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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

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.

The state of play: Some Trump advisers think Fox News made a mistake with an early call (seconded by AP) of President-elect Biden's win in Arizona. That enraged Trump, and gave him something tangible to use in his attacks on the network.

"He plans to wreck Fox. No doubt about it," said a source with detailed knowledge of Trump's intentions.

With loyal viewers and longtime dominance, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch said on a Nov. 3 earnings call:

"We love competition. We have always thrived with competition. ... Fox News has been the number one network, including broadcast networks, ... from Labor Day through to Election Day."

Here's Trump's plan, according to the source:

There's been lots of speculation about Trump starting a cable channel. But getting carried on cable systems would be expensive and time-consuming.

Instead, Trump is considering a digital media channel that would stream online, which would be cheaper and quicker to start.

Trump's digital offering would likely charge a monthly fee to MAGA fans. Many are Fox News viewers, and he'd aim to replace the network — and the $5.99-a-month Fox Nation streaming service, which has an 85% conversation rate from free trials to paid subscribers — as their top destination.

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cancelyourcable; defundfox; deletefox
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To: springwater13

“Instead, Trump is considering a digital media channel that would stream online, which would be cheaper and quicker to start.”

Digital media ‘streaming online’ is great for the liberals in the cities, but the rural areas have no broadband. Good luck getting liberals to watch.


21 posted on 11/12/2020 5:46:22 AM PST by Beagle8U ("Chris Wallace comes from the shallow end of the press pool.")
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To: springwater13; ontap; flaglady47; Peter W. Kessler; entropy12; Bob Ireland; Trump Girl Kit Cat
Won't work, President Trump. Folks want to kick off their shoes, lie down on their sofas, relax and click on a conservative cable channel as easily as they can click on Fox, CNN, and/or MSNBC.

All this "digital" and "streaming" and "subscription" stuff will connect with some folks, but not the masses.

Leni

22 posted on 11/12/2020 5:47:04 AM PST by MinuteGal (MAGA !!! MAGA !!! MAGA !!!)
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To: springwater13
He plans to wreck Fox. No doubt about it

Fox is accomplishing that on its own.

23 posted on 11/12/2020 5:47:32 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: springwater13

Win (or lose) the election, Trump is going to beat his media enemies (FOX) like a drum. Some time ago (it’s been a while), Don Jr. was talking about an alternative to the enemedia so “Trump heads” & have been thinking about/working on this issue for a while already. After the major backstabbing FOX has been doing for the last 2 years or so (the mask was totally ripped off & it became blatantly obvious to even the FOX-a-holics during the election coverage), I think Trump will be very inclined to “do something”, and I’m sure it will be a ‘humdinger’.

People who ‘go against’ Trump end up paying for their treachery one way or another ... call it the “Trump Curse” or “Trump Karma”. It will work against the enemedia too - FOX is proving to be a good example thus far, with ratings crashing.

Good article from Nolte on the extent of how badly FOX has shot themselves in the foot ... maybe both feet ... ok, maybe fatally, in the head:

Nolte: Bret Baier Deletes Tweet that Exposed Exploding Backlash Against Fox News
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/11/09/bret-baier-deletes-tweet-exposed-exploding-backlash-fox-news/


24 posted on 11/12/2020 5:48:43 AM PST by Qiviut (Fox "News": Unfair, Unbalanced & Unhinged. #Foxit)
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To: springwater13

No way. The deep state will proclaim it racist and deny all access and licensing.


25 posted on 11/12/2020 5:50:04 AM PST by KobraKai
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
FoxNews was never good.

I never liked their news broadcasts. They do too much teasing. Sometimes they even say that a story that piques your interest is "coming up," and then after you wait through a raft of annoying ads for My Pillow and other products you don't want or need, they don't bring up the story, so you have to wait through another raft of annoying ads. I have seen broadcasts in which they never show a story that they announce is "coming up."

26 posted on 11/12/2020 5:56:02 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Beagle8U

Basically, for rural distribution Trump needs to negotiate carriage rights on Dish Network and DirecTV as a $5.99 premium channel add on for those that want it. Pretty much anyone rural who has no broadband has satellite tv because there’s nothing else available.

Premium channel access on Dish/DirecTV along with the streaming access for everyone else who has broadband will do it.

This is the best way to go as any Trump branded cable TV channel simply won’t make money as Trump is persona non Grata with advertisers. The liberals will boycott and riot on any Trump advertiser. Ad-free subscription is the right play. Trump is a businessman. He’s not stupid.

Now, a lot of his supporters won’t pay $5.99 a month for his channel but he doesn’t need 73 Million to subscribe to make a killing. He only needs 5-10 Million and I think he can get it.


27 posted on 11/12/2020 5:58:50 AM PST by springwater13
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

Fox died with Charles Krauthammer.Smart people are just board.


28 posted on 11/12/2020 6:00:07 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: V_TWIN
Just buy OANN and Newsmax and merge ‘em. That would be a great start IMO.

The problem would be advertisers. None of the big woke corporations will advertise on a Trump channel. They already don't advertise on Tucker Carlson's show, which is Faux's highest rated show.

29 posted on 11/12/2020 6:05:31 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: springwater13

FOX news has been playing Conservatives for at least 15 years. I always cringe when I hear a conservative say they trust Fox news.


30 posted on 11/12/2020 6:10:33 AM PST by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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To: springwater13

this opportunity to scoop up the Right - with a better platform than Parler, a replication of what Fox once was - is an obvious one for the Trump empire to contemplate. may it happen!


31 posted on 11/12/2020 6:12:42 AM PST by avital2
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To: springwater13

I suspect that ‘media’ in some form is in Trump’s future... say in about 5 years. In the meantime, I don’t think it any accident that Steve Bannon has set up The War Room which is really quite impressive... and he just has barely got it off the ground. https://pandemic.warroom.org/

Frankly, I like the options and would be totally against the suggestions here of merging Newsmax and OANN.... I want to see them both do well.


32 posted on 11/12/2020 6:14:32 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: springwater13

“Pretty much anyone rural who has no broadband has satellite tv because there’s nothing else available.”

No they don’t. They may get 1-2 network channels and have a slow speed internet, but no broadband or satellite dish.


33 posted on 11/12/2020 6:15:30 AM PST by Beagle8U ("Chris Wallace comes from the shallow end of the press pool.")
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To: Beagle8U

Elon Musk’s StarLink will solve that problem.


34 posted on 11/12/2020 6:16:02 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: springwater13
President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the FORMERLY conservative-friendly network, sources tell Axios.
35 posted on 11/12/2020 6:21:09 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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This sounds nice, but getting carriage on national distribution systems is not easy—and he will be an Ex President when this happens. And the question would be, “why would he do this?”

And he is already a billionaire in a business that he “knows” and has not managed in 4 years.

I think if he loses he goes back to being “the Donald.”

I don’t think he owes “us” or the “country” anything. Who needs the crap? Certainly he has better things to do.


36 posted on 11/12/2020 6:22:30 AM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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To: springwater13

Fox wrecked itself, just watch the coming ratings.


37 posted on 11/12/2020 6:30:11 AM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: Vermont Lt

No offense, but can you please stop peeing on every positive effort?


38 posted on 11/12/2020 6:32:19 AM PST by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union, then we became them." - 2005, my quote. I never knew how prescient I was.)
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To: springwater13

Conservative friendly? Ha What a joke!


39 posted on 11/12/2020 6:33:55 AM PST by RobertoinAL
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To: Vermont Lt

Like the MSM, you don’t understand real Americans or Trump. You are a tome deaf moron.


40 posted on 11/12/2020 6:34:38 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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