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What’s that coming over the hill…
Fresh reports of the coming of a Fox News business channel. Of course, Rupert Murdoch has been promising to get one off the blocks since 2004, but now he’s so serious he’s even cracking jokes: “…we have to recruit some money honeys,” chuckled Murdoch, referring to the now-trademarked nickname of CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo. Slate‘s…
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Making news pay…
In contradiction to the old nostrum that you can’t make money out of news, Fox News has just upped its income per subscriber, according to TV Week: Terms of the overall business deal were not disclosed, but Fox News has been receiving an average of about 70 cents per subscriber per month in recent deals.…
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Fox News Business Channel
Although you’re not about to see a Sky News Business Channel anytime soon, viewers in the U.S. will be getting an FNC-flavored biz channel eventually. And the LA Times carries the shocking prediction that Rupert Murdoch will buy venerable but redesigned biz paper, The Wall Street Journal, to help make this dream come true: Murdoch…
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Fox hunting
Entertaining post at Media Matters, picking up on Fox News host, Bill O’Reilly. During a discussion with a Fox News military analyst on his radio show, O’Reilly got a little carried away: I hate to blow my own horn, Colonel, but … on the night that Saddam’s statue fell … I said on the air,…