re: #135 freetoken

I see people are reacting to Fox News co-president coming out in support of Ingraham, said co-president blathering on about censorship.

But my question to those who complain about Fox News is this: Do you watch the regular, OTA Fox TV network? How about the Fox Sports channels?

Because the money goes to all the same people.

So if some aspirin company pulls their ads from Laura’s show, but still pays Fox the same amount of money and their adverts show up on some other Fox show, does it really make a difference?

Murdoch doesn’t care what his viewers believe anymore than what his on-air personalities do. He just cares about taking in money.

Eh, yes and no. If the local baseball/basketball/hockey team plays on a Fox Sports channel, chances are part of that money goes to the team, at least indirectly (Fox Sports agreed to pay some amount of money to the team to broadcast their games, based in part on expected ratings, which in turn drive the ad rates they can charge). Same with Fox OTA, not every show on Fox broadcast is produced by Fox’s production company - so that money is going, again, in directly, at least in part to the production company and the people who worked on the show. Fox News Channel, however, is all in house, much more of that ad money goes to FNC and its employees (like Ingraham).

And, I don’t know the exact details of Fox’s corporate structure, but I’m guessing there’s multiple subsidiaries within the empire so if one subsidiary under performs the others, perhaps that will spur some change in the under performing business.