[RinaseaofDs]

You know what, these people are dead right. Murdoch is totally governing his empire around 'balanced'.

What Murdoch saw in the big 3 was 3 companies selling to the same market segment, the left. He came along, took the right and some of the middle, leaving 3 companies to fight for the core left.

Most conservatives don't consume the amount of TV that lefties do, demographically speaking.

Fox provides news to the righties, and mindless drivel to the left. Murdoch is a marketing genius.

[discostu]

He didn't head right with Fox the entertainment network, if anything he went left. He looked at the big three and saw that all the risk had gone out of broadcast TV, nobody was striking out for new territory, and programs were falling well within FCC guidelines for things like adult situations and language. Seeing room to grow he siezed it, started off with the Tracy Ulman Show which featured a little cartoon about an obese alcoholic father who isn't respected by his kids and regularly tries to kill one of them and never looked back (that cartoon of course later went on it's own and is still on the air, The Simpsons that is).

Married with Children
21 Jump Street
Stealing Arron Spelling (the man that perfected jiggle TV)

Fox has been risque and pushing the envelope on what you could do on broadcast TV from the start. It's a very amoral channel.