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Old 08-29-2017, 01:07 PM
 
Location: Great Britain
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Apparently low audience figures mean it's not commercially viable.

Fox News had about 2,000 average UK daily viewers, even the the shopping channels get more viewers than that.

Sky stops broadcasting Fox News in UK - BBC News

Sky stops broadcasting rightwing US channel Fox News in UK | Guardian

Sky to stop broadcasting Fox News in UK after 15 years | The Independent



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Old 08-29-2017, 01:10 PM
 
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Apparently low audience figures mean it's not commercially viable.

Sky stops broadcasting Fox News in UK - BBC News
Brits have good taste.
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Old 08-29-2017, 01:20 PM
 
Location: Great Britain
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Guess we will just have to rely on the other news channels, as for Murdoch he's currently trying to buy all of Sky.

Fox’s Plan for Independent Sky News Fails to Convince Authorities | Variety

Rupert Murdoch's bid for Sky poses a dilemma for ministers - The Economist

The Guardian view on Murdoch's Sky plan: a blow to media plurality - Guardian
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Old 08-29-2017, 03:50 PM
 
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well as we all know it is really about Murdoch consolidating power. The whole reason the fired people is to help push through this take over. wait 6 months after it closes the buy/merger and FOX will be back to full on evil and sky will become fox lite...
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Old 08-29-2017, 03:52 PM
 
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Interesting that the issue was ratings, not ethics.
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Old 08-29-2017, 04:35 PM
 
Location: annandale, va & slidell, la
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Apparently low audience figures mean it's not commercially viable.

Fox News had about 2,000 average UK daily viewers, even the the shopping channels get more viewers than that.

Sky stops broadcasting Fox News in UK - BBC News

Sky stops broadcasting rightwing US channel Fox News in UK | Guardian

Sky to stop broadcasting Fox News in UK after 15 years | The Independent


Who cares? And who's heard of SKY? Fox spanks all the competition. That's all that matters.
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Old 08-29-2017, 04:37 PM
 
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Sadly, it shows that PT Barnum was correct in the USA....but that more worldly people just cannot watch that stuff - at all.

Over the years I have tried - many a time. I really can't watch it more than perhaps a minute because it's quite obvious what it is - one giant Dog Whistle. But even worse, it's not even a real one. They are doing it 100% for the money while it rots our country.

Just as we are letting the Russians have an out-sized influence, we certainly let a sensationalist soft porn King from Australia change us...

I see that as a terrible weakness.
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Old 08-29-2017, 04:37 PM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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How do we know this isn't fake news?

*the plot thickens*

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Old 08-29-2017, 05:22 PM
 
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Default Fox News being pulled from the U.K.

Hell, I could've told them that. The hayseed factor in the U.K. is far lower. Europeans are informed, urbane people as a whole.

Fox News pulled off the air in Britain - Aug. 29, 2017
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Old 08-29-2017, 05:24 PM
 
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So?



How many people qerr watching it there?


They have their own news stations
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