The fact that Fox News Channel’s Dana Perino was chosen to question Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg last week speaks to Perino’s growing role at Fox, and a sense that sources are trusting her as an honest broker of information.
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel’s Laura Ingraham returned to work with defiance Monday, denouncing a “Stalinist” effort by liberals to stifle the free speech of conservatives and promising […]
Despite its down-the-middle news brand, the network trails rivals Fox News and MSNBC in viewers and weathers daily attacks from the White House as critics bemoan a “clash model” of staging partisan debates that’s now “outmoded.”
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Ralph Peters: Why I Left Fox News
Ralph Peters:”As I wrote in an internal Fox memo, leaked and widely disseminated, I declined to renew my contract as Fox News’s strategic analyst because of the network’s propagandizing for the Trump administration. Today’s Fox primetime lineup preaches paranoia, attacking processes and institutions vital to our republic and challenging the rule of law.”
While the Trump era has been a boon to cable news in general, Fox News finished 2017 as the most-watched basic cable network in both primetime (with an average of 2.4 million viewers) and total day (1.5 million), according to Nielsen ratings. And Fox’s website, long neglected under former leader Roger Ailes, emerged as a powerful complement to its broadcast partner.
Fox News Channel has hired Jeff Paul as a West Coast correspondent. Beginning April 23, Paul will be based out of FNC’s Los Angeles bureau and report to Nancy Harmeyer, […]
Cable TV news was a big growth area, with ad revenue up 13% in February. MSNBC showed the largest growth, up 44%. CNBC was also up significantly, ahead 39% percent, but that includes some Olympic programming.
1968 TV News Foretold Today’s Coverage
The chaos chronicled in the current era of 24-hour coverage on cable and the web is still no match for 1968, when TV brought political assassinations, street riots and a brutal guerrilla war into America’s living rooms. The extraordinary confluence of events riveted the nation and made anchors such as Walter Cronkite more influential than ever, helping to shape the current TV news business. At the same time, the polarizing issues covered in 1968 created a hostility toward the media that reverberates half a century later.
Fox News Channel launches the third season of the historical docu-series Legends & Lies on Sunday, March 25, at 8 p.m. ET. Hosted by Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade, this season, Legends & Lies: The […]
John Bolton, the next national security adviser, was a longtime commentator. He’s the latest TV personality to go from the small screen to the White House.
The purchase of the No. 1 weather news network is the latest acquisition by Allen’s Entertainment Studios. The price is estimated at $300 million.
Ralph Peters, a retired U.S. Army officer, said he told Fox News Channel at the beginning of the month that he did not want his contributor contract renewed because he believed Fox had “degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.”
CNN is launching a new virtual reality experience for Oculus Rift. CNN VR has been available on Android and iOS for Samsung Gear headsets and Google Daydream. Adding the Oculus Rift headset brings the VR experience to the desktop, at high resolution.
Fox News Channel will present a second edition of The Wise Guys: DC Edition on Sunday, March 18, at 8 p.m. ET. Moderated by former Education Secretary Dr. Bill Bennett, co-panelists include: retired […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News anchor Shepard Smith has re-signed a multiyear contract with the network. 21st Century Fox and Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch announced the contract […]
CNBC senior contributor Larry Kudlow is tapped to replace Gary Cohn, who announced last week he would step down as director of the National Economic Council after he opposed the president’s plans for new trade tariffs.
The parents of murdered Capitol Hill staffer Seth Rich are suing Fox News for emotional distress, claiming its coverage of the crime painted their son as a traitor and has prevented them from properly dealing with his death.
President Trump may trash major TV news networks as “failing” and “fake news,” but the first year of his presidency has been a bonanza for their businesses. Advertisers increased their spending on television news programming 8.7% to $4.074 billion in 2017
