Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC — commonly known as Fox (stylized "FOX") — is an American commercial broadcast television network headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, with master control and additional offices in Los Angeles and Tempe, Arizona. It was founded by Rupert Murdoch and Barry Diller and launched October 9, 1986. It is a subsidiary of Fox Corporation (Nasdaq: FOXA/FOX), the media company spun off from 21st Century Fox in March 2019 following Disney's acquisition of most 21st Century Fox assets. Fox Corporation reported roughly $16.3 billion in FY2025 revenue (fiscal year ended June 30, 2025) and about 10,400 employees; those are parent-level figures — Fox Broadcasting's standalone financials are not separately disclosed.
Operations. Fox is the network itself, not a manufacturer: it commissions, acquires, markets and distributes prime-time entertainment, sports (NFL NFC package, MLB World Series) and news programming to owned-and-operated and affiliated stations nationwide. Within Fox Corporation's Television segment it sits alongside the Tubi AVOD service, 29 full-power broadcast stations (18 affiliated with the FOX network, 11 with MyNetworkTV), and in-house production companies. The network supplies roughly 15 hours of prime-time programming per week plus late-night and weekend blocks.
Litigation posture. The case data show 1 tracked case, as defendant only, 0 as plaintiff — the profile of an operating company being attacked, not an assertion-driven entity. The single tracked matter is HBAC MatchMaker Media Inc. v. Fox Broadcasting Company, No. 1:13-cv-00431, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (not a plaintiff-friendly EDTX venue).
Context. HBAC MatchMaker Media is a non-practicing entity (Stanford's NPE database categorizes it as "individual-inventor-started") asserting U.S. Patent Nos. 5,774,170 and 6,002,393, covering targeted/addressable advertising, acquired by assignment from the named inventors. In March 2013 HBAC filed roughly a dozen Delaware complaints against AOL, Disney, Yahoo, Google/YouTube, CBS Interactive, Viacom, DirecTV and others; the Fox action (with Fox News Network, News Corporation and Dow Jones as co-defendants) was dismissed with prejudice in May 2015. Related appeals proceeded to the Federal Circuit, which in May 2016 vacated the district court's claim construction and remanded.
Stanford NPE Litigation Database indexes this case as involving US 5,220,501, with HBAC MatchMaker Media Inc. as plaintiff and Fox Broadcasting Company et al. as defendants, filed in 2013 in D. Del. The narrative could not retrieve the disposition or independently verify the mapping.