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Fox Corp. CFO Talks Potential Rivals to Fox News
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 12/8/2020 | Etan Vlessing

Posted on 12/08/2020 4:30:39 PM PST by marcusmaximus

"We feel super confident about Fox News being able to compete in any environment going forward," Steve Tomsic said at an investor conference.

Fox Corp. chief financial officer Steve Tomsic has a warning to outgoing President Donald Trump or anyone else looking to launch a new conservative cable news network to cut into Fox News' audience share.

Loyal viewers and longtime dominance are tall hurdles to taking on the Goliath of the conservative news world.

"We don't have a hubris bone in our body, so we don't take lightly the potential for competition, whether it's the existing sort of classic MSNBC or CNN, or the sort of emerging ones like Newsmax and OANN," Tomsic told the UBS Global TMT Virtual Conference during a session that was webcast.

Trump-friendly Newsmax and One America News Network say they have picked up disaffected Fox News viewers as the president takes to Twitter to urge his fans to switch channels. And after the recent U.S. presidential election, speculation has grown about new conservative media players launching a news network to rival Fox News.

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


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To: RummyChick

We are done with Fox. Our go to is now OANN.


61 posted on 12/08/2020 5:27:40 PM PST by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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To: marcusmaximus

I prefer America’s Voice over Newsmax and OAN.


62 posted on 12/08/2020 5:28:28 PM PST by bertmerc1 (Conservative Buddhist)
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To: hsmomx3; All

Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson

Here’s the story: ⁦
@gregkellyusa
⁩ is already beating ⁦
@marthamaccallum
⁩ in the ratings.

It’s time for Martha the NeverTrumper to update her resume on LinkedIn. She’s toast

https://mobile.twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1336477980848164864


63 posted on 12/08/2020 5:28:49 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

64 posted on 12/08/2020 5:30:15 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: marcusmaximus

Wallace comes on I go off.


65 posted on 12/08/2020 5:32:45 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: marcusmaximus

” Loyal viewers and longtime dominance are tall hurdles to taking on the Goliath of the conservative news world.”

Two things wrong with this: 1st “loyal viewers” have abandoned Fox News in droves (over 50% income cases). 2nd, the reason they abandoned Fox News is because Fox News, with a few exceptions, is not a conservative network any more and since Ailes left has been on a steady downward trend to be just another liberal media. Their coverage of the election and it’s aftermath was the last straw for former loyal viewers.

Tomsic is blowing smoke just like Fox has been blowing “conservative” smoke for years.


66 posted on 12/08/2020 5:34:07 PM PST by falcon99 (qu)
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To: marcusmaximus

Just to have to make a public statement shows how they have been weakened.


67 posted on 12/08/2020 5:34:42 PM PST by MHT
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To: marcusmaximus

Wow... He just put Newsmax and OANN in the same sentence as CNN and MSNBC. Ignore the rest of his nonsense... that says it all!


68 posted on 12/08/2020 5:34:50 PM PST by VA is for Freepers
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To: Texas Eagle
Dobbs had a well spoken ballot adjudicator from Detroit on today who said she alerted the Michigan GOP the moment she saw shady activity taking place but they completely ignored her.

one more reason that I despise the Republican Party. If Trump starts a new party, the insiders in the R party are going to be shocked at how many people switch.

69 posted on 12/08/2020 5:36:57 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: glimmerman70

Tucker runs hot and cold on MAGA. Hannity is boring and won’t let his guests talk. Laura thinks she’s smarter than Trump. I have not missed any of them since November 3.


70 posted on 12/08/2020 5:39:28 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: griswold3

You are exactly right. News is on the Internet. By the time it makes it to TV it’s not news anymore.


71 posted on 12/08/2020 5:40:26 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: Freee-dame

Hey. Here is a little known fact. Did you know that hannity practices martial arts. Lmao.


72 posted on 12/08/2020 5:41:09 PM PST by glimmerman70
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To: timestax

They are not the main stream media. They are the Marxist media. We MAGA supporters are the main stream of America. Dem voters are the elite and the government dependent (some welfare and some wealthy). .


73 posted on 12/08/2020 5:45:39 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: glimmerman70

You’re joke about Hannity is actually funny. It is just boring when he says it over and over. Who could possibly listen to his radio show for more than three minutes?


74 posted on 12/08/2020 5:46:58 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: marcusmaximus

Kelly let FOX and Chrissy Wallace have it today big time. I enjoyed that.


75 posted on 12/08/2020 5:49:35 PM PST by dforest (RATS are criminals and frauds. Hide anything that belongs to you. They will steal it.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Translation: “We have Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Lou Dobbs locked up to long term contracts so we’ll survive”.


76 posted on 12/08/2020 5:52:57 PM PST by vigilence (Vigilence)
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To: vigilence

Ingraham’s contract expires next year. I think Fox will dump her and give Tucker another hour or expand Fox News at Night to 2 hours to cut costs.


77 posted on 12/08/2020 5:55:45 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: Freee-dame

The infotainment industry exists to train the public in “govern mentality”. Fox used to be different. Now they’re included when the Parroting montage of sound byte Instructing us how to adopt the mentality desired by the government So we can be good citizens.
Sorry, Murdoch, I can think for myself.


78 posted on 12/08/2020 6:03:09 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: elpadre
So we turn our backs on Tucker, Hannity, Laura, Maria Bartilona, Fox and Friends, Lou Dobbs, Levin, Watters, and the several other conservative voices who have been so faithful to POTUS??

Think of them as the baby in the dirty bathwater that's getting thrown out.

I know it will be hard on them financially but they would be better off at an ethical news outlet which FNC is not; at least not anymore.

79 posted on 12/08/2020 6:04:08 PM PST by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches. Leftism is a toxic moral pestilence.)
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Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson

It’s hard to say which unpopular news figure from
@FoxNews
will find their contract not renewed first, but my guess is
@marthamaccallum
.

Her Twitter account claims 680k followers but she can’t get 200 people to “like” her tweets. That suggests her audience has disappeared.

7:36 PM · Dec 8, 2020·Twitter for iPad

https://mobile.twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1336484957838041090


80 posted on 12/08/2020 6:15:30 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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