Posted on 09/03/2025 6:50:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Murdoch and company were just doing this with YouTube and its sports coverage.
Rupert’s two ultra liberal sons now run Faux and have for 10 years.
I haven’t watched Fox News or any news programming on any platform since 2008 when Obama got selected.
Problem is pretty simple to describe.
Men are tired of being vilified by
woman run institutions.
I’m not defending Fox!
But most younger men have figured it out,
I did when I was younger.
Institutions run by women SUX!
Our society has elevated some very
sick women into positions of power.
Young men know that is un-natural and wrong.
We can fight with guys, but we can’t or
aren’t supposed to beat up girls.
How are we to deal with a Female tyrant?
So young guys quit playing the “game”.
Full disclosure;
Married to the same woman for 48 years and I dearly love my daughter, so I like girls.
Rupert Murdoch is a Democrat. He was a big friend/supporter of Hillary Clinton. Whatever Fox News promotes is a business decision, not reflective of his personal beliefs.
Which goes to show how bad the media is, Faux sucks too.
Well, they can’t count me as one of them. I get most of my news from Newsmax these days. I can’t stand the Murdoch’s anymore.
I cannot remember when I deliberately watched an entire news broadcast of any kind. I’ve seen bits and pieces in passing or in public places, but I don’t watch any of them
they simply covered the stories everyone else refused to and go all the watchers who wanted the real news instead of liberal propaganda.
Newsmax should make themselves again available for broadcast affiliates to air them - that would make it quite easy to get around this. But of course they wanted the subscription and carriage fees so they get money even when no one is watching.
You could spend hours a day watching highlights of all of the shows on these channels for free on their official YouTube channels...not really anything you would miss. Not live, of course, but that’s fine with me to not pay cable or satellite subscription fees.
Fox is a tabloid. Newsmax is only news. You can’t spend much time on the Fox website without coming across T&A.
I am with you. I hope Newsmax buries Fox.
newsmax is on plutotv (no charge) along with other conservative news like RAV
strangely pluto is owned by cbs
How do they get money from Pluto?
pluto is free streaming
dont know the financial arrangement between the channels and pluto
there are commercials so pretty much like broadcast except they have an on demand channel so you can pause for pottybreaks
I know it’s free. That’s why I wonder the business model.
Newsmax is about where FNC was in 1997. Newsmax has a lot of pre-recorded non-news related airings on the weekends, especially on Sunday, same as FNC did in the late 90s.
Princess Diana crashed in the Paris tunnel August 31, 1997. My cable system began carrying FNC in the summer of 1997. After the Diana crash they were almost all Diana programming over the long Labor Day weekend, only having a few short minutes of news updates.
The next 2 or 3 years FNC news basically went off air over the long Labor Day holiday period, airing all Diana life, marriage & death programs each year.
What are the competitive practices of each channel? Who knows...
Newsmax’s claims are based on history. During the 1980’s war between Jim Crockett Promotions and World Wrestling Federation (now WWE, part of TKO Group) for superiority in the pseudosport, WWE made a mandate to CATV and satellite companies for pay-per-views as Crockett was trying to enter the PPV wars. It came in Thanksgiving 1987. CATV providers were told they could not carry JCP’s Starrcade 87: Chi-Town Heat from Chicago if they wanted any rights to carry WrestleMania IV in April 1988. Providers were told to exclusively offer Survivor Series from Richfield, Ohio to get WrestleMania. It worked — Survivor Series destroyed Starrcade’s buy rate (7.0 vs 3.3),to destroy Jim Crockett Promotions, which had the better “wrestling” over WWE, was sold to Turner before the next Starrcade, moved to Christmas week, thanks to WWE’s mandates that made “northern” wrestling fake superior (when it wasn’t).
A second case of cartel tactics came in 2007 with NBCUniversal mandating CNBC be on basic tiers, requiring Fox Business to be on a premium tier of CATV systems.
So does Newsmax have a case? Are they required on premium when Fox is on basic? Is there a rule that Fox won’t let One America? Is this on par with WWE vs Turner?
And I want to know with the “In Defence of Charleston” scandal locally, they added MSNOW while dropping ABC and CBS while keeping the UPN and the ACC station. (You have to understand the history of the area - the alleged CBS station was planning to switch to UPN by August 1998, and the alleged ABC station replaced all programming with ACC programming during the winter.)
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