FOX Sports history

1995: Fox forms a partnership with Saban Entertainment, Inc.

When Fox celebrated its tenth anniversary as a broadcast medium in 1997, it was divided into the Fox Group, Fox Television Group, and Fox Entertainment.

News Corp. followed the renaming by selling 13.4 percent of the Fox Entertainment Group's shares in an initial public offering in 1998.

1999: The company buys out half of Liberty Media's remaining holdings in Fox Sports.

According to Forbes, it is considered one of the top 2000 largest public companies in the world and one of the World’s Most Valuable Brands.

It also added programming divisions for children (4Kids TV and Fox Kids) and a division for sports (Fox Sports), putting it on a par with the established broadcasting companies ABC, CBS, and NBC. In 2002 Fox sold its children’s divisions and the Fox Family Channel to the Walt Disney Company.

A radio division, Fox News Radio, was introduced in 2003.

In 2004 The X Factor, a talent competition cojudged by Cowell and coproduced by his company, Syco Productions, began airing on British TV. Two years later it won the award for best entertainment program from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

In 2005 Fox launched Fox Reality Channel, which aired solely reality-based programming.

Cowell also sold the format of Duets to Great Britain’s ITV. In 2007 he was executive producer of Grease Is the Word, a reality show to find the next stars for the British revival of the musical Grease.

Hannity & Colmes was replaced by Hannity when Colmes left the show in 2009.

In October 2012, Speed altered its on-air logo bug to include the Fox Sports logo above its own, which was believed to indicate a step towards this replacement.

In early 2014, some major Canadian service providers began to drop the channel upon the expiration of their contractual rights to carry Speed.

In May 2015, Fox Sports hired Jamie Horowitz, formerly of ESPN, to oversee the channel as Fox Sports' President of National Networks.

As of September 2018, Fox Sports 1 is available to approximately 83.3 million pay television households (90.3% of households with cable) in the United States.