Australia set to get a Fox channelFollowing on from rumours that Fox International are set to launch a channel in Australia comes a significant number of job ads placed to staff up. Let the speculation begin, writes Dan Barrett.
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Barrels of laughs at new conservative comedy channel
Just in case Fox News wasn’t amusing enough, a new conservative entertainment channel called RightNetwork launched in the US yesterday, with Frasier star Kelsey Grammer as its public face.
Sports, TV and anti-siphoning laws: tripe for the picking
Major sporting organisations claim that anti-siphoning laws are bad for viewers, Foxtel argue it would be bad for sporting codes to have their sports shown to as many people as possible, and Rupert Murdoch is threatening to force his US cable rivals to pay him for carrying his Fox TV network.
Fox Nation: The seedy underbelly of Murdoch’s empire?
Fox News’s blog site was touted as a site that said “‘no’ to biased media” — but it has proven to be anything but, says Karl Frisch.
The death of American Idol
In troubling news for the Fox Network, the two final nights of American Idol were among the least watched since the program started eight years ago.
Flogging US Idol to death
TV viewers in Australia think our commercial networks milk their successful programs to the point of annoyance. But compared to Fox, ours are rank amateurs.
So crazy it could work: what about another commercial TV network?
With his internet monitoring policy in tatters and not going forward, Senator Stephen Conroy needs a new idea. Here it is: Give the country a fourth commercial TV network, writes Glenn Dyer.
Peter Chernin’s golden (diamond-encrusted, platinum-gilded) parachute
Even Rupert may difficulty defending paying his COO remuneration of US$147 million, a termination payment of at least US$29 million and a six-year motion picture agreement while News Corp shares plummet, writes Adam Schwab.
Never mind the WSJ, what about The Simpsons?
If the 35 members of the Bancroft family have been concerned that selling their beloved Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch will negate the newspaper’s integrity, they need look no further than The Simpsons to put their minds at ease.
