The article mentions the length of FOX News 's broadcasting in the UK, but, calling the news broadcast " Rupert Murdoch's right-wing US channel" and how SKY will stop broadcasting the channel after 15 years. While the article makes it clear it is not due to the controversy of Fox but not seeing any financial commercial gain from FOX News.
- His US media group, 21st Century Fox, announced it would withdrawn the controversial news channel from Sky packages on Tuesday but insisted that the decision has nothing to do with a potential investigation into the firm's bid to takeover the remaining shares of Sky plc – Sky's parent company.
- “Fox News is focuse d on the US market and designed for a US audience and, accordingly, it averages only a few thousand viewers across the day in the UK. We have concluded that it is not in our commercial interest to continue providing Fox News in the UK.”
Ofcome the broadcasters' regulator, made a series of rulings against the channel. The article states unlike newspapers, boradcatsers are expected to maintain strict impartiality and would be made to pay a fine if they knowingly "disseminate misleading information" which is the Ofcome code. Now, Fox had broken these regulations 22 times in the past 10 years and the channel Fox News has led it's parent company in hot waters as seven of those breaches were done by the news channel.
For me, many people have stated and made their discomfort their dislike towards the channel of Fox News and even tried a boycott of the channel. But what we fail to realise is that there are higher powers which make up these channels. 21st Century Fox owns Fox News and controls 39% of Sky stated in the article. This just shows those powers of institutions. Many would want Boycott Pepsi and not give in any money to them after their tragic ad with Kendle Jenner, but some fail to realise that PepsiCo owns many other companies Tropicana, Quaker or Frito-Lays' and the most grossing brand name Starbucks, and those who would want to stop drinking Pepsi may be still giving money to these other comapanes. So if those who like the idea of not having Fox news broadcaster would still be giving money back to 21st Century Fox by still using Sky or even watch their movies.
So, we can see it would be hard for audiences to dislike specific products or companies as many larger institutions own them and other companies which would have products used by these audiences. Institutions I think can be seen in this article to have a lot of power in terms of what they can take away and give back to them. Just because Fox news wont be airing doesn't mean they lose revenue.
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