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Fox Corp. posted a strong September quarter including a 12% pop in sales to $3.05 billion, beating Wall Street forecasts and fueled by a 17% uptick in ad revenue, citing continued growth at Tubi, the return of a full schedule of live events at Fox Sports and more scripted programming at Fox Entertainment — all versus last year when the industry was still staggering under Covid.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe round-table show “The Five” has proven to be one of Fox News Channel’s most durable properties. And yet, after a decade on air, the late-afternoon program can still surprise even the most veteran executive at the Fox Corp.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorRupert Murdoch’s 90th turn around the sun was feted on Thursday night in New York City as power brokers, longtime lieutenants and family members, with a conspicuous absence, gathered at Tavern on the Green for a long-delayed dinner celebration.Murdoch, one of the most influential media barons of the modern era who is executive chairman of News Corp.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRupert Murdoch launched Fox News Channel in 1996, and the anchors and hosts of some of its most popular programs will now have a permanent reminder.Fox News on Wednesday renamed its “Studio M” in honor of the elder Murdoch, who continues to work as chairman of parent company Fox Corp.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMark Evans will take over sports ad sales for Fox Corp.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMyPillow, the direct-response sleep-support company led by entrepreneur Mike Lindell, has made a new bed for itself on Fox News Channel.A national commercial for MyPillow was spotted on Fox News Thursday, roughly two months after the company disclosed that it had sought to pull all of its advertising from schedules on the Fox Corp.-backed cable-news outlet.

MacFarlane told Jimmy Kimmel on Monday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” when teasing the short. “Because I looked around and I saw everyone else at Fox Corp.

SEC filings Friday, is due to base salary pay cuts spurred by the pandemic. Rupert Murdoch brought in $34 million the year prior, while Lachlan’s pay was at $29.1.

Fox Corp., which earned a shout-out from President Joe Biden for its firm Covid-19 policies, will now require daily tests for the “small number” of its employees who remain unvaccinated.

Fox Corp.’s entertainment division has closed its acquisition of TMZ from WarnerMedia, confirming that founder and managing editor Harvey Levin will continue with the newly situated company.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorFox Corp. aims to rev up the tempo of its digital news, sports and lifestyle offerings now that the company has completed its acquisition of TMZ from WarnerMedia at a price tag estimated at around $50 million.Fox has acquired all of the company behind the daily syndicated TV shows “TMZ” and “TMZ Live,” which have aired on Fox’s O&O stations since they debuted in 2007 and 2011, respectively.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorSeven years after he signed off as host of “The Tonight Show,” Jay Leno is ready to dive back into the daily TV grind as emcee of “You Bet Your Life,” a revival of the classic quiz show hosted for years on radio and TV by Groucho Marx.Leno’s edition of the durable game show bows Sept.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSeth MacFarlane may be critical of Fox Corp. as a whole, but the broadcast network arm of the company is confident he and his hit comedy “Family Guy” will be with the network for years to come.“‘Family Guy’ is part of the Fox DNA,” Michael Thorn, Fox Entertainment’s president of entertainment, told Variety.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSnap has hired Claudia Teran, a 21-year legal veteran of Fox Corp., as VP, deputy general counsel and global head of commercial.At Snap, Teran will report directly to general counsel Mike O’Sullivan and lead the company’s commercial legal team, which supports nearly all deals with outside partners.

Fox Corp. has come in as the lead investor in a $100 million Series A fundraising round for blockchain platform provider Eluvio.

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Fox Corp.’s free streaming service Tubi and Fox Sports are teaming to launch “Sports on Tubi” in the U.S.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News said it has helped to evacuate four Afghan freelancers and their associates — 24 people in all — as part of a larger move by media organizations to secure an exit from the country for nationals who have helped their on the ground efforts in the region.In a memo to staffers on Sunday, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said the company, part of Fox Corp., had “evacuated three Afghan nationals who formerly served as freelance associates, as well as an Afghan

launch its streaming service, CNN+, in the first quarter of 2022. The move into streaming is highly anticipated given CNN has lagged behind competitors Fox News — which has three different streamers — and MSNBC in this space.

Fox Corp. closed its fiscal year with a solid performance in its fourth quarter, beating Wall Street revenue and earnings forecasts.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Corporation said profit rose in its fourth fiscal quarter as advertisers ramped up spending as conditions of the coronavirus pandemic eased and it secured new revenue from distributors.

President Joe Biden name checked The Walt Disney Company, Netflix, Google, Fox Corp. and other private companies for instituting new vaccine requirements for their employees.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe nation’s big TV companies are calling for a new yardstick.A trade organization representing Disney, ViacomCBS, NBCUniversal, Fox Corp.

she will leave Fox News.McHenry’s lawsuit, originally filed in 2019, alleged that her “Un-PC” co-host, George “Tyrus” Murdoch, harassed her. The lawsuit cited inappropriate behavior on Murdoch’s part, including sexually charged text messages that he used to threaten her if she kept “being negative.”In the 2019 suit McHenry sued Murdoch, Fox News, parent company Fox Corp.

MyNetworkTV on Tuesday revealed its 2021-22 TV schedule, adding Chicago Fire to a lineup that already includes Dick Wolf and Universal TV franchise staples Chicago P.D. and Law & Order: SVU as well as fellow NBC series Dateline.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterFox Corp. has brought on a new head of communications.

Fox Corp. Tuesday named Brian Nick Executive VP and Chief Communications Officer. He’ll be based in Los Angeles and report to chairman-CEO Lachlan Murdoch.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDavid Katz, executive VP of digital at Fox Sports, will leave the Fox Corp. division this fall after three years.Katz is departing to return to ThePostGame, the digital sports content and marketing agency he founded in 2007 and previously ran before joining Fox Sports in September 2018.

Fox Corp. has completed its upfront sales process, with CPM gains across its linear and digital portfolio in the range of 20%, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

posted a recording of the phone call in which Fox 26 assistant news director Lee Meier let Hecker know she should not return to the station and was suspended “pending further review,” but leadership would be in touch with her.On Monday evening, Hecker announced during a live shot that she believed her bosses were “muzzling” her and had provided recordings to the right-wing activist group. “I want to let you the viewers know that Fox Corp.

Fox Corp. streaming service Tubi has made a deal with Cohen Media Group to put 80 of its film titles on the free, ad-supported platform.

ratings darling Tucker Carlson in a recent interview with Business Insider, and called Carlson’s comments about coronavirus vaccine “brave.” Tucker has in past episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” said that young, healthy people don’t need the coronavirus vaccine, alleged Dr. Anthony Fauci helped create COVID-19 in a lab and coronavirus vaccines kill people.

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.

Outkick Media, a sports-focused digital media brand that gained attention in the years after its founding in 2008 by relentlessly attacking ESPN, is being acquired by Fox Corp.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Corporation said profit in its third fiscal quarter rose owing to increases in value of some of its outside investments, even as overall revenue fell due to comparisons with 2020, which contained a Super Bowl and a red-hot news cycle focused on the Trump administration and the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.Revenue fell to $3.22 billion, compared with $3.44 billion in the year-earlier period.