Interesting. I had the impression that Fox was now available through cable anywhere cable was available. I am very familiar with the CBC, CTV and the CRTC. I am Canadian born, but have been a US citizen for 30 years. Still have family there and visit fairly often. Family hates the CBC... after all, as long as they are getting taxpayer money from government, especially a liberal one, they will never be "fair and balanced".
I subscribe to Rogers cable. By bundling services, including broadband and digital cable, I was able to get a discount and wound up paying about the same, including the converter box, as I was previously paying for them as separate services.
But, of course, Fox is not avaiable on the ordinary analog cable service to which most people subscribed until recently. I switched to digital specifically to get Fox and I have it programmed as the station that comes up when I turn on the set.
There is a difference between digital service and High Definition service. The High definition service needs a much more expensive television set and the converter box rents for twice as much. This is not needed to get Fox News.