Fox Corporation

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Fox Corporation is a leading U.S.-based mass media conglomerate, spun off from 21st Century Fox in 2019. It owns core broadcast television, news, and sports assets including the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News Channel, Fox Sports, and the Fox Television Stations group, with headquarters in New York City.

Key moments

2018-12The Murdoch family announces plans to split 21st Century Fox into two separate companies
2019-03Fox Corporation is formally established following the completion of the corporate split
2019-07Fox Corporation begins independent operations and lists on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol FOXA and FOX
2023-04Fox Corporation settles the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million

Fox Corporation competes in several key media segments:

Broadcast Television: Competes directly with CBS, NBC, and ABC, as well as niche broadcast networks like The CW
News Media: Fox News Channel is a major competitor to CNN and MSNBC, with a conservative-leaning audience positioning distinct from its rivals
Sports Broadcasting: Fox Sports competes with ESPN, NBC Sports, and Warner Bros. Discovery Sports for rights to major sports leagues including NFL, MLB, NASCAR, and college sports
Cable Networks: Faces competition from other cable news, sports, and entertainment networks owned by companies like Paramount Global, The Walt Disney Company, and Warner Bros. Discovery

Fox News maintains a dominant position in U.S. cable news with a loyal conservative audience base
Fox Sports holds valuable rights to NFL, MLB, and other top sports properties, giving it a competitive edge in live sports broadcasting
The company's broadcast network faces increasing competition from streaming services that have cut into traditional linear TV viewership

Fox Corporation is a prominent U.S.-based mass media conglomerate with strong brand recognition built on its distinct audience positioning and iconic legacy media assets. Since its 2019 spin-off from 21st Century Fox, the company has consolidated its position across broadcast television, cable news, and sports media, leveraging well-established properties like Fox News Channel and Fox Sports to maintain a large, loyal consumer base. The brand benefits from clear ideological differentiation in the news segment, which has helped it carve out a stable, dedicated market share distinct from more centrist rival networks, while its sports broadcasting division remains a key contender in bidding for premium live sports media rights.

Despite ongoing industry shifts toward streaming and digital on-demand media, Fox Corporation has retained its overall relevance through strategic adjustments to its linear and digital offerings, balancing legacy revenue streams from affiliate fees and advertising with incremental digital expansion. The brand’s focus on live content—particularly news and live sports—has helped it mitigate some of the cord-cutting headwinds that have impacted other linear media companies, as live content continues to draw large audiences and advertising spending.

As a competitor in multiple high-stakes media segments, Fox Corporation’s brand strength is tied closely to its ability to maintain its core audience loyalty while adapting to changing consumer behavior. The company’s focused portfolio, centered on high-margin core properties, allows it to compete effectively against larger diversified media conglomerates without spreading resources across too many underperforming segments.

Brand leadership

Score: 82/100

Fox Corporation holds strong leadership positions across its core U.S. media segments. Fox News Channel consistently tops cable news ratings among conservative-leaning audiences in the United States, while Fox Sports ranks among the top major sports broadcasters holding rights to premium properties including the NFL, MLB, and NASCAR. Its broadcast network remains a top-tier competitor to the legacy Big Three broadcast networks, giving the brand significant industry influence across multiple media categories.

Audience interaction

Score: 78/100

The brand maintains high levels of consistent engagement with its core audience, particularly through Fox News' loyal viewership and active social media presence that drives ongoing national discourse. Fox Sports also fosters strong interaction with sports fans through live event coverage and complementary digital content, though the brand's polarized positioning means engagement is concentrated among its core demographic rather than broadly distributed across the general public.

Growth momentum

Score: 62/100

The broader linear media industry faces long-term headwinds from ongoing cord-cutting, which has limited Fox Corporation's overall growth momentum. The brand has recorded stable revenue from its core news and sports assets, but has not achieved the rapid expansion seen by streaming-focused media competitors, with most incremental growth coming from digital extensions of existing brands rather than large-scale entry into new markets.

Financial stability

Score: 80/100

Fox Corporation benefits from consistent advertising and affiliate revenue from its established cable and broadcast assets, generating strong cash flow to support ongoing operations and premium sports rights acquisitions. The company's focused portfolio of core, high-margin media properties reduces exposure to underperforming non-core segments, contributing to solid long-term financial stability despite broader industry disruption.

Brand longevity

Score: 45/100

As a standalone corporate entity, Fox Corporation was only established in 2019 following its spin-off from 21st Century Fox, making it a relatively young organization. However, the Fox brand name and its core operating assets (including the Fox Broadcasting Company and Fox News Channel) have decades of established history in U.S. media, allowing the brand to leverage extended legacy recognition despite the youth of the current corporate structure.

Industry profile

Score: 88/100

Fox Corporation is one of the most high-profile media companies in the United States, with its brands regularly at the center of national political and cultural discourse. Its distinct audience positioning in news and dominant role in live sports broadcasting make it a widely recognized and influential player within the global media industry, with an outsized public profile relative to its overall revenue scale compared to larger multinational media conglomerates.

Global brand reach

Score: 32/100

Fox Corporation's core operations and audience are overwhelmingly concentrated in the United States, with very limited linear or digital brand presence outside of North America. Unlike many competing multinational media conglomerates, the company has not pursued large-scale global expansion, keeping its operational and brand footprint primarily domestic, which results in a low globalization score.

AI can support preliminary reasoning around Fox Corporation's brand value, but all generated value figures are illustrative only. For a comprehensive, audited brand value assessment for Fox Corporation, contact the World Brand Lab directly.

Overview

Fox Corporation

hq location
type	Public
traded as	nasdaq: FOXA (Class A) nasdaq: FOX (Class B) S&P 500 component (FOXA, FOX)
isin	isin: US35137L1052 isin: US35137L2043
industry	Media
predecessors	News Corporation 21st Century Fox
founded	March 19, 2019
founder	Rupert Murdoch

History

hq location city	New York City, New York

hq location country	U.S.

area served	Worldwide

key people	Rupert Murdoch (chairman emeritus) Lachlan Murdoch (chairman and CEO) John P. Nallen (COO)‡R1R‡

products	Television programs Web portals

services	Broadcasting Licensing Streaming Television

revenue	US$16.30 billion

revenue year	2025

operating income	US$3.06 billion

income year	2025

net income	US$2.29 billion

net income year	2025

assets	US$23.20 billion

assets year	2025

equity	US$12.07 billion

equity year	2025

num employees	10,400 (2025)

owner	Lachlan Murdoch (36% voting power)

divisions	Fox Entertainment Fox Television Stations Fox News Media Fox Sports Media Group Tubi Media Group

website	foxcorporation.com

footnotes	Financials as of fiscal year ended June 30, 2025. References:‡R2R‡‡R3R‡‡R4R‡

Formation

On December 14, 2017, the Walt Disney Company announced its intent to acquire the motion picture, television production, cable entertainment, and direct broadcast satellite divisions of 21st Century Fox (the former News Corporation, which spun off its publishing assets in 2013), including 20th Century Fox and FX Networks, for $52.4 billion. The remainder of the company would form a so-called "New Fox", maintaining control of assets such as Fox's television network and broadcast stations (which Disney, already owning ABC, would be legally unable to own due to an FCC policy known as the "dual network rule", which prohibits mergers between the top broadcast networks), Fox News, the national operations of Fox Sports, and the 20th Century Fox studio lot, which would be leased to Disney for seven years.

Operations

Fox Corp began operating separately on March 19, 2019.[3] Chairman and CEO Lachlan Murdoch led a town hall meeting three days later, indicating that stock would be issued to the corporation's employees based on longevity.[27]

In May 2019, via the Fox Sports division, Fox Corp acquired a 4.99% stake in Canadian online gambling operator The Stars Group for $236 million. As a result, it was also announced that the companies would co-develop sports betting products for the U.S. market under the branding Fox Bet.[28]

In early July 2019, Fox Entertainment announced the formation of SideCar, with executives led by Gail Berman. SideCar was a content development unit for Fox and other outlets.[29] In June 2020, SideCar was shut down by Fox.[30]

In August 2019, Fox Corp acquired a 67-percent majority stake in Credible Labs for $397 million and animation studio Bento Box Entertainment for $50 million.[31][32][33] On April 20, 2020, Fox Corp acquired streaming service Tubi for $440 million.[34][35] In September 2021, Fox Corp acquired TMZ from WarnerMedia in a deal worth about $50 million, with TMZ being operated under the Fox Entertainment division.[36] In December 2021, Fox Corp acquired the film and television production studio MarVista Entertainment.[37]

In September 2022, Fox Corp announced the launch of Fox Entertainment Studios. This is the company's first venture into entirely in-house television production. The studio's first show, Monarch, premiered on September 11, 2022.[39] Fox also announced that Fox Entertainment would re-enter the international distribution business by launching a sales unit called Fox Entertainment Global.[40]

On October 14, 2022, it was announced that, under the instruction of Rupert Murdoch, a special committee had been established to explore a potential merger of Fox and News Corp, bringing the two companies back together since the former 21st Century Fox was spun-off from News Corp in 2013.[41] Although Lachlan Murdoch supported his father in the proposal, James Murdoch opposed it, as did many shareholders.[42] On January 24, 2023, the proposed merger was abandoned by Murdoch.[43][44]

In April 2023, Fox announced it would be forming Tubi Media Group. This would be a standalone digital business unit, encompassing Tubi, Credible Labs, Blockchain Creative Labs, along with several other Fox digital sports, news and entertainment platforms[45] and teams, in which Paul Cheesbrough was announced as CEO.[46]

In September 2024, Rupert Murdoch applied to a Nevada probate court to remove voting rights from his children other than Lachlan, as set out in the irrevocable family trust. The other siblings, Prudence MacLeod, Elisabeth Murdoch, and James Murdoch, are more moderate politically than their father or brother, and Rupert was keen to keep the conservative political bias in his media outlets. On December 9, 2024, The New York Times reported that the court had ruled against the Murdochs, who, the probate commissioner wrote, had acted in bad faith when trying to change the trust.[47][48]

In February 2025, Fox acquired the podcast and media company Red Seat Ventures, in a move to expand Fox's reach into the podcast market. Red Seat Ventures would continue to operate as an independent company, and be placed under Tubi Media Group.[49]

In May 2025, Fox announced plans to launch Fox One, a new American streaming service targeting cord-cutters and cord-nevers, which includes the Fox broadcast network and the company's cable channels. The service launched on August 21.[50][51]

In June 2025, Fox announced the acquisition of Caliente TV, a Mexican sports broadcasting platform. As a result, this would allow Fox to expand its portfolio of sports-related programming as well as establishing a firmer hold in sports broadcasting in Mexico. To help lead this company, Fox named Carlos Martinez as executive vice president and managing director of Latin America for the Fox Corp.[52][53]

In July 2025, Fox Corporation announced that it would acquire a one-third stake in Penske Entertainment, parent company of the IndyCar Series and Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The acquisition includes an unspecified extension of its media rights to the IndyCar Series, which began in the 2025 season.[54]

In October 2025, Fox Entertainment invested in vertical video company Holywater. As part of the deal, Fox Entertainment Studios will create and produce more than 200 vertical video titles for My Drama over the next two years.[55]

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