<P> 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 UFC mixed martial arts programming to its lineup in 2012 as part of a wider deal 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 . </P> <P> As of January 2016, approximately 50,836,000 households (43.674 percent of households with TV) receive Fox Sports 2 . </P> <P> The network's concept originated in several extreme sports programming concepts . One of them originated from Alistair Gosling, founder of the Extreme Sports Channel and Extreme Sports TV distribution and production company Extreme . The concept, taken by Gosling to David Sternberg of Fox Sports Net, focused on expanding the coverage of extreme sports . This was translated into growing the existing programming block on the regional sports networks Fox Sports Net airing in the early evenings during the early 2000s on the network's affiliates, which included Blue Torch TV and EX TV, and combining it with brokered arrangements for individual shows which included among others New Waves Surf Television and 16MM, along with ideas from the Europe - based Extreme Sports Chanternberg, CJ Olivares and Lloyd Bryan Adams . </P> <P> Another spoke was the network's name, from a concept conceived and launched by independent producer Chris Braly as a weekly regional music and extreme sports broadcast that debuted on September 8, 2001 on WB affiliate WFLI - TV (channel 53, now a CW affiliate) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, using paid programming time on that station on Saturday evenings . News Corporation eventually negotiated a buyout of the concept and trademark in late 2003 . The regional weekly version of Fuel TV aired its final episode on WFLI in September of that year . </P>

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