Australian-born American media magnate Rupert Murdoch purchased Hong Kong commercial broadcasting company Star TV in 1993 to launch Fox International Channels as the unit for the international expansion of the American Fox TV channel and subsequent multimedia businesses owned at the time by his company News Corporation.

In 1997, Fox International Channels purchased NHNZ, a producer of documentaries, which had a stake in Singapore-based Beach House Pictures.

[4] In January 2004, the FX289 channel for UK and Ireland was launched, later rebranded as FX as it moved to Sky EPG in April 2005.

[6] In early 2006, FIC formed a production company called Fox Toma 1 with Argentine content producer Ernesto Sandler.

[7] In September 2007, FIC purchased a majority share in the international operations of Israeli channel BabyTV with the founders retaining their original business.

Fox Next targets audiences between the ages from 25 to 44 and is programmed with films and TV shows with thematic primetime and weekday blocks.

[15] On March 8, 2008, FIC and Rotana Media Services launched Fox Movies and Fox Series channels in the Middle East market in order to cater to the Arab world and audience to feature American television shows in region.

[16][17] Fox then purchased a stake in Rotana in a joint venture agreed with Disney to carry its content and that of ABC for 4 years.

[21] On August 19, 2009, News Corporation announced that it would reorganize their Asia-Pacific subsidiary Star TV in Hong Kong.

Fox would also establish its Middle East operations, a global online ad network business,.

[17] In May 2010, FIC purchased a stake in Aquavision, a Johannesburg, South Africa production company, to be managed by NHNZ.

[3][25] In June 2010, FIC and Jan Dekker Holdings formed a joint venture to operate 24Kitchen in the Dutch market.

[26] On September 1, 2011, Fox Channels Benelux launched 24Kitchen on UPC in the Netherlands, in partnership with Jan Dekker Holdings.

[31] On January 23, 2012, FIC and RCN Televisión announced that they would launch a new Spanish-language terrestrial television network named MundoFox in the United States as a joint venture.

[33] Fox exited the joint venture in 2015,[34] and the channel was renamed as MundoMax on July 28 that year,[35][36] before it ceased operations on November 30, 2016.

[37][38] In May 2012, Fox International Channels Latin America announced that it would acquire MGM's share in LAPTV,[39] which operated The Film Zone, Cinecanal and Moviecity.

Fox Networks Group would have global-first rights with co-financing options to the joint venture's shows.

Fox International Channels (FIC), which have been operating separately from 21CF's U.S. domestic television businesses, would be abolished and the head of its regional divisions would report to CEO Peter Rice and COO Randy Freer at Fox Networks Group in the United States, instead of outgoing FIC CEO Hernan Lopez, thus absorbing the international television businesses into Fox Networks Group.

[63][64][65][66][67][68][69] On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company formally announced its intention to acquire most of 21st Century Fox assets.

[71] On April 10, 2018, European Commission officials conducted an unannounced search of Fox Networks Group's West London offices, as part of an antitrust inquiry surrounding broadcast rights to sporting events.

[95] Following the Disney-21CF transaction, FX Now and Nat Geo TV transferred to the second incarnation of Walt Disney Television (now Disney General Entertainment Content) while Fox Now was transferred to Fox Corporation and Fox Sports Go (now FanDuel Sports Network app) was sold to Diamond Sports Group, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Allen Media Group.

[96][76] Fox Networks Group Content Distribution was a global distributor of high-quality scripted and unscripted programming and formats.