FX Movie Channel
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| Launched | October 31, 1994 |
| Network | FX Networks |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
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| Website | www |
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| Dish Network | 384 (HD) |
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| Available on most U.S. cable providers | Check local listings |
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FX Movie Channel (FXM) is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. The channel's programming consists largely of movies, primarily those from the 20th Century Fox, Twentieth Century Pictures, and Fox Film Corporation library. Its primary competitors are Time Warner's Turner Classic Movies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's MGM HD and Sony Pictures Entertainment's Sony Movie Channel, each of which likewise features films from its respective owner's inventory. Since 2012, FXM has separated its film content into two distinct blocks, with its main programming focusing more on recent films and its early-morning and daytime schedule (branded as "FXM Retro") focusing on classic films.
As of February 2015, FXM is available to approximately 52,607,000 pay television households (45.2% of households with television) in the United States.
Originally intended to be titled "Fox Movie Studio" during the planning stages, the channel first launched at midnight on October 31, 1994 as fXM: Movies from Fox, a name derived from its sister cable channel FX, which debuted five months earlier on June 1. The first movie to air on fXM was the 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Its original format focused solely on classic movies from the 20th Century Fox film library, which were presented commercial-free and (in regard to films originally released in black-and-white) uncolorized, and were generally shown without editing for content and time; the films that were broadcast were mainly releases from the 1920s to the 1980s. The channel officially changed to its name to Fox Movie Channel on March 1, 2000.
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