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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreat 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.
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
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hlthe2b
(101,703 posts)1. I'd trade having a ceremonial Queen for getting rid of Fox news.
any day of the week.
BritVic
(262 posts)2. My late Mum had a Sky subscription (she was a football fan)
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 !
HipChick
(25,485 posts)5. Brits hate ads...esp the US ones..
some of the British ads are very funny though...
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)3. I would like to think it's the beginning of the end.
Oh please make it so.
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)4. America
Should follow this example.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)6. !!!!!!
Is anyone else seeing this long, intricate line of cards with Mueller at the "start"?
TAP that baby, Mr. Mueller!
appalachiablue
(41,047 posts)7. The US should be so lucky, 'Fox Free, Forever.'