History
It was announced on 28 April 2011 that the channel would be revived for the 2012 AFL season. The channel returned exclusively on Foxtel and its broadcasting partners, under the proposed new name of "Fox Sports AFL", which was later changed back to its original name "Fox Footy". The channel relaunched at 5:00 pm AEDT on Friday 17 February 2012 with the first NAB Cup round-robin match between Hawthorn, Richmond and North Melbourne broadcast exclusively that night. Fox Footy has exclusive broadcast rights to all NAB Cup games exclusively (except for the NAB Cup Grand Final which is also broadcast on Seven), all home and away matches and all finals matches (except for the Grand Final which will screen exclusively on Seven) until 2016. All matches are broadcast live to air in both Standard and High Definition with no commercial breaks during play. Foxtel have since broken this promise, broadcasting several games in SD. When two live matches are being played simultaneously, Fox Sports 1 broadcasts one of the matches.
From the start of the 2012 AFL season, Fox Footy had become the most watched Pay-TV network in Australia.
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