FX (international)

FX

Logo used in Canada and Latin America since 2013
Logo used in Greece, Poland, Baltics and CIS since 2023 and 2024
Product type	Television networks
Owner	The Walt Disney Company
Produced by	Rupert Murdoch
Country	United States
Introduced	January 12, 2004
Markets	Asia Australia Baltics and CIS Canada Greece India Italy Latin America Middle East Poland Portugal South Africa UK and Ireland Turkey
Previous owners	News Corporation 21st Century Fox

FX is an international television channel brand stemming from the eponymous American standard or premium cable television channel and is owned by FX Networks, a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company.

Current channels

Baltics and CIS

• FX (previously Fox Crime and Fox) is a Russian-language television channel that launched on March 5, 2008. The channel was closed on October 1, 2022, for Russia ^[1] & Belarus, ^[2] and was replaced by Kineko in Russia, but it's still active in the CIS & Baltic regions. Cable operators in Estonia have localized version of the channel with advertising. The channel has rebranded as FX on 24 January 2024. ^[3]

Canada

On August 6, 2011, Rogers Sports & Media entered into a licensing agreement with FX Networks to launch FX Canada as a pay television channel. ^[4] The network, which launched on November 1, 2011, features a mix of FX original series; acquired American movies and series; and original Canadian programming and sporting events (as required by the Canadian content rules imposed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission). FX Canada's broadcast license requires that 15% of its programming consist of Canadian content in its first year, 20% in its second year and 25% by its third year.

On May 18, 2018, Remstar Media Group entered into a separate licensing agreement to carry a French language FX-branded programming block on the channel Max.

• FX

Greece

• FX (formerly as Fox) is a Greek channel launched on November 30, 2009. On October 1, 2012, the channel was replaced by Fox. On March 15, 2023, Fox was reverted its name into and replaced again by FX, along with Fox Life becoming FX Life.

Latin America

• FX Networks Latin America includes FX.

Poland

• On June 29, 2023, it was announced that the Polish locales of Fox and Fox Comedy would be replaced on November 7, 2023, with Polish locales of FX and FX Comedy. ^[5]

Turkey

• FX was launched in Turkey on April 14, 2008, on the D-Smart digital platform. It is also available on the Teledünya and Tivibu digital platforms.

Other FX-branded channels

Baltics and CIS

• FX Life

Canada

• FXX

Greece

• FX Life

Poland

• FX Comedy

Former channels

Asia

In 2008, Fox Networks Group Asia and Star TV (through a distribution agreement) partnered to launch FX Asia. The channel is divided into four services: an international channel distributed throughout much of the continent and three national channels serving South Korea, Philippines and Japan. The channel was shut down on October 1, 2021, with most of its content shifting to the Star content hub on Disney+ (for Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and Disney+ Hotstar (for Southeast Asia region outside Singapore and Philippines).

• FX Asia
• FX Philippines

Australia

• FX was an Australian channel launched on February 26, 2012. On February 28, 2018, FX ceased broadcasting on Foxtel, and all of its programs moved to Fox Showcase.

India

• FX was an Indian channel operated from 2010 ^[6] to 2017. ^[7]

Italy

• FX was an Italian channel launched on May 22, 2006. Due to the lowest ratings, the channel was closed on July 1, 2011.

Latin America

• FX Networks Latin America included FXM, which was shut down on April 1, 2022. ^[8]

Brazil

• FX was a Brazilian channel launched on May 1, 2005. The channel was closed on March 1, 2025 due to high operational costs in the respective country, declining pay-TV ratings in Brazil and the Brazilian pay-TV crisis.

Middle East

• FX was launched in the Middle East as a free-to-air channel along with the rest of the Fox-branded channels (which include National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, STAR Movies, Fox Movies, Fox Rewayat, Fox Family Movies, Fox Action Movies, STAR World, FOX, FX, Fox Life, Fox Crime, Channel V International and Baby TV), ^[9] the channels later became encrypted instead of free, as a part of beIN network. The channel closed on December 1, 2022, along with Fox Family Movies and Fox Crime.

Portugal

• FX was a Portuguese channel launched in 2005. In November 2015, the channel was rebranded as Fox Comedy.

South Africa

• FX was a South African pay-TV satellite channel, part of the StarSat offering on May 1, 2010. ^[10] It was shut down on October 3, 2016, along with Fox Crime, which closed down on September 30, 2016, to be replaced by Fox Life ^[11]

UK and Ireland

• FX was a British and Irish channel launched on January 12, 2004. In 2013 the channel was rebranded as Fox. It later closed down on July 1, 2021, with most of its content moving to the Star content hub on Disney+.

See also

• Star Channel (international)
• FX (TV channel)
• FX Life
• Fox (international)
• Fox Crime
• Fox Comedy
• Fox Life
• Fox Movies
• Fox Sports International
• Fox Networks Group
• Foxtel

References

1. "НТВ-ПЛЮС: Телеканалы FOX, FOX Life, National Geographic и Nat Geo Wild прекращают вещание на территории России". TVnews.by | Новости ТВ, IT и коммуникаций (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-04-02.
2. "Телеканалы National Geographic и FOX прекращают вещание в Беларуси". TVnews.by | Новости ТВ, IT и коммуникаций (in Russian). 2022-09-30. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
3. "Pange tähele! Telekanalid FOX ja FOX LIFE saavad uued nimed". Kroonika (in Estonian). Retrieved 2023-11-23.
4. Aleysha Haniff (August 6, 2011). "FX Canada to launch in November". Toronto Star.
5. "W listopadzie Fox zmieni w Polsce nazwę na FX. Inaczej też Fox Comedy" [In November, Fox will change its name to FX in Poland. Including Fox Comedy]. Press.pl (in Polish). 2023-06-29. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
6. Bureau, Adgully (2010-07-02). "Fox International launches 7 channels in India". www.adgully.com. Retrieved 2023-12-11.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
7. "Star TV India to shut down three channels". www.bizasialive.com. 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
8. "Disney cesará transmisiones de los canales Disney XD, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Kids, FX Movies y Star Life en Latinoamérica" [Disney will cease transmissions of Disney XD, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Kids, FX Movies and Star Life channels in Latin America]. TVLaint (in Spanish). Nopales. January 10, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
9. "Fox Networks Group Middle East". foxarabia.tv. Archived from the original on 8 October 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
10. "ODM coming in May with 55 TV channels". News.google.co.za. Retrieved on July 28, 2011.
11. "TV with Thinus: TOLDJA! Another FOX channel is suddenly chopped and changed as FOX Crime flips to FOX Life at short notice; changes on DSTV with no word about StarSat". September 13, 2016.