Tag: 21st Century Fox

Comcast announced Thursday it is pulling out of the bidding war with Walt Disney Co. for film and television operations of 21st Century Fox.

Steve Levitan, co-creator of ABC’s hit sitcom Modern Family, announced plans to part ways with 20th Century Fox on Tuesday amid growing criticism over the Fox News Channel’s coverage of immigrant children being separated from adults at the border.

Fox News vice president Michael Tammero slammed Seth MacFarlane for comments this week, in which the Family Guy creator said he’s “embarrassed” to be associated with the Fox network.

Arguably the biggest winner of Tuesday’s court case was a man who was not directly involved. That would be Rupert Murdoch, the largest shareholder of Fox.

Fox News reached an agreement Tuesday to settle a series of discriminations lawsuits brought by 18 former and current employees of the news network. 21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox News, agreed to pay nearly $10 million.

21st Century Fox reported lower third-quarter earnings due, the company said, to a lack of Super Bowl revenue.

Trump holds Murdoch in high esteem, frequently calling him for advice despite his criticism of the president on issues like illegal immigration. 

The European Commission raided the London offices of media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox as part of an investigation into a possible “cartel” involving sports broadcasting rights.

Several top conservative movement leaders are pressing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to intervene in a proposed Disney merger with 21st Century Fox over concerns that the resulting essentially monopolistic control of content creation in one company would produce even more “harmful and explicit content” inappropriate for children and families.

LONDON (AP) — 21st Century Fox has offered to insulate Sky’s news operations from the influence of Rupert Murdoch and his family to win approval of its bid to take over the London-based pay TV company.

ESPN seems to have found a working solution their well-publicized revenue problem: If more money is needed, buy some profitable networks.

U.S. witnesses, including Fox News anchor Kelly Wright, will speak to British lawmakers to give evidence on the ‘systemic corporate management problems’ at the news network which could influence the decision to allow a proposed takeover of Sky Plc by Twenty-First Century Fox.

Sky has warned it could shut down Sky News if questions over the Murdoch family’s influence on Britain’s media landscape impede its purchase by 21st Century Fox.

21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox Sports and FS1, just announced an uptick in earnings for both the fourth quarter as well as the year. With a significant portion of that growth attributed to sports. Meanwhile, over at Disney, ESPN continues to drag the brand through the mud with massive subscriber and financial losses.

Fox Sports 1’s Katie Nolan is either trying to force Fox to fire her, or is just disturbingly passionate about issues involving Sean Hannity and national surveillance.

Former Fox News Channel anchor Gretchen Carlson has settled her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the case that led to the downfall of Fox’s chief executive with stunning swiftness this summer.

According to the Drudge Report, embattled Fox News CEO Roger Ailes will step down from the network, but stay on as a consultant for its parent company 21st Century Fox until 2018. A subsequent Drudge headline reads: “Murdoch and Son to Address Newsroom This Hour About Changes.”

Jim Rutenberg, Ben Protess, and Emily Steel report at the NY Times: Executives at 21st Century Fox decided to end the tenure of Roger Ailes after lawyers they hired to investigate an allegation of sexual harassment against him took statements from

Several reports claimed that Fox News CEO Roger Ailes reached an agreement to leave his position at the cable news channel, then quickly retracted or revised the claim.

I think it’s virtually the whole of the Democratic establishment, including the Obamas, the Clintons, and their billionaire financiers, such as George Soros. These are the people who are plotting to take down Ailes. And if Ailes goes, I’m afraid, so could America.

The sharks are circling Fox News, much to the delight of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, David Brock, George Soros, and most Democrats. If they get their bite on Fox, it will be the American people who will be bitten — that is, we will be the losers, because we will lose the one TV-news voice that gives the right a fair shake.