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Trump eyes digital media empire to take on Fox News
Axios ^

Posted on 11/12/2020 5:29:35 AM PST by springwater13

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1 posted on 11/12/2020 5:29:35 AM PST by springwater13
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To: springwater13

Just buy OANN and Newsmax and merge ‘em. That would be a great start IMO.


2 posted on 11/12/2020 5:31:27 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: springwater13

Can Axios be trusted?


3 posted on 11/12/2020 5:32:23 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: V_TWIN

No need to buy them. Create a broadcast, cable, and internet service and host them.


4 posted on 11/12/2020 5:33:01 AM PST by captain_dave
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To: V_TWIN

Buy CNN from ATT and rename it the Conservative News Network.


5 posted on 11/12/2020 5:34:10 AM PST by redangus (N tgat)
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To: captain_dave; redangus

Both great ideas.


6 posted on 11/12/2020 5:35:54 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: springwater13

He needs to do a real network!!!


7 posted on 11/12/2020 5:36:21 AM PST by ontap
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To: V_TWIN

Just buy OANN and Newsmax and merge ‘em. That would be a great start IMO.


This.


8 posted on 11/12/2020 5:37:46 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: V_TWIN

The future is streaming. Also, if he can get just 5 or 10 million of his followers to subscribe to his MAGA channel, he will be making incredible amounts of money. $60 Million to $100 Million a month with very low startup costs.

Purchasing a cable channel or creating a new one will be very expensive and then you have to sell ads. That will be a probably for Trump as no sponsors will want to be associated with him. A Premium streaming channel solves that particular problem easily it’ll be ad free.


9 posted on 11/12/2020 5:37:51 AM PST by springwater13
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I would bet both OAN and Newsmax would offer Trump an equity stake in the network, rebrand it and start up the digital subscription side......

We’ll know in the next year how bad Fox News will be hurt if/when some of their key anchors leave.....Tucker, Laura, and Sean, throw in Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs and you would have a formidable line up for either OAN or Newsmax.


10 posted on 11/12/2020 5:38:09 AM PST by srmanuel (It)
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To: springwater13

Fox, since the kids took over, has not been the conservative network they were.

Should Trump buy a network, hire back Liz Wheeler!!


11 posted on 11/12/2020 5:39:12 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: springwater13

FoxNews was never good.


12 posted on 11/12/2020 5:39:13 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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The enemy was misidentified, perhaps deliberately so, to mischaracterize this as some kind of right wing infighting.

The enemy is not JUST (the current version of) Fox News.

It is much broader than that.

The enemy is all the Fake News.


13 posted on 11/12/2020 5:39:50 AM PST by zencycler
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President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the conservative-friendly network, sources tell Axios.

"Undermine?" More like underground! They wouldn't last a season.

14 posted on 11/12/2020 5:40:00 AM PST by Buttons12
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said a source with detailed knowledge of Trump's intentions. = gossip
15 posted on 11/12/2020 5:40:32 AM PST by SanchoP ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.")
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To: springwater13

He’s been unhappy with FOX for a long time


16 posted on 11/12/2020 5:41:23 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: srmanuel

I remember begging the anchors we love to leave FoxNews 10 years ago and start their own network. NOW they can.. with TRUMP.


17 posted on 11/12/2020 5:42:34 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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With these and a few other conservative resources and outlets, what Trump will “bring to the party” will not only provide formidable opposition to the near-monopoly the well-worn media and social networks have established, it will crush — absolutely annihilate — Rupert Murdoch’s duplicitous FOX network (as the MSM and Democrats/Socialists have no use for FOX) and will p*ss off “all the right people”.


18 posted on 11/12/2020 5:42:53 AM PST by glennaro (Pity those who mask and cower out of fear; condemn those who promote fear as a virtue)
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To: redangus

“Just buy OANN and Newsmax and merge ‘em. That would be a great start IMO.”

...I disagree. Give people choices. All the power of one network would be no different that the Executive Branch acting alone.


19 posted on 11/12/2020 5:44:43 AM PST by albie
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To: springwater13

Yeah - do it


20 posted on 11/12/2020 5:46:02 AM PST by 11th_VA (If the votes unfit, you must remit)
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