Product type | Television networks |
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Produced by | Rupert Murdoch |
Country | United States |
Introduced | 1995 |
Discontinued | 15 February 2024 |
Markets | Africa Asia Argentina Brazil Canada Latin America Middle East Mexico Netherlands Israel Italy Turkey South Korea Japan |
Previous owners |
Fox Sports International (FSI) was an international sportscasting and production division of Fox Networks Group, a division of 21st Century Fox.
In the following years, after Disney acquired 21st Century Fox, it began closing and selling various channels from FSI to third party owners due its ownership of ESPN, prior the acquisition of 21st Century Fox in 2019. [1] [2]
Star Movies is an Asian-based pay television channel owned by Disney Entertainment. Star Movies was originally launched in 1994 as a single channel broadcast across Asia, but it was regionalized into different localized channels since then. Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific have since rebranded some of the network's international feeds in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia as Fox Movies, but retains the Star Movies brand in Middle East & South Asia.
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Fox Sports International was a premium television service in the Netherlands, owned by Eredivisie Media & Marketing CV and launched on 17 August 2013.
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