Even if You Never Watch FOX News You are Funding Their Programming

[GigiLeigh]

Pay for cable or satellite TV? You’re subsidizing Fox News whether you watch it or not.

Your cable or satellite TV provider pays a subscriber fee to carry Fox News. That cost is passed directly on to YOU.

Every network charges cable and satellite providers a small fee per subscriber; the one for Fox News is extraordinarily high. A typical household pays Fox News almost $2 per month—about $20 per year— via their cable or satellite provider, regardless of whether they actually watch the channel.

In 2020 and 2021, a wave of big contracts between Fox News and TV providers for subscriber fees are set to expire. These contracts make up about 65% if Fox News’ subscriber fee revenue. If we want to stop paying the Fox News “tax,” now is the time to act.





HIDDEN FEES FUELFOX NEWS’ BUSINESS
Fox News makes approximately $1.8 billion per year from hidden subscriber fees–twice as much as CNN and three times as much as MSNBC.

The network's extra-high fees, which make up most of its revenue, protect Fox News from the advertisers that are quickly abandoning it.

• Put pressure on your cable or satellite provider to stop using your money to subsidize Fox News on your dime. And you can let your cable or satellite company know you’re going to switch—unless they make a change.

• Cut the cord. You can now get your TV from streaming services that do not include Fox News. (Thanks, internet!)

• We’ll keep you updated on Fox News’ negotiations with cable and satellite providers and let you know if they’re trying to raise the price of subscriber fees in your area.



We’ll help you fight back against Fox News by depriving the network of the thing it values most of all: your money.


https://www.unfoxmycablebox.com/

[secondwind]

3. ok...

[TheBlackAdder]

36. I cut my Verizon FiOS, but... MSM uses FOX as the contrary voice for their "balance," amplifying it.

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Since FOX is almost always the opposing view, especially since they make up half of their opposite information, the other media, both paper and print cite them as that contradicting opinion. This is a bogus news practice of showing balanced reporting.

This does nothing more than amplify the FOX bullshit and give it some form of credibility.

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I cut the TV portion and only keep phone & internet, because we are not allowed ala carte selection and have networks like FOX, Newsmax and OAN forced on us. The worse part is that you cannot block those networks from showing up in the selection. You can set up a profile that you have to enable each time you turn the set on, but you can't make it a default no view setting. So, I cut the television out altogether.

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[luv2fly]

2. pssssst...

(You're shouting)

[GigiLeigh]

12. Sorry

It was a copy and paste. I should've fixed that.

[luv2fly]

23. Oh no worry

I've certainly done some bad copy/paste jobs myself!

[Ms. Toad]

4. Nope. Not me, ever.

Never paid for TV in my life.

[central scrutinizer]

5. Never subscribed to cable or satellite

And this is why, plus I never watch TV

[brush]

6. Doesn't that go both ways? FOX viewers subsidize CNN and MSNBC as well?

[Lady Freedom Returns]

8. Yup. n/t

[RockRaven]

10. I have seen other articles over the years which say that FOXNews charges the cable companies

several times more than CNN and MSNBC do. So the trade off is not equal. It also allows FUX to withstand advertiser boycotts, because with the larger payment from cable they can get by with low-rent commercials, such as buy gold and home-delivery of urinary catheters and hearing aids and reverse mortgages, instead of cars and fast food and booze.

[GigiLeigh]

14. Exactly

That was the point of my post.

[brush]

17. Wonder if FOX's fee is greater than CNN's and MSNBC's combined?

Whatever the case, I'd rather be informed watching CNN and MSNBC and also enjoying ESPN, the History Channel and the Turner movie channel than care about whether FOX makes a bit more.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

7. First of all, I thought everyone knew this.

And I don't have cable or satellite! So....

[Rorey]

9. I'm not sure

I have the the basic package from xfinity, and it is pretty bare bones. No FoxNews, no MSNBC, no CNN. I get the local channels and a few others that I really never watch. I had intended to just have internet, but the package with Basic is actually a little cheaper than internet alone.

I can listen to MSNBC online at no cost.

So am I STILL paying for FoxNews?

[Lady Freedom Returns]

30. Do they have any packages that have Fox News? n/t

[Rorey]

40. Every other package has FoxNews

That was the biggest reason I went with Basic. I made the switch when my now-ex-husband was plunging deeper and deeper into MAGA world, and prior to me downgrading the package, he'd sit and watch FoxNews every minute he could. Our cable bill was getting higher and higher, because that's how xfinity rolls (constantly raising their prices), so I told my then-husband that I was going to drop it altogether. He didn't believe me.

Well, I didn't drop it because I still needed the internet, and, as I said, the package WITH Basic television was cheaper than internet alone.

I came home from running an errand the morning his precious FoxNews disappeared and found him seething in his chair. He couldn't even talk because he was so mad.

I missed the channels I watched for awhile, but I adjusted. I'm sure he never did, but thankfully his MAGAt ass is out of my house and long gone now.

Life is good.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

41. Then something like $0.50 of your bill...

Goes to help them pay for the rights to show Fox. But that's for the news, sports and entertainment.

[GigiLeigh]

11. Just posting to see

if there was anything we could do to stop FAUX news from continuing to spew its propaganda. Boycotting advertisers doesn't seem to work. Someone on this forum mentioned earlier what can we do to stop the propaganda so I posted that as a way maybe we can band together and do something. They are still lying about the insurrection as well as the election. It makes so many people feel helpless to stop it.

Maybe we can do some sort of community wide project to go after the cable companies who still push this stuff. Even if you have cut the cord, so many others haven't and are hearing this crap everyday for hours on end.

[hunter]

13. There's no cable, satellite, or broadcast television in our house.

Hasn't been for more than a decade.

My wife and I usually watch DVDs and Netflix.

We can 'cast other stuff to our television but mostly we don't.

[Jarqui]

15. I canceled my cable because they would not exclude FOX from my package.

Happened several years ago - more than five.

Haven't missed it.

[SMC22307]

16. I haven't paid for cable or satellite since Dubya's second term.

I do, however, contribute to two public television stations and two major newspapers - one in the states and one in the UK.

And Netflix. Everyone needs an escape.

[TreasonousBastard]

18. Personally, I'm more pissed that I have to pay for a bunch of sports and other channels I...

have no interest in.

240 channels and nothing to watch.

[USALiberal]

46. ?? Then cancel! Nt

[Squinch]

19. Roku, baby!

[GigiLeigh]

20. whether people on this board have cable

or satellite or not is completely beside the point. I wasn't taking a poll on who has cut the cord. I was offering up a way to get FOX to quit using lies and propaganda to all the other people who have cable and satellite. I obviously didn't think anyone here was watching Fox regularly. I was suggesting we go after the cable and satellite companies since boycotting their advertisers doesn't work.

[smirkymonkey]

21. I don't have cable or satellite TV.

I'm not part of this particular problem.

[GigiLeigh]

22. Please read my comments

above. Do people not read comments. I'm really confused that you guys are not getting this. It's not about your cable it's about RWNJ's cable. Jeesh.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Perhaps The Point Isn't As Good As You Think It Is

Many people don't have cab/sat and many who do don't have any choice in how they get TV.
While streaming can be cheaper, doing it a la carte is somewhat clunky. And if one bundles enough streaming services it can still run up a serious bill.
You want me to cancel my cable because Faux gets $1.66 a month. I think that's a ridiculous idea.
I also think the suggestion is made in a sanctimonious, pretentious & pedantic manner.

[GigiLeigh]

25. No. I want

to pressure cable companies to put pressure on Fox to quit lying. This isn't a cut your cord deal. It's a campaign to pressure cable and satellite companies to apply pressure to Fox.

[MineralMan]

26. And so it does for msnbc. What's your point?

Fox news is blocked on my tv. Is it on yours? I'm sure I buy products advertised on FNN, too. They also advertise on networks I watch.

Your logic is badly flawed.

[MineralMan]

27. Are you affiliated with the link you posted?

That website is just collecting visitor information it can sell to others. Why would anyone fill out that form? All it would do is fill up your inbox with spam

[oasis]

28. Fox not in my cable package. Only have CNN&MSNBC for news. nt

[GigiLeigh]

29. I seriously don't get this

This is not difficult. Fox is blocked on my TV too. That is sure working. If I don't see Fox no one does./s That is your logic. For the last time this is in lieu of boycotting advertisers since that doesn't work for Fox because that isn't their main revenue stream. That's why their ads are My Pillow and commemorative coins.

This is about pressuring cable companies to tell Fox to cut the rhetoric or we will quit cable and satellite.

[MineralMan]

31. Oh, I think you get it just fine.

Please read my reply a little way upthread.

BTW, you just replied to yourself.

Also, I just checked and you have posted that same link multiple times recently, with cut and paste content from that site. Seems a bit wonky to me,somehow.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

32. No cable, no satellite, and Fox News is blocked on our computers.

[GigiLeigh]

33. I don't have an affiliation with them

Just thought it was something we could look into. Maybe they are not legit but the message is. Pressure cable and satellite providers. I thought we could as a group start a campaign of sorts to pressure the cable and satellite providers since boycotting Fox advertisers do not work.

[MineralMan]

34. You are replying to yourself again. See my other reply above.

[GigiLeigh]

37. how am I replying to myself

I'm replying to other posters. What are you talking about? Yes I have posted before about this because it seemed like a presure campaign against cable providers would work better than advertisers boycots. It seemed easier to copy paste. Sorry if this was the wrong thing to do but I really don't understand the hostility. I have read soooo many posts asking what are we going to do about Fox and its propaganda. I thought we could have a discussion about the cable providers who carry Fox.

If people complained enough maybe they could put pressure on them to stop the lies. I posted the link in case people wanted to look into it. I thought maybe they could help or at least people could learn more. I honestly thought this was idea worth pursuing but obviously it has offended everyone so I will not be posting it ever again. I was just trying to be helpful. Sorry it was perceived otherwise.

[AmyStrange]

35. I don't like Fox News, but...

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I do like their entertainment department, including:

The X-Files
Simpsons
Family Guy
Married With Children
etc. etc.
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[yellowdogintexas]

38. well there's another good reason to cancel the cable

Works for me

[bucolic_frolic]

39. I thought equal access was a matter of federal law

or at least it was 20 years ago.

I cut all TV years ago. No cable, no satellite. Zero dollars. I catch MSNBC, CNBC, BLoomberg, CNN online for free.

I did this in 2012. 9 years at about $72 a month. I think it's very nice. Off the top of my head that's 108 months and about $7,200.00
that they don't have, and I do.

[onenote]

44. Nope.Never.

[BobTheSubgenius]

42. A typically good news/bad news situation.

We don't get Faux included by default in cable packages in Canada. The downside is that we don't get MSNBC, either.

[IsItJustMe]

43. Time to cut the cable and find a good internet provider. Problem solved.

Hook your computer up to your TV thru HDMI or ethernet and stream.

[msfiddlestix]

45. Good tip. I cut the cord almost 15 years ago for this reason. I use Roku for streaming

But since the elections in November I subscribed to Hulu and then Sling for live streaming. I suspect but I don't know, the same thing is going on with these streaming platforms.

I intend to unsubscribe when the dust settles a bit, but I suspect that's going to take longer than any of us would dare to hope. In which case I might be feeding the beast of faux news corp longer than I intended, unfortunately.