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Twentieth Century Fox Television
10201 W. Pico Blvd., Bldg. 88, Room 30
Los Angeles, CA 90035
CA Tel. 310-369-1000
Fax 310-369-8726

Type: Business Segment

No matter the era, this company thinks TV is still golden. Twentieth Century Fox Television is a leading producer of first-run television shows, primarily for its sister broadcast network FOX. Its slate of shows include 24, Bones, and Prison Break, as well as animated hits Family Guy, King of the Hill, and The Simpsons. The studio also makes shows for other networks, including Boston Legal (for ABC), How I Met Your Mother and The Unit (CBS), and My Name is Earl (NBC). Twentieth Century Fox Television is a unit of News Corporation's Fox Filmed Entertainment.

Officers:
Chairman: Gary Newman
Chairman: Dana Walden
EVP and CFO: Robert (Bob) Barron

Competitors:
CBS TV Distribution
Universal Media
Warner Bros. TV

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20th Century Fox Television
Type Subsidiary of News Corporation
Founded 1949 (as TCF Television Productions, Inc.)
Headquarters ,  United States
Industry Television production
Products Television programs
Revenue $11.7 billion USD (2006)
Operating income $845 million USD (2006)
Owner(s) News Corporation
Fox Entertainment Group
Direct Owner

Twentieth Century Fox Television, Inc. (also spelled 20th Century Fox Television) is the television production division of the Fox movie studio, a subsidiary of the Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Twentieth Television (also spelled 20th Television) is a separate distribution arm overseen by News Corp.'s Fox Television Stations Group, although it uses a variant of the studio logo. [1]

20th Century Fox Television was founded in 1949 as other studios were branching out into television production as well. At that time, the company was known as TCF Television Productions, Inc. until 1955. TCFT absorbed the operations of TV production companies Metromedia Producers Corporation in 1986 and MTM Enterprises in 1998, and is the current distributor for most of the shows originally produced by the two companies.

Since 1986, TCFT has served as the Fox television network's unofficial production arm, producing the bulk of series airing on the network, including The Simpsons. Twentieth Television produced the first two series that aired on Fox's sister network, MyNetworkTV: Desire and Fashion House.

From 1993 to 1994, the 20th Television logo was used to represent 20th Century Fox Television, though as stated, these were separate entities.

List of shows by TCFT

See also

References

  1. ^ Fox to launch MyNetworkTV - News Corp. press release; FTSG's oversight of 20th TV mentioned in second-last paragraph.

 
 

 

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