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List of Fox Broadcasting Company affiliates

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ6571128 ↗
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The following is a list of affiliates for the Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox), a television network based in the United States. All affiliates owned by the network's Fox Television Stations division are owned-and-operated stations.

Stations are listed in alphabetical order by state, district or territory and media market.

(**) – Indicates station was a charter network owned-and-operated station in 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of Fox Broadcasting Company affiliates” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.