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37
Our Cable Network Programming
segment experienced strong
viewership growth and expansion
into several new countries in 2008.
With more than 30 networks, we
reached hundreds of millions of
subscribers last year.
Higher licensing fees, reecting the
strength of our broad and popular
programming, also contributed to
the success of this segment.
Fox International Channels
Fox International Channels (FIC)
launched 35 new channels last
year, increasing its total to 120.
FIC garnered almost $1 billion in
revenue last year, much of it from
emerging markets and mature
markets with low, but growing,
cable and satellite penetration and
ad sales market share. FIC enjoys
some of the highest margins in
the international cable channel
industry.
FIC reaches more than 260 million
subscribers in 29 languages in
Europe, Latin America, Asia and
Africa, primarily under the FOX and
National Geographic brands. The
network also produced more than
3,000 hours of drama, comedy,
reality and documentary shows
for its own as well as third-party
channels.
FX
With more than 90 million
subscribers, FX leads in quality,
scripted drama with such hits as
Nip/Tuck, the number one ranked
scripted cable series in the U.S.
among Adults 18-49 for the fth
consecutive year, and award-
winning drama Damages, a legal
thriller starring Glenn Close, which
received the most Golden Globe®
Award nominations of any show on
television and earned Close a win
in 2008.
Cable Network Programming
Fox International Channels > FX > FOX Sports Net > Fox Soccer Channel > Big Ten Network >
SPEED > FUEL TV > National Geographic Channel
With a range of programming that both reects and celebrates the interests and diversity of our many consumers
around the world, News Corporation continues to shape the future of cable network programming.
ENTERTA I N I N G W I T H A PASSION
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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
saw its ratings grow for the third
consecutive year.
FX now boasts one of the strongest
rosters of acquired movies of any
basic cable network through 2011,
including rights to Twentieth
Century Fox hits Live Free or Die
Hard, The Simpsons Movie and
X-Files: I Want to Believe.