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Trump Allies Explore Buyout of Conservative Channel Seeking to Compete With Fox News
Wall Street Journal Online ^ | 01/10/2020 | Juliet Chung, Corrie Driebusch and Rebecca Ballhaus

Posted on 01/11/2020 10:07:30 AM PST by Tench_Coxe

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To: Ikemeister
s the unavailability of the channel on most cable providers.

That's the future for any non leftist news source--TV or radio. If they can cower the Hallmark Channel and push Chick Fil-A and Nike around at will, won't they soon tell Comcast and others to get rid of all conservatives--right now.?

21 posted on 01/11/2020 10:52:18 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,nron-citizen voting & leftist me"dia news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Some $$$ to polish it up, plug in an internal real time streaming app, subscribe for 3 bucks a month or 25 a year. They would have 10 million subs in a year.


22 posted on 01/11/2020 10:56:19 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Tench_Coxe

FWIW,

Take a look at most Channel line ups on Cable.

I’m on Cox Cable.

Fox is Channel 72
CNN is 71
70 is HLN (Headline News) which was CNN’s premiere channel years ago but is now crap with NO real News.
69 is the Weather Channel
68, CNBC
67 is MSNBC
And it falls off from there.

I would Buy HLN and change the programming to a Conservative News Channel.

I would also look to buy any number of the Online Shopping Channels like QVC or HSN.

They are all part of the Basic Cable Subscription package and would provide maximum exposure.

Think about, if QVC’s programming where changed to a Conservative News channel, What can Cox or Comcast do about it?


23 posted on 01/11/2020 10:59:26 AM PST by Zeneta
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To: Tench_Coxe

If Trump did daily Q&A’s and only allowed them to be broadcast on this channel, it would be #1 news network overnight.


24 posted on 01/11/2020 11:01:24 AM PST by BusterDog
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To: Tench_Coxe

“according to people familiar with the matter”

typical media rumor-mongering, though it would be nice if this rumor was actually true ...


25 posted on 01/11/2020 12:04:03 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: dowcaet

“When the president leaves office in 2025 I can see him running this network.”

indeed. I wonder if he’d name it something like “Trump Network News” ...


26 posted on 01/11/2020 12:05:48 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: tennmountainman
Find a way to get Tucker, Hannity and Ingraham and it would be a Gold mine
I heard that Tucker chastised the President for killing Salami...Bye Tucker.

After Laura's disgusting attempt at interviewing the President by interrupting and being rude and snarky...Basically calling him a liar on wage growth and immigration, she can go suck rocks.

She treats that liberal dick-head she trots out all the time with more respect, even sometimes flirtatious.

Hannity the master at interrupting isn't much better. His message is perfect. Everything else including his fawning over Geraldo is unwatchable.

He even had the low life guts to interrupt Ollie North the other night mid sentence.

My vote is for none of the above on OAN.

27 posted on 01/11/2020 12:12:35 PM PST by lewislynn (STOP SUPPORTING CHINA AND ANTI-AMERICAN GLOBALISTS! DO IT NOW!)
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To: lewislynn; flaglady47
Ditto everything you said.

Leni

28 posted on 01/11/2020 12:21:08 PM PST by MinuteGal (MAGA !!! MAGA !!! MAGA !!!)
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To: Ikemeister
An influx of cash with a little fresh talent would help.

That was my thought.

Trump buying the network would be a bad idea. The network would lose credibility.

If a group of Trump’s friends and supporters bought in to the company giving it a huge cash infusion to improve on-screen talent and on screen properties for a more professional look that could get the network on more cable systems.

But if at all possible leave the controlling shares with the present owner for the sake of appearances.

29 posted on 01/11/2020 12:46:15 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: lewislynn

Cannot disagree with any of your points.


30 posted on 01/11/2020 1:09:52 PM PST by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I don’t care who owns it, just keep the girls there.


31 posted on 01/11/2020 1:11:44 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft ( #ReasonableDemocratsforTrump. Where are you?)
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To: lewislynn

“My vote is for none of the above on OAN.”

Hannity would be a good anchor. Despite his delivery, he’s one hell of a soldier.

Then bring on Lou,Jesse,Payne,Varney.

Tucker is dead to me. Who the hell does he think he is. Same with Gaetz.


32 posted on 01/11/2020 1:55:01 PM PST by pghoilman (Earth First. We'll drill the rest of the galaxy later.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

The way Fox is heading, someone should get something for conservatives …

and on bloombburg.. Don’t think he’s known much outside of NH and therebouts… not so sure he can beat Trump....


33 posted on 01/11/2020 2:40:00 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: frnewsjunkie

If you actually ever watched Fox news instead of studying Trump coverage antiFox Free Republic dogma, you would know that fox has more coverage including the President alone than all the rest put together

I can’t understand why you have turned on the President merely to bolster your own self esteem by whining about FoxNews


34 posted on 01/11/2020 2:52:19 PM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: JonPreston

I just subscribed three days ago and LOVE it.
Best $4.99 a month value!


35 posted on 01/11/2020 2:54:47 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: TBall
I like OAN just the way it is.

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Me too....

36 posted on 01/11/2020 2:55:58 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: Tench_Coxe

I’d like to see the Trump allies start another news network so that we have yet another alternative to compete with all the left wing news networks out there. There’s room for more than one or two good news outlets.

I’d like to see OAN expand and improve, Fox News go back to what it once was, and have this new news network to go along so they become the “big three” in the news business.


37 posted on 01/11/2020 3:07:58 PM PST by CrosscutSaw
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To: bert

You’ve lost your mind, bert… I am a Trumper from day one and I have not changed... just love him more than ever....

Don’t ever think I would dump on our President...

No matter what they think of the NY billionaire and his chances.. Our only chance for survival is Pres Trump!


38 posted on 01/11/2020 3:29:15 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Tench_Coxe

A takeover of OAN by a group who values the TRUTH, would be invaluable.

The Pioneer Young people who now hold all the news spots have done a great job, by learning, advancing and all out giving people of good intent some HOPE.

None of us wants a news service that TAKES ONE SIDE, BUT...BUT we certainly do not need a service that takes the opposite side.

Sadly, I think OAN needs some cleaning up. Verbal mistakes are made, news items just merge into the next story without a break to indicate that one story is done and another is beginning, pronunciations are pretty bad, but they all seem like such great young people.

They need experience and direction and it could become the sine qua non of broadcasting.


39 posted on 01/11/2020 3:44:35 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: ckilmer

When President Trump completes his 2nd term as President, I want him to start a news network and name it TNN.

Then offer airports all kinds of deals to break with their CNN contracts.

And especially important will be TNN International. God knows the rest of the world could really use some balanced, not Leftist news that is currently spewed thorough the world!


40 posted on 01/11/2020 4:04:31 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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