News Corp Scraps Plans to Launch Fox News-Style U.K. Network

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News Channel has defied its many critics for a quarter century, surviving shocking internal scandals and weathering myriad controversies with its primetime hosts to become a profit-generating juggernaut for Rupert Murdoch. But there is no question that its traditional linear revenue base is shrinking, which is why Fox Corp.

was removed this week as chair of the House Republican Conference for taking a public stand against Trump over his lies about a “stolen” election, claims which have galvanized his supporters as well as members of the GOP.Cheney, who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan 6.

past work has involved not only his appearance in the Independent Spirit Award-winning L.I.E., but performing digital skits. He’s dressed as a Fox News reporter and done live shots from the front of the building, tricking the occasional would-be interviewee into a recorded chat.

NEW YORK -- Fox News Channel is creating weekend shows for commentator Dan Bongino and former U.S. Rep.

Fox News is reworking its weekend lineup this summer and, among other changes, adding shows from Dan Bongino and Trey Gowdy into the mix. The shows will launch the weekend of June 5.According to a Wednesday press release, Gowdy will host a 7 p.m.

Fox News is adding new opinion shows to its weekend lineup featuring Trey Gowdy and Dan Bongino. The network also is adding the panel shows The Big Saturday Show and The Big Sunday Show to its schedule permanently.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News Channel, which has been reworking large parts of its programming schedule in the aftermath of the 2020 election, said it would launch new weekend programs hosted by conservative firebrand Dan Bongino and former South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy.Gowdy will host a 7 p.m. program on Sundays while Bongino will lead a 10 p.m.

as part of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection incited by Donald Trump.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAfter devoting constant chatter to the 2020 election and the coronavirus pandemic, Fox News wants to make sure to talk about other subjects, including sports and weather.During an upfront presentation to ad buyers and clients Tuesday, executives from Fox News Media told Madison Avenue they intended to expand programming beyond the news of the day.

Kristin Fisher, who has been White House correspondent for Fox News since 2019, announced that she is leaving the network.

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new law on Thursday that places new restrictions on voting by mail and on the use of drop boxes, he was interviewed live on air by the hosts of Fox & Friends.

Caitlyn Jenner, a Republican whose campaign for California governor has elicited angry reaction from some members of the LGBTQ community, said Wednesday that “I move on” when it comes to her critics.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWalter Cronkite held forth from New York and Washington for CBS News. His heirs at a new ViacomCBS unit will do the same, while also monitoring Sacramento, Minneapolis and Dallas.The two executives named to head a newly fashioned division that combines the CBS local stations with CBS News and the team that manages the CBSN live-streaming news service offered their early vision for how the operation will function.

Tubi, the Fox Corp.-owned free streaming video service, plans to launch a full slate of original programming in the fall, including content developed by Fox Entertainment. The streaming service plans to unveil its plans and make its pitch to advertisers at its newfronts presentation next week.

Caitlyn Jenner, who announced her plans to run in California’s gubernatorial recall election, will sit down with Fox News’ Sean Hannity for an interview that will be telecast on May 5.

Wow. Rose McGowan has really gone off the deep end lately.

The three major cable news networks all saw viewership slide in April compared to the same month in 2020.

Manori Ravindran International EditorRupert Murdoch’s News UK has backpedaled on plans to launch a Fox News-style U.K. news channel.

replied to McGowan’s Twitter videos saying “they used you.” She also left Bruce’s audience with a last piece of advice, saying that “your personal freedom comes at the price of you realizing how you’re being controlled and where it’s coming from.” “I would make a list, your belief system, and figure out what part of it is organic to you and what part of it has been implanted in you by Hollywood or your leaders. We have to examine what we believe in and why,” she said.

Fox News filed another response to Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit, contending that its on-air personalities were protected by the First Amendment as they amplified President Donald Trump’s unfounded allegations of massive election fraud following the 2020 presidential election.