[Resettozero]

The plain fact is, there are not enough viewers to provide the commercial support required to do the job.

Disagree. More than enough potential viewers, but the ad buys would not be there because of the metrosexual advertising agencies and media buyers. Cable and satellite operators wouldn't be inclined to air the channel unless it were free. Probably not even then. And it's hard to make a dollar when you're giving it away for free.

[bert]

That is rationalization.

If there were enough viewers, the net work would exist.

Roger Ailes knows what he is doing and has produced the most conservative product economically possible. There can be no doubt about his conservatism.