Foxnet
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| Launched | June 6, 1991 |
| Closed | September 12, 2006 |
| Network | Fox |
| Owned by |
Fox Entertainment Group (News Corporation) |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Nationwide (available mainly in smaller television markets) |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
Foxnet is a defunct American cable television network that was owned by the Fox Entertainment Group division of News Corporation. Serving as a national feed of the Fox Broadcasting Company (known simply as Fox), the service was intended for areas ranked below the top 100 television markets in the United States (as ranked by Nielsen Media Research) that were not served by an existing Fox-affiliated station.
In addition to carrying Fox's prime time and sports programming, as well as its children's programming blocks, Foxnet also carried syndicated and brokered programs outside of network programming time periods. Fox handled programming, advertising and promotional services for Foxnet at its corporate headquarters on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles.
At the time of the service's launch in 1991, Fox's programming reached only 91.75% of all U.S. households with at least one television set. This was because, around the time of the network's launch in October 1986, most large and mid-sized markets were served by at least four commercial over-the-air television stations – three that were affiliated with one of the three established broadcast networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, and one that usually operated as an independent station. Virtually all of the stations in Fox that gathered for its charter affiliate body consisted of independent stations that had no existing network partner (in most cases, aligning with the highest-rated independent within the market).
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