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Country | Hong Kong Indonesia Malaysia Singapore |
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Headquarters | Hong Kong |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 480i/576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific (Disney International Operations) |
Sister channels | List
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History | |
Launched | 16 September 2010 |
Closed | 1 October 2021 (Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan) [1] 1 December 2022 (Middle East and North Africa) |
Links | |
Website | Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2021-07-11) |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
MNC Vision (Indonesia) | Channel 15 |
Fox Family Movies was a Southeast Asian pay television channel owned by Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of Disney International Operations. The channel was initially available in Singapore via StarHub TV and Indonesia via Indovision, but it had expanded to Taiwan and Philippines and it broadcast to the rest of Southeast Asia. [2] [3]
Fox Family Movies has first-run contracts for movies distributed by Disney, (20th Century Studios), (Walt Disney Pictures), Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros., StudioCanal, as well as featured movies from other movie distributors including Lionsgate, Summit Entertainment and The Weinstein Company. Unlike Fox Movies and Fox Action Movies this channel is also available in Dual Language for some movies.
The channel is also available in Middle East and North Africa region since 2016 along with Fox Action Movies and FX when Fox Networks Group Middle East signed a deal with Ericsson to provide playout services for the new channels. [4]
The channel ceased its broadcast on October 1, 2021, along with other Disney-owned channels (excluding National Geographic channels and Star Chinese channels), the final movie aired was Annabelle Hooper and the Ghosts of Nantucket. [5] Meanwhile, the Middle East and North Africa feed of the channel continued operating until December 1, 2022, therefore ceasing the channel to exist.
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