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TopicWhy don't TV providers drop Fox News?
Antifar
03/28/21 4:56:03 PM
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Fear of pissing off Fox viewers.
https://fair.org/extra/with-a-la-carte-cable-pay-for-what-you-watch/
Part of the explanation would seem to be fear of the Fox audience. One industry source quoted by Adweek (10/3/11) put it, The viewers are completely convinced that it is the one thing that stands between our tenuous grip on democracy and total chaos and dictatorship on the left. This fact has not gone unnoticed by Fox. News Corp head Rupert Murdoch (Australian Financial Review, 11/5/10) once boasted that the nature of the Fox audience meant his company could play hardball with cable distributors:

We said to the cable operators when we put the price up, we said, do you want a monument to yourself? Cancel us, you might get your house burnt down.

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