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syringis

(5,101 posts)
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 12:09 PM Apr 2018

Great Britain is Now a Fox News Free Zone.

The good news:


CNN

“The network's parent company, 21st Century Fox, has announced that the controversial news channel will no longer be broadcast in the U.K. after failing to attract an audience. The network has also become a lightning rod for critics seeking to spoil the Murdochs' planned $15 billion takeover of Sky, the top pay TV provider in the U.K.

"Fox News is focused on the U.S. market and designed for a U.S. audience and, accordingly, it averages only a few thousand viewers across the day in the U.K.," 21st Century Fox said in a statement. (snip)

This is the Murdochs' second attempt to buy Sky. A previous bid collapsed in 2012 in the wake of a phone-hacking scandal at his British newspapers. Fox would have to pay Sky £200 million as a break fee if the deal falls apart.”

And, the bad:

"Fox News is focused on the U.S. market and designed for a U.S. audience...”

George Bernard Shaw (maybe) once said: “England and America are two countries separated by the same language.”

It would seem we are also separated by a vast ocean of gullibility.



https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/4/1754360/-Great-Britain-is-Now-a-Fox-News-Free-Zone
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Great Britain is Now a Fox News Free Zone. (Original Post) syringis Apr 2018 OP
I'd trade having a ceremonial Queen for getting rid of Fox news. hlthe2b Apr 2018 #1
My late Mum had a Sky subscription (she was a football fan) BritVic Apr 2018 #2
Brits hate ads...esp the US ones.. HipChick Apr 2018 #5
I would like to think it's the beginning of the end. lpbk2713 Apr 2018 #3
America lsewpershad Apr 2018 #4
!!!!!! raven mad Apr 2018 #6
The US should be so lucky, 'Fox Free, Forever.' appalachiablue Apr 2018 #7

BritVic

(262 posts)
2. My late Mum had a Sky subscription (she was a football fan)
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 12:33 PM
Apr 2018

Fox News was way down the channel listings in the News section - apart from the relentless Murdoch propaganda, it was full of interminable ad breaks, which the Brits don't like. Also, the few times I saw bits of Fox and Friends, I could not stand that creep Doocy !

raven mad

(4,940 posts)
6. !!!!!!
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 08:51 PM
Apr 2018

Is anyone else seeing this long, intricate line of cards with Mueller at the "start"?

TAP that baby, Mr. Mueller!

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