In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form an independent television system, a fourth television network which would compete with the three major U. S. television networks ( ABC, CBS, and NBC ).

Fox survived where DuMont and other attempts to start a fourth network failed because it programmed just under the number of hours to be legally considered a network by the FCC.

When the final votes were counted, Banting finished fourth behind Tommy Douglas, Terry Fox and Pierre Trudeau.

The US would not have a fourth major network until the birth of the Fox network in 1986.

Rennie's second Fox film gave him fourth billing in the top tier.

He had a minor role in the fourth radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and a lead role in the Radio 1 sci-fi BBC / 20th Century Fox radio play, Independence Day UK in which amongst other things, Moore fills in as a Navigator.

" Burns, Baby Burns " is the fourth episode of The Simpsons < nowiki >'</ nowiki > eighth season, first aired by the Fox network on November 17, 1996.

It was the fourth highest-rated show on the Fox network that week, following The X-Files, Melrose Place, and Beverly Hills, 90210.

For the fourth season, in the week before an episode was broadcast on television, it was available via on demand streaming through Fox Interactive Media's MySpace and MyFoxLocal stations.

Paramount bought one more TV station in 1993: WKBD-TV in Detroit, Michigan ( the same state where the conglomerate got its start ), at the time an affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company ( which was headed by Barry Diller, who had proposed a " fourth network " while working for Paramount, but could not convince the board ; Fox's owner, News Corporation, was, however, interested in starting a network ).

After making various guest appearances on Due South, Murder, She Wrote and Poltergeist: The Legacy, Holden found some success playing a memorable recurring role on the seminal sci-fi series The X-Files, that of Marita Covarrubias, a mysterious government worker who becomes an informant to Special Agent Fox Mulder starting in the fourth season of that show through the final one ( 1996 – 2002 ).

In an IGN poll for voting from a list of ten Nintendo characters for favorite Nintendo character of all time, Fox came in fourth, behind Link, Mario, and Samus respectively.

His maternal fourth great grandfather was Richard Bennett ( Governor ) of Virginia, elected to that office during the Cromwell Protectorate and a Puritan at the time who in 1672 was converted to the Quaker movement by George Fox.

* Irwin " Sonny " Fox – The first Challenge host was also known at the time for co-hosting the CBS children's travelogue Let's Take a Trip ( Fox described it as " Taking two children on sort of an electronic field trip every week – live, remote location, no audience, no sponsors "), but his fame rests predominantly on his eight-year ( 1959 – 1967 ) tour as the suave, congenial and dryly witty fourth host of New York's Sunday morning children's learn-and-laugh marathon, Wonderama.

Fox moved it to the Friday night death slot for its fourth season.

The German hip hop musician Peter Fox used a theme from the fourth movement in his song " Alles neu " (" Everything New ").

Harold Fox Pitt Lubbock, fourth son of the first Baron.

Fox is a relative newcomer that began in 1986, although it is built upon the remnants of the former DuMont Television Network, which was an earlier " fourth network " that operated from 1948 to 1956.

In Game 5 Fox scored the only run when Sherm Lollar hit into a double play in the fourth inning.

Fox participated in the third season of ABC's hit television show, Dancing with the Stars, she was voted off after the fourth week.

The title of Baron Holland became extinct with the death of the fourth Baron, Henry Edward Fox, in 1859.

Three of the four stations were ABC affiliates ( WXEX-TV switched from NBC to ABC in 1965, WATE-TV switched from NBC to ABC in 1979, and WBAY-TV switched from CBS to ABC in 1992 ); the fourth ( KITN / WFTC ) was an independent and later a Fox affiliate while under Nationwide's stewardship.

Britny Fox reunited in 2000 with the same line-up before their disbandment, and released a fourth studio album, Springhead Motorshark, in 2003.

The story of the men's claims was covered by many major news networks, including BBC, CNN, ABC News, and Fox News.

On September 20 President Obama appeared on all major news programs except Fox News, a snub partially in response to remarks about the president by commentators Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Fox coverage of Obama's health-care proposal.

Then, a major opportunity arose when Fox – buoyed by the returns from The Sound of Music ( 1965 ) – commissioned Kelly to direct Hello, Dolly!

During the Commonwealth, Fox had hoped that the movement would become the major church in England.

Hawk's contract with Fox ended in May 1929, and he never again signed a long-term contract with a major studio but managed to remain an independent producer-director for the rest of his long career.

This was the first time that a major television network successfully scheduled Super Bowl counterprogramming: Fox aired a special live football-themed episode of its popular sketch comedy show In Living Color during the halftime show.

Independent stations, even more than network affiliates, were feeling the growing pressure of audience erosion to cable television in the 1980s and 1990s, and there were unaffiliated commercial stations in most of the major markets, at least, even after the foundation of Fox in 1986.

Sir Cyril Fox completed the first major survey of the Dyke ( Fox 1955 ), and, in agreement with Asser, theorized that the Dyke ran from the estuary of the River Dee in the north to the River Wye in the south ( approximately 150 miles, or 240 km ).

Then-broadcaster CBS had lost well-established VHF ( channels 2 – 13 ) affiliates in major markets as a result of the Fox affiliate switches of 1994.

Although Fox was growing rapidly as a network and had established itself as a presence, it was still not considered a major competitor to the big three broadcast networks ( ABC, CBS, and NBC ).

For example, unlike the Big Three, the Fox network does not generally provide coverage of major political convention speeches, which usually occur during the 10: 00 pm ET hour when many affiliates air local news.

Fox, however, did air a nationally based morning show called Fox After Breakfast ( which was formerly Breakfast Time on Fox's FX cable channel ) between 1996 and 1998, which aired on all affiliates from 9 to 10 am as opposed to the other major networks airing theirs from 7 to 9 am Fox tried its hand again in 2001, at a morning show called Good Day Live, inspired by KTTV's Good Day L. A .— this time in syndication mode.

When the network launched, Fox management, having seen the critical role that sports programming ( soccer programming in particular ) had played in the growth of the British satellite service British Sky Broadcasting, believed that sports, and specifically professional football, would be the engine that would make Fox a major network the quickest.

However, the NFL, in part because Fox had not yet established itself as a major network, renewed its contract with ABC.

The " O " character also was made over, acquiring its trademark pillar-like bowl, which has since become a major focal point for the logo and Fox advertising in lieu of the searchlight motif.

Fox also does not air soap operas or any other network daytime programming, such as game shows or talk shows, despite being a major network.

In certain markets, a Fox affiliate may outsource news programming to an NBC, ABC or CBS station in the market ( either due to insufficient funds for production of their own newscasts or the station being operated under a duopoly or some form of an operational agreement with a major network affiliate ); while this is less common in the 50 largest television markets, the largest station in regards to market size using this arrangement is WPGH-TV / Pittsburgh ( in the 23rd largest U. S. media market ), which has broadcast a 10 p. m. newscast that is produced by Cox Media-owned NBC affiliate WPXI since the 2006 shutdown of WPGH's in-house news department by owner Sinclair Broadcast Group after the company's News Central division folded.

A scant number of stations affiliated with Fox do not carry any local newscasts and air syndicated programming in time periods where newscasts air on other major network affiliates.