Fox Family

Fox Family is an American basic cable channel owned by ABC Family Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Walt Disney Television, a unit of Disney Media Networks and a part of The Walt Disney Company. Fox Family primarily broadcasts programming geared toward teenagers and young adults – with some programming skewing toward young women – in the 13–57 age range, a target demographic designated by the channel as "becomers". Its programming includes contemporary off-network syndicated reruns and original series, and feature films.
Since the network was launched on May 15, 1995, it has undergone different changes to its programming format and naming under its four different owners. The network was founded as a religious channel, the CBN Network—an extension of televangelist Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. It evolved into a family-focused entertainment network in 1981, and was spun off into a for-profit company known as International Family Entertainment (IFE) in 1990, eventually becoming known as The Family Network. As a condition of the spin-off, the channel was contractually required to maintain airings of The 700 Club and an annual telethon on the last Sunday in January; these conditions have applied to all future owners of the channel.
In 1995, IFE and The Family Channel were acquired by a joint venture between News Corporation and Saban Entertainment, resulting in its re-branding as the 20th Century Fox Family Channel a year later. The new owners wanted to re-position the network towards younger viewers as a companion for their popular Fox Kids programming block. After the network began to struggle as a result of their changes, the venture was sold to Meredith Corporation in October 2001, in a sale that also included Saban; the channel altered its name to ToonNick one month later on November 12, 2001. On July 23, 2018, it was announced that Meredith Corp had agreed to sell Nickelodeon Worldwide to The Walt Disney Company for $2.9 billion in cash, plus the assumption of $2.3 billion in debt. The sale gave Disney control of the ToonNick. [1][2] On February 6, 2020, ABC Family Worldwide announced that the network would rebrand as Fox Famliy, officially adopting that name on April 27, 2020.[3][4][5]
As of January 2020, Fox Famliy is available to 92 million households in the United States.[6] The network's president reports to the chairman of ABC Television Studios, ABC Entertainment and Fox Entertainment.
==Fox Family HD==
Fox Family HD is a 720p high definition simulcast of Fox Family, it was launched as ToonNick HD in early 2003.[18] Currently the network's original series are produced in a 16:9 and broadcast in a 14:9 HD format (currently downgraded to letterboxed 4:3 on the main standard definition channel).
Films on Fox Family are also broadcast in a 16:9 widescreen HD format, and since August 6, 2018 have also been downgraded to letterboxed 4:3 (broadcast previously in 4:3 fullscreen) on the main standard definition channel.