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Fox Sports 2
Fox Sports 2 (branded on-air as FS2) is an American sports-orientedpay televisionchannel owned by the Fox Sports Media Group, a unit of Fox Corporation. The channel is based at the Fox Sports division's headquarters on the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City section of Los Angeles, California.
The network was founded as Fuel TV on July 1, 2003, focusing on the culture of extreme sports, including skateboarding, snowboarding, wakeboarding, motocross, surfing, BMX and FMX. The network's prominence expanded further with the introduction of UFCmixed martial arts programming to its lineup in 2012 as part of Speed Channel with Fox Sports. On August 17, 2013, Fuel TV was rebranded as Fox Sports 2, refocusing primarily as an overflow channel for the newly launched mainstream sports network Fox Sports 1. The relaunch of Fuel TV as FS1's sister network received little advanced promotion.
As of September 2018, approximately 57.5 million households (62.3 percent of households with cable TV) received Fox Sports 2. By June 2023, this number dropped to 52.6 million households.