MARK LEVIN: Is Fox about to implode?...

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[conservative98]

Is Fox about to implode?...

Mark Levin·Saturday, May 27, 2017 Its ratings are cratering. It has zero loyalty to its hosts. And the two lib Murdoch boys are calling the shots. Will its conservative audience put up with this latest abomination, I.e., Fox buckling to a Media Matters boycott of Hannity's advertisers?

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[FES0844]

Tucker, Dobbs & over to OAN. Done with Newsmax since Steve Malzberg no longer on at 7pm.

[Godebert]

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[Political Junkie Too]

I stopped watching FNC after its disastrous first GOP primary debate. I used to be a loyal viewer, using FNC as background noise. Now, repeats of The Big Bang Theory and Friends are on in the background.

-PJ

[TLI]

YEP.

www.oann.com/

It’s on the rise for sure.

.

[ExNewsExSpook]

To attract talent like O’Reilly and Hannity, OAN would need a major cash infusion. Charles Herring, the network's founder, is a wealthy guy, but (by his own admission), OAN runs on a shoe-string budget, using largely-unknown talent. And some of their footage is actually shot by other networks, and purchased by OAN under a pool arrangement.

Collectively, the current talent line-up at OAN doesn't make 25% of what O’Reilly was making at Fox. If you want to bring aboard someone like Bill or Sean Hannity, you're going to pay a premium price.

And, if OAN really wants to compete with the big boys, they need to expand their staff and coverage capabilities; that means attracting more investors who are willing to absorb the losses that will come until OAN reaches their new break-even point. From what I've read, Herring doesn't have the resources of Ted Turner at CNN’s start-up—and the network almost pushed him into bankruptcy before it began making money. And Herring doesn't have a huge media conglomerate (like News Corp) that can absorb hundreds of millions in losses before it moves into the black.

That's not to say it can't be done. OAN is attracting a loyal audience and viewership is on the increase. Ironically, Herring is following the original CNN model in building his network: straight news coverage, using anchors largely recruited from local stations. Bringing O'Reilly and Hannity on-board would be a quantum leap that would attract an even larger audience, but it would also drive up costs. If Herring decides to go that route, I think he can find the investors he needs. The irony is that Donald Trump would be at the top of that list if he hadn't been elected president.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“About?”

[Roobarb321]

I watch Dobbs, Varney, and Charles Payne on Fox Business... occasionally I’ll watch Brett when I need a little nap after dinner. The Five has been ruined for me when they moved (not that I was really that big of a fan, but they’ve over produced it for the new prime-time slot... and where is Bolling?)

[Beagle8U]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=satYwMwvIcw

[miss marmelstein]

Oh, I never liked the 5 - that annoying little Dana Perino. To be honest, at that hour if I’m home, I’ll watch the Food Network. I spend most of my tv time with the Food Network - although even that has gotten worse and worse.

[conservative98]

[miss marmelstein]

She’s cute but an anti-Trump.

[MinuteGal]

Thanks for your realistic analysis of OAN who everyone hopes will magically expand to conservative greatness.

However, let's face reality. For years the average conservative like me has plopped on the sofa five nights a week for a mostly-satisfying line-up of news, analysis, commentary and food fights on Fox which is 53% conservative in slant according to a past study...or it was, LOL.

We loved and hated O'Reilly...I miss him deeply even though I would nicely trash him regularly over the 19 years I've been on this board for his squishiness and fence-riding.

However, he changed this past year, and I found that I found nothing major to trash him about any more. He made a good, not total, but good turn to the right on all the issues I care about...and then, poof, he was gone....the evening line-up was somehow not the same without him....and the cowardly Morlock brothers didn't stand behind their star attraction, dumping him without ceremony.

My point is that if Fox destroys itself as its doing, people want to be able to pick up their clickers and switch easily to another conservative network channel such as an OAN channel as easy as clicking from Fox to CNN and vice-versa.

Most folks want to stay on that couch and click away. They don't want to have to pay for Direct TV or pay a monthly charge for another network not listed in their "packages" or with their local TV provider's channel agenda....just to watch OAN. And they certainly don't want to to sit at night on a hard chair for a couple of hours in another computer/office-type room to watch OAN on streaming computers.

In other words, a new conservative network would have to be easily available with no extra monthly charge to that average guy on the couch with a clicker in his hand....and I hope folks get what I'm pointing out here when they admirably keep pushing the admirable OAN.

I'm a pime e example.....if a conservative network is not available on my clicker, I'm not going to subscribe to it over and above.

Leni

[bray]

You don’t watch Libertarian Kennedy and her interviews of Ron Paul?

[MinuteGal]

Typo above, I'm a "prime example", not a "pime e" example.

Well, actually, you can pie me anytime.... chocolate cream preferrably....LOL.

Leni

[nopardons]

Knocked out of the park!

I don't want to have to watch something on my laptop, because then I can't USE it for anything else.

I do NOT want to use some stupid thing on the T.V. that I have to then pay for, on top of the cable bills.

I'm NOT getting a different server ( Direct T.V. ) just to watch one or three show/s which I may not even like!

If it isn't on cable, forget it...I'll just have to watch Hannity and Judge Jeanine and sometimes Watters and leave it at that, for now.

The stupid Murdoch boys have ruined FNC and they still aren't going to be able to buy SKY NEWS ( or whatever )because they're going to just keep on losing viewers and money and not least of all, prestige.

[truth_seeker]

If you like some of Fox material, here is an option:

Cut the cable. Subscribe to SiriusXM satellite radio (for a fraction of cable), one premium subscription. This allows multiple devices, such as smartphones, laptops, etc.

I listen to what I want, and haven’t watched TV in years for the most part.

Sirius caries Fox, CNN, Patriot, etc. Not OANN yet, however.

[nopardons]

Why would ANYONE, with more than 3 working brain cells, watch such unalloyed CRAP ?

[LS]

I have a piece coming out Tues in BigLeaguePolitics about the turmoil in the entertainment/news universe.

Fox has a “repurchase” stock price of $4.9b right now.

FILMS at Fox dropped by $1b last year, from $9.5 to 8.5b, but still comprise 31% of Fox revenue.

TELEVISION (including sports and FNC) grew very slightly (mostly due to sports) from $4.89 to 5.1b, but FELL as a share of Fox’s overall revenues from 19% to 17%.

Overall, Fox’s stock price dropped from $37.7 a share in 2014 to $24 in 2016.

Against this backdrop, the Murdoch boys are jockeying the news division. They can’t any longer subsidize it with Films. And sporting event fees-—MLB and NFL-—are rising. Fox’s biggest source of revenues is cable.

So if the Murdoch boys want to “leftify” FNC so they are more accepted at dinner parties, they can. FNC’s revenue loss would be a minimal cost.

Meanwhile, as I show in the piece, FNC came out almost a decade after Fox Television started. The path they used to roll this out was brilliant, starting just one, then two nights a week. Just think of that: to follow the same model a news organization would have to be solvent for ten years, or have enough capital to allow it to run for many years without a profit as it built share. FNC did not surpass CNN until 2002, 16 years after starting.

[miss marmelstein]

No, after a certain time of night, I stop watching tv news.