FXX is an American digital cable and
satellite television channel owned and
operated by the Fox Entertainment Group
subsidiary of 21st Century Fox aimed at
young men in the 1834 age range the
channels programming focuses on original
and acquired comedy series some dramatic
programs and feature films FXX launched
at seven a.m. eastern 6 a.m. central on
sep tember second 2013 replacing Fox
Soccer the channel is best known for
airing the longest continuous marathon
in the history of television which
featured every single episode of The
Simpsons that had already been released
at the time as of februari 2015
approximately seventy seven million two
hundred eighty thousand households
receive FXX history equals development
equals in January 2013 it was reported
by various media outlets that sports
focused channel Fox Soccer would be shut
down and be replaced with the general
entertainment network that would act as
a brother service to FX the decision
appeared to stem from Fox Sports loss of
us television rights to english premier
league soccer matches rights it shared
with ESPN NBC Sports had secured us
rights to the league in October 2012 a
deal that took effect at the start of
the 2013-14 season also likely having an
effect on Fox soccer's future was the
eventual conversion of two other Fox
Sports specialty channels on August 17
2013 when the motor sports oriented
speed became the new general interest
Fox Sports 1 and the extreme sports
heavy fuel TV converted to Fox Sports to
Fox Entertainment Group announced its
plans for FXX on march 28 2013 for a
planned launch on sep tember second 2013
intending for FXX to be available in
approx 74 million American homes in year
one in the months leading up to the
launch Fox was generally coy about
definitively confirming where FXX would
be placed on cable satellite channel
lineups though Fox officials had
indicated off the record that the plan
was to indeed replace
fox soccer with the new network fox
soccer's conversion to FXX took place on
the morning of September second 2013
leading out of a final airing of Fox
soccer's being Liverpool with an hour
block of paid programming at 6am
followed by the proper launch an hour
later at seven a.m. eastern time equals
launch equals the launch clip had FC
barcelona's lionel messi about to score
a goal broken up by frank reynolds of
it's always sunny in philadelphia coming
through a leather couch being birthed in
the nude suggesting the birthing of FXX
this led into the pilot episode of Parks
and Recreation the start of an all-day
marathon airing of the series as a
result of the rebranding Fox soccer's
remaining event rights including
CONCACAF and UEFA matches have moved to
Fox Sports 1 Fox Sports 2 or in some
cases fox soccer plus although the
channel is intended by Fox to be part of
the basic cable line up on many
providers the channel was previously
placed in a specialty sports package a
holdover from the channels previous
iteration as Fox Soccer although most
providers have since moved FXX into more
basic slots on the line up a Canadian
version of FXX launched on april first
2014 equals 2014 euro present equals in
2013 FXX acquired broadcast syndication
rights to the long-running Fox series
The Simpsons for a reported 750 million
dollars a deal which broke the record
for being the biggest off Network deal
in television history original contracts
had previously stated that syndication
rights for the series would not be sold
to cable until the series conclusion
however the series has been syndicated
to several local broadcast stations
throughout the United States since 1993
the series premiered on august
twenty-first 2014 starting a 12 day
marathon which featured the first 552
episodes aired chronologically including
the simpsons movie which FX networks had
already owned the rights to air the
marathon was the longest continuous
marathon in the history of television
the first day of the marathon was the
highest-rated broadcast day in the
history of the network so far the
ratings more than tripled that those of
regular primetime programming for FXX
ratings during the first six nights of
the marathon grew night after night with
the network ranking within the top five
networks in basic cable each night in
2015 FXX introduced a late-night block
of animated programming featuring reruns
of series that originally premiered on
Fox's previous late-night animation
block animation domination high-def new
episodes of Lucas brothers moving
company the new original series stone
Quackers and later joined by major lazer
an animated series based on the diplo
fronted electronic music group of the
same name programming equals current
scripted it's always sunny in
philadelphia the league man seeking
woman you're the worst animated stone
Quackers Lucas brothers moving company
high school USA Major Lazer axe cop
acquired Archer in living color mad
about you Parks and Recreation raising
hope the simpsons equals future equals
untitled tracy morgan comedy kassius and
clay equals past scripted totally biased
with W kamau Bell legit Wilfred acquired
Ali G resurrection Arrested Development
freaks and geeks the high Lee's how i
met your mother rescue me Spin City
Sports Night references external links
wwx networks com FXX on twitter