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.
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said Twenty-First Century Fox’s proposed takeover of Sky is “not in the public interest” and could block the acquisition.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch recently stated his belief that Facebook should pay publishers on their platform, “similar to the model adopted by cable companies,” while at the same time attacking both Facebook and Google for the rise of “scurrilous news sources.”
U.S. counterintelligence officials cautioned Jared Kushner that Chinese-American businesswoman Wendi Deng Murdoch could be using her friendship with him and wife Ivanka Trump to further Chinese government interests.
Author Michael Wolff claims in his new White House tell-all Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, that nearly every member of President Donald Trump’s senior staff accused him of acting ‘like a child.’
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch called President Donald Trump a “fucking moron,” according to author Michael Wolff’s much-hyped White House tell-all Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
The just-announced mega-merger of Disney and most of Fox is only about one thing: the cold, hard fact that streaming television is not only the future of entertainment; it is the only future of entertainment.
Disney’s expected takeover of large parts of the Fox media empire could make Fox’s prospective purchase of Sky News in the UK more likely, experts have claimed.
The pro-cheap, foreign labor organization New American Economy, funded by billionaires Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg, is behind the year-end push on Capitol Hill to give amnesty to potentially 3.5 million illegal aliens in the United States.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is helping to lead the effort in Congress to lobby the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to continue de facto amnesty known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian nationals.
Shares in media-entertainment giant 21st Century Fox surged to seven-month highs Friday after news it has been holding talks with at least three potential buyers for some of its television and film operations.
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.
Britain’s Guardian newspaper reports a new ruling by the government broadcast regulator Ofcom has set back hopes by the Murdoch family’s hopes to see Fox News take over Sky.
The arrest of Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on corruption charges impacts the billionaire investor’s many business associates throughout the world.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has warned of “private monopolies” in British media becoming like “state monopolies” such as the BBC, as Rupert Murdoch vies to take control of Sky News.
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said it would be assessing the proposed Sky takeover by Rupert Murdoch, as the acquisition could leave too much of Britain’s media in the hands of too few people.
The Guardian has reported on the comments of Deputy Labour Leader Tom Watson who has written to the competition watchdog urging it to refuse the Murdoch takeover of Sky.
According to reports from a private employee meeting held in Los Angeles on Wednesday, ESPN President John Skipper fired back at those he views as ESPN’s detractors. Specifically, Skipper harshly criticized President Trump, rival media boss Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, and Clay Travis of Outkick the Coverage.
Billionaires Rupert Murdoch and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have come out strong for an amnesty plan that could grant U.S. citizenship to more than three million illegal aliens and their family members.
LONDON (AP) — The British government will refer Twenty-First Century Fox Inc.’s bid for satellite broadcaster Sky to the country’s competition regulator for further examination, in a blow to Rupert Murdoch’s takeover plans. Culture Secretary Karen Bradley told lawmakers Tuesday
MSNBC contributor John Heilemann said on Monday that Breitbart News is more powerful and influential than Fox News when it comes to influencing elections. “Breitbart is a more powerful media institution and a more powerful media institution on the right than Fox News,” he said on Hardball.
The UK’s Guardian states Rupert Murdoch’s Sky television is to stop broadcasting Fox News in the UK. It reports: Rupert Murdoch is to stop broadcasting the rightwing US channel Fox News in the UK after 15 years. His US media group
Washington Post columnist and editor Eugene Robinson observed this week that Breitbart News captures the essence of President Donald Trump’s voters better than “squishy” Fox News.
Dance with the one that brung ya. Fox News and Wall Street Journal boss Rupert Murdoch has reportedly “repeatedly urged” President Donald Trump to kick White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon to the curb.
Media mogul and Fox News CEO Rupert Murdoch urged President Donald Trump to fire Steve Bannon, according to a New York Times report.
A group of globalist White House advisers and generals have apparently teamed up with establishment Republican leaders in Congress to form a “Committee to Save America” alliance. Though their purported aim is to “protect Trump and the nation from disaster,” these self-styled saviors might be better named “The Committee to Betray President Donald Trump’s Voters.”
The Wall Street Journal and its publisher Rupert Murdoch appear to be using President Donald Trump’s national security adviser H.R. McMaster as their latest weapon in their continuing battle against Trump’s America-first agenda and movement. The Journal, by mimicking Joe Scarborough and attempting to marginalize Trump’s nationalist advisers, is subtly trying to take over Trump’s presidency for the GOP establishment that Trump resoundingly defeated over and over and over again.
When it comes to elitism, the Sun Valley conference that Jared Kushner is attending this week is worse than Davos, according to MSNBC anchor and Wall Street expert Stephanie Ruhle.
Physical editions of the Wall Street Journal will no longer be available in Europe as the business and finance newspaper beats a retreat from print outside the U.S.
Heat Street, the center-right news outlet owned by Rupert Murdoch, is to be “restructured” under the MarketWatch brand, according to a report.
Britain’s government stalled Twenty-First Century Fox’s takeover of the Sky pay television and broadband network Thursday after regulators said the deal could give Rupert Murdoch and his family too much influence over the country’s media.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government stalled Twenty-First Century Fox’s takeover of the Sky pay television and broadband network Thursday after regulators said the deal could give Rupert Murdoch and his family too much influence over the country’s media.
Fox News is no longer “Fair and Balanced.”
Pollster and political strategist Pat Caddell responded to breaking news of former Fox News head Roger Ailes’ death on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily.
Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report has announced that Roger Ailes, former CEO of Fox News, has died at 77 years old.
Fox News executive chairman Rupert Murdoch will host a company-wide meeting Wednesday amid internal turmoil at the network and threats to its ratings dominance from MSNBC.
Bill Shine, who served as co-president of Fox News after Roger Ailes’ ouster, will part ways with the cable news network.
Sean Hannity took to Twitter Thursday afternoon to warn of a “total end of the Fox News Channel as we know it” in the wake of a report that suggested Fox News co-president Bill Shine lacks support from the network’s top brass.
Fox News Channel owner Rupert Murdoch and his family are considering pulling The O’Reilly Factor off air amid accusations of sexual harassment against prime time host Bill O’Reilly, according to a report from Gabriel Sherman in New York magazine.
For about the thousandth—or is it the millionth?—time, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal has attacked Donald Trump. But this time there’s a twist. The Journal’s latest hit-piece targets Trump’s top advisers, Stephen K. Bannon and Stephen Miller, both champions of the populist nationalist policies that propelled Trump to victory.
