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Fox Networks Group

Fox Networks Group (FNG) was 21st Century Fox's television networks division, led by Peter Rice, spanning FOX, FX, Fox Sports, National Geographic and 350-plus international channels reaching 1.8 billion viewers in 45 languages until Disney acquired its international assets in 2019.

Fox News

Fox News (FOX News Channel), the American conservative cable news channel launched October 7, 1996 by Roger Ailes for Rupert Murdoch; the most watched US news channel for over 20 years, a Fox Corporation property, settled Dominion's defamation suit for $787.5 million.

Fox News controversies

Fox News controversies: scandals surrounding the conservative cable channel founded by Rupert Murdoch in 1996, covering the 2016 Ailes and O'Reilly harassment scandals, the $787 million Dominion settlement, the pending $2.7 billion Smartmatic suit, and Trump feuds.

Fox NFL Sunday

Fox NFL Sunday is Fox's one-hour NFL pregame studio show, debuting 1994 after Fox's $1.58 billion NFC rights win. Hosts Curt Menefee and Terry Bradshaw with Howie Long, Michael Strahan, Rob Gronkowski, and Jay Glazer; 16 Emmys.

Fox on the Run (Sweet song)

"Fox on the Run" is a 1975 glam rock single by British band Sweet, written and produced by Connolly, Priest, Scott, and Tucker; their first self-written A-side, it hit No. 2 in the UK and No. 5 in the US.

Fox One

Fox One is an American streaming service from Fox Corporation, launched in August 2025, carrying live FOX News, FOX Sports, and the FOX Network for $19.99 a month.

Fox sisters

The Fox sisters, Margaretta, Catherine, and their elder sister Leah, were mediums whose 1848 reports of spirit rappings at a farmhouse in Hydesville, New York, began modern Spiritualism.

Fox spirit

The fox spirit, known in China as huli jing (狐狸精), is a shapeshifting fox of East Asian folklore, also called kitsune in Japan and kumiho in Korea.

Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Red-Moon Pact (狐妖小红娘月红篇)

Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Red-Moon Pact (狐妖小红娘月红篇), 2024 iQIYI xianxia drama, first live-action adaptation of Tuo Xiaoxin's manhua; 36 episodes starring Yang Mi and Gong Jun; high premiere heat but about 5.0 Douban rating.

Fox Sports (United States)

Fox Sports is Fox Corporation's U.S. sports arm: FOX network sports, FS1/FS2, Big Ten Network, FOX Deportes. Rooted in 1996's Fox Sports Net; RSNs lost in the 2019 21st Century Fox split; streaming via FOX One ($19.99/month).

Fox Sports 1

Fox Sports 1 (FS1) is Fox Corporation's national 24-hour multi-sport cable network, launched August 17, 2013 by rebranding Speed to rival ESPN, carrying MLB, NASCAR, college sports, FIFA World Cup and debate studio shows.

Fox Sports Networks

Fox Sports Networks (FSN), also Fox Sports Net, was Fox's U.S. group of regional sports networks launched in 1996 from the Prime Sports chain under News Corp., Liberty Media and TCI. Sold to Sinclair in 2019 and rebranded Bally Sports in 2021; distinct from national FS1/FS2.

Fox squirrel

Fox squirrel (Sciurus niger), also eastern fox squirrel or Bryant's fox squirrel: largest North American tree squirrel, 600-1,300 g, rusty-orange belly, eastern/central US into Mexico, introduced westward; open pine-oak woods, scatter-hoards nuts, least concern.

Fox Squirrel Solar

Fox Squirrel Solar is a 577 MW utility-scale solar power plant in Madison County, Ohio, the largest in Ohio, owned by EDF Renewables and Enbridge.

Fox Television Stations

Fox Television Stations is Fox Corporation's owned-and-operated broadcast group: 29 full-power U.S. stations, 18 FOX and 11 MyNetworkTV affiliates, duopolies in 11 DMAs, over 1,500 weekly local news hours, LiveNOW from FOX, distinct from Fox News Channel.

Fox Terrier

Fox Terrier: British terrier breed from late-18th-century foxhunts, with Smooth and Wire varieties (separate AKC breeds since 1985) and the smaller American Toy Fox Terrier; known for prey drive, energy, and Westminster Best-in-Show wins.

Fox Theatre (Atlanta)

The Fox Theatre (Atlanta): 1929 Neo-Mideastern movie palace at Peachtree and Ponce de Leon, built for the Yaarab Temple Shriners, saved by Atlanta Landmarks in 1975, now a 4,665-seat National Historic Landmark.

Fox Theatre (Detroit)

The Fox Theatre is a 1928 movie palace on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, now a concert venue and the largest continually operating theater in the country.

Fox Wars

The Fox Wars were military confrontations between the Meskwaki people, called the Fox by the French, and New France and its Indigenous allies, fought mainly from 1712 to 1730.

Fox-Amphoux

Fox-Amphoux (Fos Amfos) is a perched Provencal commune in the Var, France, at 540 m; known for the Gallo-Roman Clastre temple with a colossal Minerva statue, Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils, and a cave chapel of Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours.

Fox-Wizel

Fox-Wizel Ltd. (פוקס-ויזל בע"מ), trading as Fox Group, is an Israeli fashion and sports retail group listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, operating Fox, Nike, Mango, and Foot Locker stores.

FOXA1

FOXA1 (forkhead box A1, formerly HNF3α) is a pioneer transcription factor that binds closed chromatin and opens it without ATP-dependent remodelers; it directs ER and AR signaling in breast and prostate cancer.

Foxboro (distributed control system)

Foxboro is a distributed control system for process industries, originated by The Foxboro Company of Massachusetts, whose I/A Series of 1987 remains in service under Schneider Electric, which acquired the line in 2014.

Foxboro Stadium

Foxboro Stadium (Schaefer/Sullivan Stadium), Foxborough, Massachusetts: Patriots' NFL home 1971–2001, ~60,000 seats, built privately in 327 days for ~$7.1 million, replaced by Gillette Stadium.

Foxborough, Massachusetts

Foxborough (also Foxboro) is a Norfolk County, Massachusetts town incorporated June 10, 1778 and named for Charles James Fox; home of Gillette Stadium, the New England Patriots, and seven 2026 World Cup matches.

FOXC1

FOXC1 (forkhead box C1, formerly FKHL7/FREAC3) is a single-exon transcription factor gene on chromosome 6p25.3; mutations cause Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome type 3, glaucoma, and Peters anomaly, and overexpression occurs in over 16 cancers.

Foxcatcher

Foxcatcher (2014) is Bennett Miller's true-crime drama starring Steve Carell as heir John du Pont and Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo as wrestlers Mark and Dave Schultz; Cannes Best Director, five Oscar nominations.

Foxconn

Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturer founded in 1974, the world's largest and principal assembler of Apple's iPhones.

Foxconn suicides

Foxconn suicides: 2010 cluster of suicides and attempts, 13 completed and 5 attempted, among young migrant workers at Foxconn's (富士康) Shenzhen electronics factories, triggering government investigation, anti-suicide nets, wage rises, and Werther-effect research.

Foxe Basin

Foxe Basin: shallow Arctic inland sea in Nunavut, Canada, north of Hudson Bay between Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula; ~207,500 km², first-year ice most of the year, named for Luke Foxe (1631).