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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

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.

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.

Where I live, in the Senior complex, we can only have Comcast, we have asked for OAN but nothing seems to be moving in that direction, I do however have it on my computer and it works okay from there...just news, none of the programming they do...

While helping the past month with my daughter and packing up to move again, she has DirecTV and have watched it and there are some really good programming on there...

They had an hour program on ISIS, scared the heck out of me, they don't fancy up their programs, what you get are cold, hard, truthful facts...we need to see more of that to get people off their butts and start getting people motivated to save this Country...President Trump can't do it all by himself...