Sky say bye bye to fox in the UK

[Kizzy]

Rupert Murdoch is to stop broadcasting the rightwing US channel Fox News in the UK after 15 years.

His US media group 21st Century Fox announced it would withdraw Fox News from Sky in the UK on Tuesday saying that it no longer sees the service as commercially viable.

The decision comes as Karen Bradley, the culture secretary, is set to return her verdict on whether to ask the competition regulator to launch an investigation into the Murdochs’ adherence to broadcasting standards in the UK as part of a probe into Fox’s £11.7bn takeover bid of Sky.

Sources say the decision to stop broadcasting Fox News, which goes off air from Tuesday at 4pm, is not connected to the takeover bid, arguing that the channel attracts very few viewers in the UK, about 2,000 a day.



https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/aug/29/sky-to-stop-broadcasting-rightwing-us-channel-fox-news-in-uk

[Crimson Dynamo]

hey, i watch it for weather news

:oh:

[Northern Monkey]

You can get numerous live streams on Youtube anyway of most news channels

[Brillopad]

Rupert Murdoch is to stop broadcasting the rightwing US channel Fox News in the UK after 15 years.

His US media group 21st Century Fox announced it would withdraw Fox News from Sky in the UK on Tuesday saying that it no longer sees the service as commercially viable.

The decision comes as Karen Bradley, the culture secretary, is set to return her verdict on whether to ask the competition regulator to launch an investigation into the Murdochs’ adherence to broadcasting standards in the UK as part of a probe into Fox’s £11.7bn takeover bid of Sky.

Sources say the decision to stop broadcasting Fox News, which goes off air from Tuesday at 4pm, is not connected to the takeover bid, arguing that the channel attracts very few viewers in the UK, about 2,000 a day.



https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/aug/29/sky-to-stop-broadcasting-rightwing-us-channel-fox-news-in-uk

More left-wing shut-down of free speech. :nono:

[Jack_]

More left-wing shut-down of free speech. :nono:

Yes that well known left winger Rupert Murdoch is shutting down free speech by removing an American news network from a UK satellite service

:laugh3:

[arista]

hey, i watch it for weather news

:oh:

Good Job I get it Online
and Foxbusiness news.


I will now ask John Malone again....

[michael21]

This is good news


Utter bliss

[Greg!]

Didn't even know you could watch it here

[arista]

Didn't even know you could watch it here


Why would you need to know
it was ch509
I am OK about as I have Professional Online feed
plus Foxbusinessnews on one on my Desktops

[arista]

More left-wing shut-down of free speech. :nono:


No its due to the USA
takeover of BskyB (the guardian does not all the data)
some of us were aware this was going down......

[JTM45]

The less of anything to do with FOX in Europe the better. They're joke 'news'. The TV 'News' version of the Sun or the Daily Star.

Good riddance!

[DemolitionRed]

More left-wing shut-down of free speech. :nono:


More like not enough gullible viewers in the UK to make it pay

[Smithy]

Yes that well known left winger Rupert Murdoch is shutting down free speech by removing an American news network from a UK satellite service

:laugh3:

:joker::joker::joker:

[Scarlett.]

Ohhh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[T*]

You made me almost think my Rick and Morty channel was taken away from me
He owns sky now anyway so do the maths :/

[MTVN]

Just shows that for Murdoch business comes before politics. He's not so wedded to any political viewpoint that he will push it regardless of its popularity

[arista]

You made me almost think my Rick and Morty channel was taken away from me
He owns sky now anyway so do the maths :/


Yes T*
Rupert does own a large amount of Share's
he had pre-warned some folks
so its not such a shock .

The Simpsons

[arista]

[QUOTE=JTM45;9595911]The less of anything to do with FOX in Europe the better. They're joke 'news'. The TV 'News' version of the Sun or the Daily Star.]

Point of order
Star Paper is owned by King Desmond

This forum was freezing
it took 30mins to do this post???

[Vicky.]

More left-wing shut-down of free speech. :nono:

Yes that well known left winger Rupert Murdoch is shutting down free speech by removing an American news network from a UK satellite service

:laugh3:

Sorry I know this is SD but genuinely laughing at this :D

[smudgie]

So basically he is shutting it down to help his case in catching bigger fish.
Hopefully he doesn't get the right to do so.:fist:

[Kizzy]

Just shows that for Murdoch business comes before politics. He's not so wedded to any political viewpoint that he will push it regardless of its popularity

I thought you were clever?... Murdock is politics

[user104658]

Just shows that for Murdoch business comes before politics. He's not so wedded to any political viewpoint that he will push it regardless of its popularity

I thought you were clever?... Murdock is politics

Hmm. It's not so much that business comes before politics - or that Murdoch is politics - it's that for a man like that there is nothing but business. Politics *IS* business, and business is everything. His political leanings and bias will bend whichever way best suits market trends, full stop.

[Kizzy]

Which is why socialist leaders like Corbyn are so terrifying, business is good, corrupt cartels are bad.

[Northern Monkey]

Hmm. It's not so much that business comes before politics - or that Murdoch is politics - it's that for a man like that there is nothing but business. Politics *IS* business, and business is everything. His political leanings and bias will bend whichever way best suits market trends, full stop.

True dat.He'll point his sails whichever way the wind blows.