Fox Movie Channel

Fox Movie Channel is a commercial-free cable TV channel that focuses on the 20th Century Fox film library. In 2015, Fox Entertainment Group once again restarted Fox Movie Channel.

Focus on classic films
Originally intended to be titled "Fox Movie Studio" during the planning stages, the channel first launched at midnight on October 31, 1994 as fXM: Movies from Fox, a name derived from its sister cable channel FX, which debuted five months earlier on June 1. The first movie to air on fXM was the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".

Its original format focused solely on classic movies from the 20th Century Fox film library, which were presented commercial-free and (in regard to films originally released in black-and-white) uncolorized, and were generally shown without editing for content and time; the films that were broadcast were mainly releases from the 1920s to the 1980s. The channel officially changed to its name to Fox Movie Channel on March 1, 2000.

The Return of Fox Movie Channel
In 2015, Fox Entertainment Group revisited the idea of a movie channel focusing on 20th Century Fox films to compete with Turner Classic Movies, MGM HD and Sony Movie Channel. After witnessing the success of Discovery Communications' HD Theater (now Velocity), Fox Entertainment Group decided to give it another try, and just as HD Theater changed their name to Velocity back in 2012, Fox Movie Channel returned to the airways on Apr. 30, 2015.