Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Network (often rendered as FOX) is a television network channel in the United States. FOX was the original broadcaster of Futurama in the world, and owned the rights to broadcast it first during its original run.

Futurama on FOX
Many regard FOX's lack of respect for the show as the reasoning for its original failure. FOX managed to air it so terrible and pre-emptive that its original four seasons became five broadcast seasons. And episodes that were to air in 2002 first aired in 2003.

In addition to its unstable schedule, FOX rarely did any advertisement for the show on its own network. And fans had hard figuring out when an episode were to air.

When Adult Swim gained the rights to broadcast Futurama on cable in 2002, the show saw a much more stable schedule, despite being reruns.

While people cite FOX for Futurama's failure, they often cite Adult Swim's handling of the show for its revival.