In 2019, Disney took ownership of 21st Century Studios. Since then they've been removing trying to rid themselves of the FOX name by turning 20th Century FOX Television into 20th Television and even going as far as replacing the international FOX Sports channels with ESPN.
FOX might be rebranding sooner than anticipated I mean there was no actual timeframe on when Star would replace more FOX channels since the last the trail went silent in Latin America back in February but the UK might have answered that.
The channel is scheduled to shutdown by the end of June in the UK and Africa could follow around that time if not the exact date the only thing difference here we'll follow Latin America and have a linear version of Star.
FOX turns 11 later in July or maybe it will be replaced before then as the channel started uploading new content but in this case it's coming from Disney+ Star. The second Star original Marvel's Helstorm is rolling out in the same month with the first being Solar Opposites that rolled out in May.
This theory seems very possible last year the UK lost their Disney Channels which came at the exact time Africa lost Disney XD.
Following on XD's demise, the channel began to phase out in groups in other territories within a span of 3 months. So chances are Star could roll out in groups on FOX like it did on Disney+.
It's possible that FOX in Africa won't wait for Disney+ to arrive in the market or even Utsav to take a toll on Star India's channels. For starters, Star's content on Disney+ is distributable and second with India none of their channels are called Star in general so as much as the logos cause confusion it wouldn't be too difficult to tare them apart.
In the end, I could see FOX remain only in the United States and Turkey by the end of the year.
If the rebrand does occur between June or July then Disney just missed the opportunity to inform the media about FOX's demise which wouldn't come as a surprise as they failed to last year to inform the media over the removal of FOX Life and Disney XD.
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