Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company is the original US home of the 1996 tele-film with Paul McGann.

Though seen as a full competitor to the older ABC, NBC and CBS terrestrial networks in the 21st century, it was just emerging as a significant national broadcaster in 1996. At the time of the broadcast of the film, they had only been programming full seven-day weeks for three years, and were still acquiring stations in the smaller markets of the United States. Nevertheless, their flagship programme, The Simpsons, a growing stable of successful primetime soaps, and their recent acquisition of rights to broadcast professional American football, had begun to threaten the dominance of "The Big Three" when McGann debuted.

North American release of Doctor Who (1996)

Fox (since 2013, a separate entity to 20th Century Fox, later 20th Century Studios) retained partial ownership of the 1996 movie, and this ownership had prevented the release of the tele-film on home video in North America until 2011.