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unusual facts about Television networks preceding ABC Family



Channel drift

Launching as religious network CBN Satellite Service (a cable extension of televangelist Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network) in 1977, it later incorporated family-oriented secular programs by 1984, which became the channel's dominant form of programming for nearly two decades.

Michael Roberds

He starred on Fox Family's The New Addams Family as Uncle Fester.

Nicole Fugere

She was later cast again as Wednesday for The New Addams Family, an updated version of the 1960s series that aired on Fox Family Channel from 1998 to 1999, and she appeared in nearly all of the program's 65 episodes.

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

It was originally shown in the U.K. on BBC between 1992 and 1995 and subsequently broadcast in the U.S. on Family Channel from 1993–1995 (with some of the characters' voices re-dubbed by actors with more American-like accents).


see also

Fox Family

Fox Family, a former name of American television cable network ABC Family (see also Television networks preceding ABC Family)