Will FoxNews Use Its Viewers To Get More Money?

[Furtherman]

<p><a href="http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2006/09/25/0926bizfox.html" target="_self" name="tv5"><strong class="sbheadline"><font face="Arial" size="2">Fox News Channel May &quot;Unleash&quot; Viewers Against Cablers</font></strong></a><br /></p><p>Fox News Channel may call upon its viewers to help it achieve a fee increase from cable companies who currently pay it an average of 27 cents per subscriber per month. Fox is demanding $1.00 from the cable providers in upcoming contract negotiations. According to the <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</em>, Fox plans to yank the channel from balking cable outlets in hopes of &quot;unleashing the wrath of the channel's base of vociferous viewers.&quot; Tim Carry, senior vice president of affiliate relations for Fox News, told the newspaper the network believes that getting $1 per subscriber is reasonable, based on the performance of the channel. It is the only news channel that regularly is included among the top ten cable outlets, placing seventh in September, according to Nielsen Research figures released on Tuesday. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><font size="2">Wouldn't it be a glorious day if they pull their channel and then no one, or not enough rather, demands it back?</font><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"> <font size="2" /><font size="2"><p><font size="2">Do it FOXNC, and maybe this would work out for the best.</font> </p></font></font></font></font>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Furtherman on 9-27-06 @ 5:20 PM</span>

[DarkHippie]

<p>Fox news is making the mistake that its viewers could actually write the cable companies&nbsp; to unleash their wrath.</p><p>Maybe they can finger paint it in their own feces</p>

[PapaBear]

<p>Ugh. I hope they pull it from Direct TV. My mom has Direct TV with about a million channels. All she watches is Fox News. She has XM Radio. All she listens to is Fox News. She's 74 years old and bought a lifetime membership to the NRA because G Gordon Liddy said it would make her a better American.</p><p>The only time she's ever fired a gun was when she was in her 30's. She was trying to show her friends how the safety worked on my dad's 22. She shot the dresser.</p>

[tele7]

<p>&quot;dump it&quot;</p><p><img src="http://images.forbes.com/images/2002/09/13/gordon.jpg" border="0" /></p>

[Furtherman]

<p><a name="tv3"><strong class="sbheadline"><font face="Arial" size="2">Ailes Warns Personnel Changes May Shake Up Fox News</font></strong></a><br /></p>In a statement that likely caused shudders among some Fox News employees, Roger Ailes said Thursday that News Corp Chairman Rupert &quot;Murdoch didn't invest a billion dollars in this company so people can have jobs. ... He did it to WIN. ... He wants to win and so do I.&quot; Ailes made the statement in a company State of the Business Address, in which he also remarked, &quot;We cannot rest on our accomplishments, and I will continue to make changes.&quot; Separately Ailes told the Associated Press on Thursday that he intends to be &quot;dogmatic&quot; in pursuing rate increases from cable providers for the channel. FNC now reportedly receives about 27 cents per subscriber from the cablers and has asked for an increase to $1.00, The first contract to come up for renewal will be one with Cablevision Systems, covering primarily the New York City area, which expires on Oct. 7. All of the other contracts expire within the next two years. &quot;Our viewers have let us know that they don't want us taken off,&quot; Ailes told the A.P. <p>&nbsp;</p><p>What an ass.</p><p>Please let this blow up in their faces. </p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Furtherman on 9-29-06 @ 5:02 PM</span>

[cougarjake13]

<p>i never fox news, even if something catastrophic happens i usually just watch the reg news channels or cnn, and even though its only a dollar, i have no need to pay it when i never watch the channel</p><p>so i too hope this blows up in their faces</p>