Fox Footy Channel

This article is about the defunct Aussie rules television channel. For the current channel, see Fox Footy. For the association football channels in the United States, see Fox Soccer and Fox Soccer Plus. For Fox Football Channel, the defunct association football channel in Southeast Asia, see Fox Sports (Southeast Asian TV network) § Former channels.

Fox Footy Channel
CountryAustralia
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture format576i (SDTV)
Ownership
OwnerFoxtel
History
Launched6 March 2002[1]
ReplacedC7 Sport (Optus)
Closed1 October 2006
Replaced byFox Sports 3

The Fox Footy Channel was a channel exclusively dedicated to Australian rules football. It was owned by Foxtel and operated out of their Melbourne-based studios. From 2002 to 2006 it was available on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television, TransTV[2] and Neighbourhood Cable until transmission ceased on 1 October 2006. The channel was revived as Fox Footy for the 2012 AFL season after a new broadcast agreement was reached between Fox Sports and the AFL.

  1. ^ FOX SPORTS Video Player Archived 9 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "TransACT offers more movies, more sport and more enjoyment". Canberra Times. 12 June 2005. p. 41.