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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox says Dish 'censoring' the news Fox personality makes claim in a commercial
"censoring what you see" now, this just makes my sides split with laughter......As Fox News enters its fourth week without carriage on the Dish Network, it is making a sensational new charge: "They're censoring what you see."
Bill O'Reilly says so in a new commercial that Fox began to televise over the weekend.
"Dish has dropped Fox News. Now you should drop Dish," O'Reilly declares.
The ad is a dramatic escalation in the war of words between the cable news channel, a unit of Twenty-first Century Fox, and Dish, the satellite company that delivers TV to 14 million households.
Dish declined to comment on Sunday.
Fox News and its sibling Fox Business Channel were blacked out in Dish Network homes on December 22 -- the latest in a series of contract disputes between Dish and various channel owners. The two channels have been missing ever since.
CNN and other Turner Broadcasting channels were blacked out for a month in November. The channels are back now.
Every minute of the day, Fox News has an average of 1 million people watching at home -- far higher than CNN's 400,000 viewers or MSNBC's 350,000 viewers.
During prime time, Fox's audience spikes -- O'Reilly sometimes reaches 3 million viewers at night. Fox routinely ranks as one of the most popular channels on cable.
Presumably, then, Fox has a lot of leverage in the dispute. But the blackout has dragged on for weeks, indicating that Dish is willing to alienate some of Fox's most loyal fans.
http://www.news8000.com/money/fox-says-dish-is-censoring-the-news-as-blackout-drags-on/30652638
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Fox says Dish 'censoring' the news Fox personality makes claim in a commercial (Original Post)
a kennedy
Jan 2015
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Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)1. Is there any
time of the day when FOX's professional propagandists--oops I mean anchors, don't act like everybody is out to get them?
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)2. Lol, we have Dish and couldn't be happier each time I see the notice: Fox has removed this channel
from your lineup!! I would paid more if we could have had that option long ago.
Actually as far as I know, it is a contract dispute. CNN was removed also for a while, another contract dispute.
Now we get other channels to make up for Fox, so we are very happy and hope they never resolve their issues, whatever they are.