Fox Life

Fox Life is an international pay television network, launched by the Fox Networks Group in 2004. The network has been discontinued in several markets over time, except for the Middle East, Bulgaria, Portugal, the Balkans, India and Greece.

Fox Life
CountryUnited States
Headquarters1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York
Programming
Language(s)Hindi
Picture formatHDTV 1080i
(downscaled to 16:9 576i or 480i for SD feeds, dependent on market's SD standard)
Ownership
OwnerInternational: Fox Networks Group
(Disney International Operations)
United States: Walt Disney Television
Sister channels
History
Launched
  • 13 May 2004 (2004-05-13) (first broadcast in Italy)
  • 1 July 2005 (2005-07-01) (Latin America)
  • 4 November 2013 (2013-11-04) (United States)
  • 1 October 2017 (2017-10-01) (Southeast Asia & Hong Kong)
Closed
  • 31 December 2009 (2009-12-31) (France)
  • 30 September 2011 (2011-09-30) (Japan)
  • 16 January 2015 (2015-01-16) (Poland)
  • 22 September 2015 (2015-09-22) (Flanders)
  • 31 December 2016 (2016-12-31) (Netherlands)
  • 1 July 2020 (2020-07-01) (Italy)
  • 30 September 2020 (2020-09-30) (Africa)[1]
  • 1 January 2021 (2021-01-01) (South Korea and Turkey)
  • 22 February 2021 (2021-02-22) (Latin America as Fox Life)
  • 16 March 2021 (2021-03-16) (SD Feed, Malaysia)
  • 1 September 2021 (2021-09-01) (Now TV feed, Hong Kong)
  • 1 October 2021 (2021-10-01) (Southeast Asia and Hong Kong)[2]
  • 31 December 2021 (2021-12-31) (Spain)[3]
  • 31 March 2022 (2022-03-31) (United States) (Latin America as Star Life)
  • 1 October 2022 (2022-10-01) (Russia & Belarus)
Replaced by
Former names
Links
Website

The network's scheduling has varied with each version, ranging from traditional entertainment programming, including television series, sitcoms and movies, among others, original programming in certain regions, and instructional and aspirational reality television on some other variations; in North America for instance, the network carried mainly Spanish language dubbed versions of American reality shows and instructional programming. The channel has been owned by International Operations division of The Walt Disney Company since March 2019.

History

Fox Life first launched in Italy on May 13, 2004, Portugal on May 19, 2005, and in Bulgaria on September 8, 2005. For Latin America, it started in July 2006, when it was launched in Brazil. The channel also has versions in other countries around Europe. It launched in the Netherlands and Flanders on September 7, 2008.[4] Fox Life launched in the United States on November 4, 2013.[5]

Flemish version

As of 22 November 2011 Fox had to change the programming for Fox Life in Flanders due to television rights issues in Belgium. From then on a separate Flemish version was airing in Belgium. It used to air the Dutch version. The provider of satellite television in the Netherlands, Canal Digitaal, had to replace Fox Life by the Finnish version as well because it shared the Fox Life feed with the Belgium provider of satellite television, TV Vlaanderen Digitaal.[6]

Launch in Southeast Asia

On October 1, 2017, Hong Kong and Southeast Asian version of Star World was rebranded to Fox Life.[7][8][9]

Fox Life
CountryHong Kong
HeadquartersHong Kong
Taiwan
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture formatHDTV 1080i
SDTV 576i
Ownership
OwnerDisney Star
History
LaunchedOctober 1, 2017 (2017-10-01)
ClosedOctober 1, 2021 (2021-10-01)
Links
WebsiteFoxLife.it Defunct

Rebranding/closing in Europe

From 22 September 2015 Fox Life has been replaced by 24Kitchen for satellite viewers in the Netherlands. The Finnish Fox Life was rebranded as Fox.[10]

Fox Networks Group Benelux announced that Fox Life would officially close in the Netherlands on December 31, 2016.[11]

Rebranding/closing in Latin America

On 27 November 2020 Fox announced that they would be renaming the Fox branded channels in Latin America to Star Life on 22 February 2021.[12] The networks closed on 31 March 2022 along with the American version.[13]

Closing in Southeast Asia

From 1 September 2021, FOX Life along with most of The Walt Disney Company channels (Fox Crime, Fox, FX, Disney Junior, Disney Channel, Nat Geo People, Fox Movies, Fox Action Movies, Fox Family Movies, Star Movies China, SCM Legend, and five of its sports channels) officially ceased broadcasting and transmission on Now TV Hong Kong.[14]

After 11 years of broadcasting, FOX Life along with most of The Walt Disney Company channels across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong (Fox Crime, Fox, FX, Disney Junior, Disney Channel, Nat Geo People, Fox Movies, Fox Action Movies, Fox Family Movies, Star Movies China, SCM Legend, and five of its sports channels[15]) officially ceased all operations, transmission and broadcasting on 1 October 2021 with the very final and last two (2) programs aired is The Good Doctor (Malaysia and Brunei Only) and The Unicorn (Rest of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong), very final and last showing a farewell then a video montage as part of the final shutdown sequence rolled showing footage of imported content programming set to Long Piao Piao (龍飄飄)'s Diu Bu Le De Qing Yi (丟不了的情意). This modulated to a farewell montage with similar clips interspersed. As the final lyric of the song ricocheted on the air, the real in accelerated format before the channel ident was played for one concluding and last time, promo of In the Dark Season 3, and ceased transmission while a final farewell on-screen message card and the words "This channel is no longer available, thank you for watching." was ceased broadcasts the end. All these channels shows officially moved to Disney+ (in Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and Disney+ Hotstar (in Southeast Asia outside Singapore and Philippines),[16] and the channel space initially created by the original incarnation of Star Plus in 1991 subsequently folded and ceased to exist.

Closing in the United States

Notice of the discontinuation of the American iteration of Fox Life was sent to cable providers by Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution in late December 2021; the channel would be discontinued on March 31, 2022.[17]

See also

References
  1. "Going dark on DStv: Disney's FOX Life and Disney XD the next TV channels leaving MultiChoice's pay-TV service at the end of September 2020". TV with Thinus. 7 September 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  2. Multiple sources:
  3. Layton, Mark (5 January 2022). "Disney closes Spanish pay-tv channels Fox Life & Viajar". TBI Vision. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  4. "[Kabel] Fox Life Nederland start op 7 september". Sat4all – Alles over Satelliet TV, Ziggo en Telenet! (in Dutch). Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  5. "Fox to launch Fox Life, a new channel for U.S Hispanics". Fox News Latino. 13 March 2015. Archived from the original on 13 March 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  6. Jarco Kriek (12 November 2011). "CanalDigitaal-abonnees moeten The Simpsons op FOXlife missen" (in Dutch). Totaal TV.
  7. "Turn on as Star World rebrands to FOX life - InqPOP!". InqPOP!. 2 October 2017.
  8. "Star World X FOX Life: The 'Makeover' Begins!". YouTube. 28 August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  9. "NGC to launch 4 new channels; seeks licences for 4 Fox channels in India". Exchange4media.com. 27 November 2008. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  10. Jarco Kriek (21 September 2015). "24Kitchen vervangt Foxlife Bij CanalDigitaal" (in Dutch). Totaal TV.
  11. Jarco Kriek (2 November 2016). "FOXlife stopt" (in Dutch). Totaal TV.
  12. "Disney Renaming Fox Channels In Latin America To Star". 27 November 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  13. Cardozo, Alberto (10 January 2022). "Disney XD, Nat Geo Kids, Star Life, Nat Geo Wild y FXM cesarán, transmisiones en Latinoamérica en marzo". ANMTVLA (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  14. "Disney pulling plug on Asian sports channels in DTC pivot - SportsPro Media". www.sportspromedia.com. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  15. "Disney pulling plug on Asian sports channels in DTC pivot - SportsPro Media". www.sportspromedia.com. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  16. Middleton, Richard (28 April 2021). "Disney to close 18 channels in Asia as streaming focus expands". Digital TV Europe. Retrieved 29 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. "Fox Life - Ceasing distribution effective March 31, 2022". National Cable Television Cooperative (U.S.). Disney Media & Distribution. 21 December 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
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