Fox Channel (Germany)
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| Launched | May 20, 2008 |
| Owned by | Fox Networks Group |
| Audience share | 0.2% (March 2017, KEK) |
| Country | Germany |
| Broadcast area | Germany, Austria, Switzerland |
| Headquarters | Munich, Germany |
| Replaced | Premiere Serie (on Premiere) |
| Sister channel(s) | National Geographic Channel |
| Website | http://www.foxchannel.de/ |
Fox (also known as Fox Channel or FOX Channel Germany) is a German pay-tv-channel dedicated to television drama series.
The channel heavily features American and British drama series from the major broadcast networks and premium cable networks. They are broadcast without interruptions with both German and English audio.
On March 10, 2008, News Corporation officially requested a broadcasting license for the FOX International Channels Germany GmbH at the media institute Berlin-Brandenburg (MABB). A month later, the green-light was given for launching the FOX Channel. It launched on May 19, 2008 and became part of the pay television platform Premiere, which was later renamed to Sky Deutschland, in October 2008. As of 2013, FOX Channel can be viewed through most cable operators - as part of a pay-TV package - and Sky Deutschland.
In the beginning, FOX aired HBO television series' like The Sopranos, Sex and the City and Entourage and reruns of shows like The Practice, Magnum, P.I., Law & Order, JAG and The Nanny.
Labeled under 'First on FOX', the channel premiered with critical acclaimed series The West Wing on its launch date May 19, 2008. The political series didn't catch the interest of any other German network before after being considered being "too American". FOX aired all seven seasons with the series finale airing on July 25, 2011. Other shows premiering on FOX have been The Wire, Dirty Sexy Money, Mad Men, The Walking Dead, Da Vinci's Demons, Shameless, Drop Dead Diva, The Big C and American Horror Story.
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