Fox Corporation (FOX) operates as a news, sports and entertainment company.
The company produces and delivers compelling news, sports and entertainment content through its iconic brands, including FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. The company differentiates itself in a crowded media and entertainment marketplace through its simple structure, the leadership positions of its brands and premium programming that focus on live and 'appointme...
Fox Corporation (FOX) operates as a news, sports and entertainment company.
The company produces and delivers compelling news, sports and entertainment content through its iconic brands, including FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. The company differentiates itself in a crowded media and entertainment marketplace through its simple structure, the leadership positions of its brands and premium programming that focus on live and 'appointment-based' content, a significant presence in major markets, and broad distribution of its content across traditional and digital platforms.
The FOX Studio Lot, located in Los Angeles, California, provides television and film production services along with office space, studio operation services and includes all operations of the facility.
Segments
The company operates through two segments, Cable Network Programming and Television.
Cable Network Programming, which produces and licenses news and sports content distributed through traditional cable television systems, direct broadcast satellite operators and telecommunication companies (traditional MVPDs), virtual multi-channel video programming distributors (virtual MVPDs) and other digital platforms, primarily in the U.S.
Television, which produces, acquires, markets and distributes programming through the FOX broadcast network, advertising supported video-on-demand (AVOD) service Tubi, 29 full power broadcast television stations, including 11 duopolies, and other digital platforms, primarily in the U.S. Eighteen of the broadcast television stations are affiliated with the FOX Network, 10 are affiliated with MyNetworkTV and one is an independent station. The segment also includes various production companies that produce content for the company and third parties.
Strategy
The company's strategies are to maintain leading positions in live news, live sports and quality entertainment; increase revenue growth through the continued delivery of high quality, premium and valuable content; and expand its digital distribution offerings and direct engagement with consumers, increasing complementary sources of revenues.
Cable Network Programming segment
The Cable Network Programming segment produces and licenses news, business news and sports content for distribution through traditional and virtual MVPDs and other digital platforms, primarily in the U.S. The businesses in this segment include FOX News Media (which includes FOX News and FOX Business) and the company's primary cable sports programming networks FS1, FS2, the Big Ten Network and FOX Deportes.
FOX News Media
FOX News Media includes the FOX News and FOX Business networks and their related properties. For over 20 consecutive years, FOX News has been the top-rated national cable news channel in Monday to Friday primetime viewing. FOX News also finished the fiscal year as the #1 cable network in Monday to Friday primetime and total day viewing among total viewers for the eighth consecutive year. FOX Business is a business news national cable channel and was the #1 business network in business day among total viewers during the year ended June 30, 2024 (fiscal 2024). FOX News also produces a weekend political commentary show, FOX News Sunday, for broadcast on the FOX Television Stations and stations affiliated with the FOX Network throughout the U.S. FOX News also produces FOX News Audio, which licenses news updates, podcasts, and long-form programs to local radio stations and to mobile, Internet and satellite radio providers.
FS1
FS1 is a multi-sport national network that features live events, including regular season and post-season MLB games, NASCAR, college football, college basketball, the FIFA Men's and Women's World Cup, Major League Soccer (MLS), the UFL, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) European Championship, UEFA Nations League, Concacaf and CONMEBOL soccer and horse racing. In addition to live events, FS1 offers daily studio shows featuring key talent, including Colin Cowherd, Nick Wright and Emmanuel Acho.
FS2
FS2 is a multi-sport national network that features live events, including NASCAR, collegiate sports, horse racing, rugby, soccer and motor sports.
FOX Sports Racing
FOX Sports Racing is a 24-hour video programming service consisting of motor sports programming, including National Hot Rod Association, motorcycle racing and horse racing. FOX Sports Racing is distributed to subscribers in Canada and the Caribbean.
FOX Soccer Plus
FOX Soccer Plus is a premium video programming network that showcases exclusive live soccer and rugby competitions, including events from FIFA, UEFA, Concacaf, CONMEBOL, Saudi Pro League, Super Rugby League, Australian Football League and the National Rugby League.
FOX Deportes
FOX Deportes is a Spanish-language sports programming service distributed in the U.S. FOX Deportes features coverage of a variety of sports events, including premier soccer (such as matches from MLS and Liga MX), the NFL NFC Championship and the Super Bowl, MLB (including regular season games, the National League Championship Series in alternating years and the All-Star and World Series games), NASCAR Cup Series, college football and UFL. In addition to live events, FOX Deportes also features multi-sport news and highlight shows and daily studio programming. FOX Deportes is available to approximately 11.8 million cable and satellite households in the U.S., of which approximately 2.5 million are Hispanic.
The Big Ten Network
The Big Ten Network is a 24-hour national video programming service dedicated to the collegiate Big Ten Conference and Big Ten athletics, academics and related programming. The Big Ten Network televises live collegiate events, including football games, regular-season and post-season men's and women's basketball games, and men's and women's Olympic events (including wrestling, volleyball and ice hockey), as well as a variety of studio shows and original programming. The Big Ten Network also owns and operates B1G+ (formerly branded BTN+), a subscription video streaming service that features live streams of non-televised sporting events, replays of televised and streamed events, and a large collection of classic games and original programming. The company owns approximately 61% of the Big Ten Network.
Digital Distribution
The company's cable network programming is also distributed through FOX-branded websites, apps, podcasts and social media accounts and licensed for distribution through MVPDs' websites and apps. The company's websites and apps provide live and/or on-demand streaming of network-related programming primarily on an authenticated basis to allow video subscribers of the company's participating distribution partners to view company content via the Internet. These websites and apps include FOXNews.com, FOXBusiness.com, FOXWeather.com, FOXSports.com, FOXDeportes.com and OutKick.com, and the FOX News, FOX Business, FOX Weather, FOX Sports and FOX Deportes mobile apps. FOX News Media also operates direct-to-consumer services FOX Nation, an SVOD service that offers U.S. consumers a variety of content (including original programming), and FOX Weather, a FAST service that offers local, regional and national weather reporting in addition to live programming. The Big Ten Network distributes live-streaming and video-on-demand programming through the B1G+ subscription video streaming service. The company also distributes non-authenticated live-streaming and video-on-demand content, podcasts, as well as static visual content such as photography, artwork and graphical design across FOX and Big Ten Network branded social media and third-party video and audio platforms.
Outkick Media
The company owns Outkick Media, a digital media company focused on the intersection of sports, news and entertainment.
Competition
FOX News Media: FOX News' primary competition comes from the broadcast networks' national news divisions and cable news networks, such as CNN and MSNBC. FOX Business' primary competition comes from the cable networks CNBC and Bloomberg Television. FOX News and FOX Business also compete for viewers and advertisers within a broad spectrum of television networks, including other non-news cable networks, free-to-air broadcast television networks and direct-to-consumer streaming and on-demand platforms and services. FOX News and FOX Business also face competition online from CNN.com, NBCNews.com, NYTimes.com, CNBC.com, Bloomberg.com, Yahoo.com and The Wall Street Journal Online, among others.
FOX Sports: On a national level, the primary competitors to FS1, FS2, and the Big Ten Network are ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS, USA Network, CBS Sports Network; league-owned networks, such as NFL Network, NHL Network, NBA TV and MLB Network; collegiate conference-specific networks, such as the SEC Network and ACC Network; and direct-to-consumer streaming services such as ESPN+, Peacock, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Max, FuboTV and Roku. In regional markets, the Big Ten Network competes with regional sports networks, local broadcast television stations and other sports programming providers and distributors.
Television segment
The Television segment produces, acquires, markets and distributes programming through the FOX broadcast network, the Tubi AVOD service, broadcast television stations and other digital platforms, primarily in the U.S. The segment also includes various production companies that produce content for the Company and third parties.
FOX Television Stations
FOX Television Stations owns and operates 29 full power broadcast television stations, which deliver broadcast network content, local news and syndicated programming to viewers in 18 local markets. These include stations located in 14 of the top 15 largest DMAs and two stations (referred to as duopolies) in each of 11 DMAs, including the three largest designated market areas (DMAs) (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago). In two of the duopoly markets, FOX Television Stations is internally channel sharing whereby both of its stations in the market operate using a single 6 MHz channel. Of the 29 full power broadcast television stations, 18 stations are affiliated with the FOX Network. These stations leverage viewer, distributor and advertiser demand for the FOX Network's national content. In addition, the FOX Network's strategy to deliver fewer hours of national content than other major broadcasters benefits stations affiliated with the FOX Network, which can utilize the flexibility in scheduling to offer expanded local news and other programming that viewers covet. Our 29 stations collectively produce over 1,200 hours of local news coverage every week. In addition, FOX Television Stations owns and operates 10 stations broadcasting programming from MyNetworkTV.
FOX Television Stations also operates a portfolio of digital businesses. These include the FLX (or FOX Local Extension) digital advertising platform and digital distribution businesses, including the LiveNOW from FOX, FOX Locals and FOX Soul FAST services described below under the heading 'Digital Distribution.'
The FOX Network
The FOX Network is a premier national television broadcast network, renowned for disrupting legacy broadcasters with powerful sports programming and appealing primetime entertainment. The FOX Network regularly delivers 15 hours of weekly primetime programming to 209 local market affiliates, including 18 stations owned and operated by the company, covering virtually every U.S. market, according to Nielsen. The FOX Network primetime lineup is intended to appeal primarily to the 18 to 49 year old audience, the demographic group that advertisers seek to reach most often, with particular success in the 18 to 34 year old audience. The FOX Network has ranked among the top two networks in the 18 to 34 year old audience for the past 29 broadcast seasons. During the 2023-2024 broadcast season, the FOX Network ranked #2 in the 18 to 49 and 18 to 34 year old audiences and #1 in the male 18 to 49 and 18 to 34 year old audiences (based on Nielsen's live+7 ratings). The median age of the FOX Network viewer is 58 years, as compared to 65 years for ABC, 66 years for CBS and 65 years for NBC.
FOX Sports
A significant component of FOX Network programming consists of sports programming, with the FOX Network providing to its affiliates during the 2023-2024 broadcast season live coverage of the NFL, including the premier NFC rights package and America's Game of the Week (the #1 show on television). The FOX Network also provides live coverage of MLB (including the post-season and the World Series), college football and basketball, the NASCAR Cup Series (including the Daytona 500), MLS and the UFL. In certain years, FOX Sports broadcasts the Super Bowl, the FIFA Men's and Women's World Cup, the Copa America tournament and the UEFA European Championship. FOX Sports entered into an expanded 11-year media rights agreement with the NFL in fiscal 2021 that extended FOX Sports' coverage of NFL games and expanded FOX's digital rights to enable future direct-to-consumer opportunities as well as NFL-related programming on Tubi.
FOX Entertainment
FOX Entertainment delivers high-quality scripted, unscripted, animated and live event content. FOX Entertainment primetime programming during the 2023-2024 broadcast season featured such scripted series as The Cleaning Lady and Alert: Missing Persons Unit, along with the FOX Entertainment-owned comedy Animal Control; animated series, including The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers, Family Guy and The Great North; and unscripted series, such as Next Level Chef and Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars from Studio Ramsay Global (FOX's co-owned production company with Gordon Ramsay), The Masked Singer, I Can See Your Voice, LEGO Masters, Special Forces: World's Toughest Test, Farmer Wants a Wife and investigative report specials from FOX-owned TMZ. During the 2023- 2024 broadcast season, FOX Entertainment featured the season's #1 new entertainment series with the FOX-owned animated comedy Krapopolis; launched the #1 game show with The Floor; once again presented television's top cooking competition series with Gordon Ramsay's Next Level Chef, Hell's Kitchen, MasterChef Junior and Kitchen Nightmares; and had four of the top comedies on television with Krapopolis, The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers and Family Guy.
The FOX Network obtains national sports programming through license agreements with professional or collegiate sports leagues or organizations, including long-term agreements with the NFL, MLB, college football and basketball conferences, NASCAR, FIFA, UEFA, Concacaf and CONMEBOL. Entertainment programming is obtained from major television studios, including 20th Television (formerly known as Twentieth Century Fox Television and which is owned by Disney), Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros. Television, and independent television production companies pursuant to license agreements. The terms of these agreements generally provide the FOX Network with the right to acquire broadcast rights to a television series for a minimum of four seasons. Entertainment programming is also provided by the company's in-house production companies.
The FOX Network provides programming to affiliated stations and the right to broadcast network television programming on the affiliated stations in accordance with agreements of varying durations. Such agreements typically run three or more years and have staggered expiration dates. These affiliation agreements require affiliated stations to carry the FOX Network programming in all time periods in which the FOX Network programming is offered to those affiliated stations, subject to certain exceptions stated in the affiliation agreements.
FOX Entertainment Studios
Through its FOX Entertainment studios business, the company produces entertainment programming for its own traditional and digital entertainment platforms, as well as for third parties. MarVista Entertainment is a global entertainment studio that produces and distributes movies and other content for Tubi and third-party networks and digital platforms. TMZ produces daily syndicated magazine programs, broadcast and other television specials, and other content for distribution on traditional and digital platforms, including FOX Television Stations, Tubi, FOX Nation and other digital platforms. The Company has also formed a co-owned production company with Gordon Ramsay called Studio Ramsay Global that develops, produces and distributes culinary and lifestyle programming such as Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars and Next Level Chef for FOX, Kitchen Commando for Tubi and other programs for global markets. A full-service production studio, Fox Alternative Entertainment develops and produces unscripted and alternative programming primarily for the FOX Network, including The Masked Singer, I Can See Your Voice and Name That Tune. Animation production company Bento Box Entertainment produces programming for cable and broadcast networks (including programming, such as Krapopolis, Bob's Burgers and The Great North that air on the FOX Network) and digital platforms.
Tubi
Tubi is a leading AVOD service that is available on multiple digital platforms in the United States and select international regions. The business is part of the Tubi Media Group division formed in fiscal 2023 to house the company's digital platform services. Tubi offers a content library of over 260,000 movies and television episodes from over 400 content partners, including every major Hollywood studio, and a growing number of new original titles. In fiscal 2024, Tubi expanded its content library through the premiere of over 140 new original titles. Tubi also features key FOX content, such as The Masked Singer and Next Level Chef, as well as live local and national news content and sports programming. In addition to its on-demand library, Tubi offers over 280 sports, entertainment and local news linear streaming channels. These include channels featuring FOX Entertainment's The Masked Singer, TMZ and Studio Ramsay Global's Gordon Ramsay and feeds from over 100 local television stations (including FOX's owned and operated stations), covering 77 DMAs and 23 of the top 25 markets. As of June 2024, Tubi is available on 32 digital platforms, including connected television devices, and online at www.tubitv.com. In fiscal 2024, the service generated approximately 9.7 billion hours of total view time (the total number of hours watched) and finished the fiscal year with approximately 2.0% of all television viewing according to Nielsen's The Gauge. Tubi enables the company's advertising partners to access a substantial, incremental digital audience. Tubi's viewers are young, diverse and highly engaged, and the majority of its audience is classified as 'cord-cutters' or 'cord-nevers.'
FOX Entertainment Global
FOX Entertainment Global is FOX's wholly-owned sales and distribution business. FOX Entertainment Global engages in domestic and international sales and licenses of scripted and unscripted series and other programs owned or controlled by various FOX entities, as well as content owned by third parties that contract with Fox Entertainment Global for distribution.
Digital Distribution
The company's Television segment also distributes programming through FOX-branded websites, apps, podcasts and social media accounts and licenses programming for distribution through MVPDs' websites and apps. The company's websites and apps include FOX.com, FOXSports.com, TMZ.com, the FOX Sports app and the TMZ app and provide live and/or on-demand streaming of FOX Network shows and programming from broadcast stations affiliated with the FOX Network. Other digital properties offering Television segment programming and other content include Tubi and the TMZ FAST service. FOX Television Stations distributes content across websites and mobile apps associated with the stations, Tubi, a range of third-party platforms and FOX Television Station's FAST services. These services include LiveNOW from FOX, which offers live news coverage; FOX Soul, a service dedicated to the African American viewer that features original and syndicated programming; and FOX Locals, a group of FAST services that offer live and recorded content from over 15 FOX-owned and operated local television stations. The company's FAST services are distributed across multiple devices and platforms, including traditional and virtual MVPDs, Tubi, connected TV device platforms and other digital platforms.
MyNetworkTV
The programming distribution service, Master Distribution Service, Inc. (branded as MyNetworkTV), distributes two hours per night, Monday through Friday, of off-network programming from syndicators to its over 185 licensee stations, including 10 stations owned and operated by the company, and is available to approximately 95% of U.S. households as of June 30, 2024.
Other Operating segments
FOX Studio Lot
FOX owns the FOX Studio Lot in Los Angeles, California. The historic lot is located on over 50 acres of land and has over 1.85 million square feet of space for both administration and production and post-production services available to service a wide array of industry clients, including 15 sound stages, two broadcast studios, theaters and screening rooms, editing rooms and other television and film production facilities. The FOX Studio Lot provides two primary revenue streams - the lease of a portion of the office space to Disney and other third parties and the operation of studio facilities for third-party productions, which until 2026 will predominantly be Disney productions.
Credible
The company holds 66% of the equity in Credible Labs Inc. (Credible), which operates consumer finance and insurance marketplaces in the U.S. Credible's offerings provide consumers personalized product and rate options for a range of financial products, including student loans, personal loans, mortgages and insurance policies from multiple consumer lending and insurance providers. Credible is part of the Tubi Media Group division.
Investments
Flutter Entertainment plc (Flutter)
The company holds an equity interest in Flutter, an online sports betting and gaming company with operations in the U.S. and internationally. The company owns approximately 4.3 million ordinary shares, which represents approximately 2.4% of Flutter as of June 30, 2024. In addition, FOX Sports holds a 10-year call option expiring in December 2030 to acquire an 18.6% equity interest in Flutter's majority-owned subsidiary, FanDuel Group (FanDuel), the exercise of which is subject to certain conditions and applicable gambling regulatory approvals. As of June 30, 2024, the option exercise price was approximately $4.3 billion. FOX has no obligation to commit capital towards this opportunity unless and until it exercises the option. In addition, Flutter cannot pursue an initial public offering for FanDuel without FOX's consent or approval from the arbitrator.
United Football League (UFL)
Launched in January 2024, the UFL is a professional spring football league that consists of eight teams playing a 40-game regular season schedule in addition to two playoff games and a championship game. FOX Sports and Disney/ESPN are the domestic distribution partners of the UFL games under multi-year rights agreements. As of June 30, 2024, the company owned approximately 42% of the UFL.
Venu Sports
In February 2024, FOX announced that it would enter into a joint venture with ESPN, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, and Warner Bros. Discovery to form a digital distribution platform focused on sports. Each company is expected to own one-third of the joint venture, have equal board representation and license their sports content to the joint venture on a non-exclusive basis. The Venu Sports subscription-based streaming service is expected to launch in the fall of 2024.
Government Regulations
Credible Labs Inc. is subject to a variety of federal and state laws and regulations. These include the laws and regulations governing the collection, use and transfer of consumer information described above and the following:
The Truth-in-Lending Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Housing Act, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, or RESPA, and similar state laws, and federal and state unfair and deceptive acts and practices, or UDAAP, laws and regulations, which place restrictions on the manner in which consumer loans and insurance products are marketed and originated and the amount and nature of fees that may be charged or paid to Credible by lenders, insurance carriers and real estate professionals.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which, among other things, imposes requirements related to mortgage disclosures.
Federal and state licensing laws, such as the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008, or SAFE Act, which establishes minimum standards for the licensing and regulation of mortgage loan originators, and state insurance licensing laws.
History
Fox Corporation was incorporated in 2018 under the laws of the state of Delaware.
