Editing 20th Century Studios (section)

==Television division==
{{Main|20th Television}}
[[20th Television]] is the television production division of 20th Century Studios. It was known as 20th Century Fox Television until it adopted the 20th Television name in 2020. The original 20th Television was the studio's [[television syndication]] division until it was folded into [[Disney-ABC Domestic Television]] in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |last=Low |first=Elaine |date=August 10, 2020 |title=Disney Rebrands TV Studios, 20th Century Fox TV to Become 20th Television |url=https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/disney-rebrands-tv-studios-20th-television-abc-signature-touchstone-1234730574/ |access-date=August 10, 2020 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] }}</ref>

During the mid-1950s, feature films were released to television in the hope that they would broaden sponsorship and help the distribution of network programs. Blocks of one-hour programming of feature films to national sponsors on 128 stations were organized by 20th Century Fox and [[National Telefilm Associates]]. 20th Century Fox received 50% interest in the [[NTA Film Network]] after it sold its library to National Telefilm Associates. This gave 90 minutes of cleared time a week and syndicated feature films (under the package title "Premiere Performance") to 110 non-interconnected stations for sale to national sponsors.<ref name="Boddy">{{Cite book |last=Boddy |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sWjhCESKy4AC |title=Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics |publisher=[[University of Illinois Press]] |year=1990 |isbn=9780252062995 |location=[[Urbana, Illinois]]}}</ref>

=== Buyout of Four Star ===
Fox bought out the remaining assets of [[Four Star Television]] from [[Ronald Perelman]]'s [[Compact Video]] in 1996.<ref name="Ron Perelman">{{Cite news |date=July 18, 1996 |title=Perelman's Not Out of the Game Just Yet |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-18-fi-25297-story.html |access-date=April 11, 2022}}</ref> The majority of [[Four Star Television]]'s library of programs are controlled by [[20th Television]] today.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=http://www.life.com/image/50326921 |title=Louis E. Wolfson;David Charnay |date=January 1, 1955 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611121642/http://www.life.com/image/50326921 |archive-date=June 11, 2011 |url-status=dead |medium=Photo |work=Life}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=October 7, 2002 |title=OBIT/Hollywood Producer and Novelist David B. Charnay Dies at Age 90 |work=Business Wire |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_Oct_7/ai_92526318/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=McLellan |first=Dennis |date=October 6, 2002 |title=David Charnay, 90; Journalist, Publicist and TV Syndicator |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-oct-06-me-charnay6-story.html|access-date=April 11, 2022}}</ref> After Murdoch's numerous buyouts during the [[Leveraged buyout#1980s|buyout era]] of the eighties, News Corporation had built up financial debts of $7&nbsp;billion (much from Sky TV in the UK), despite the many assets that were held by NewsCorp.<ref name="Witzel">''The encyclopedia of the history of American management'' (2005) [[Morgen Witzel]] Continuum International Publishing Group p393 {{ISBN|978-1-84371-131-5}}</ref> The high levels of debt caused Murdoch to sell many of the American magazine interests he had acquired in the mid-1980s.