '4DOTHb']
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  4. 15w ago · Sabelöga · 2026-07-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Different from → Fox Film Corporation, Fox
    Location of formation → United States
    Country → United States
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Wikisimpsons article id: 17326, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/296187549|Fox Broadcasting Company (#296187549)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8109|Wiki"
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