Fox Family

**Fox Family** is an American cable television channel owned by Disney Entertainment, a unit of The Walt Disney Company, through Fox Family Networks. Originally launched on August 1, 2005, the network's programming is aimed mainly at family-friendly. Like its sister channel Fox Zoom, its programming consists of original first-run television series, theatrically-released and home media-exclusive movies and select other third-party programming.

The channel offers an alternate Spanish-language audio feed, either via a separate channel with the English track removed as part of a package of Spanish-language television networks sold by subscription providers or a separate audio track accessible through the SAP option, depending on the provider.

As of January 2019, Fox Family is available to 82.4 million households in the United States.

## History

On October 24, 2001, News Corporation sold Fox Family Worldwide to The Walt Disney Company for $2.9 billion cash plus $2.3 billion in debt assumption, which gave Disney control of the original Fox Family channel (which, owing to its new ownership, was renamed ABC Family, and its parent company renamed ABC Family Worldwide), the Saban Entertainment library, the Fox Kids brand name and its Fox Children's Productions library of shows, including its international networks in Latin America and Europe.

The development of the Fox Family channel began on August 21, 2004, when Fox announced the launch of a new family-oriented channel just for families, after witnessing the success of Fox Zoom.

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## Programming

*Main article: List of programs broadcast by Fox Family*
### Programming blocks

#### Current

* ***FoxVault*** – a late-night block aired classic Fox-produced family movies, TV shows and animated shorts, airing every night from 12 a.m. EST to 6 a.m. EST.
* ***Disney on Fox*** – a block of Disney-produced series produced by Disney Branded Television, including Disney Channel and Disney Television Animation that airs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern Time on Sundays, which resulted from Disney's 2019 acquisition of 21st Century Fox.
* ***Fox Family's Movie Night*** – A block that aired movies every night at 7:00 p.m. EST.
* ***Jetix*** - Launched in 2015, the block airs the channel's popular programs every Saturday at 8 a.m. EST.

#### Yearly

* ***Fox Family's Spooky Halloween*** - This block features Halloween specials, as well as family-oriented films.
* ***Fox Snowy Specials*** – This block features holiday specials and movies.
* ***Fox Family's March Movie Mayhem*** - Launched in March 2019, the block three or two films starting on Fridays and ending on Sunday throughout the month of March.
* ***Fox Family's Thanksgiving Movie Marathon*** - Launched in Thanksgiving of 2014, the block airs five movies back-to-back.
* ***Fox Family's New Year Movie Madness*** - Launched in New Year of 2020, the block airs seven movies back-to-back from December 31 to January 1.

#### Former

* ***4Kids TV*** – A block that aired shows from the Saturday mornings block of the same name.

## Related services

### Other services

 **Fox Family On Demand** | Fox Family On Demand is the channel's video-on-demand service, offering select episodes of Fox Family's original series and certain acquired programs to pay television providers.

## See also

* Fox Zoom
* FoxBoom
* Fox Kids
* Freeform