Saddest day In NewZealand TV History (Faux News is coming)

[brettdale]

"I cant cancel my subscription either, because its the only company that provides pay tv, and if you take one news channel you have to take them all"


SKY Television today announced that it will expand its stable of news channels with the launch of Fox News Channel on the 1st December 2006. Fox News Channel will be available to SKY subscribers as part of the SKY Digital Start Up Package on Channel 57.

Fox News Channel is the highest rated news channel in the United States and the fastest growing news channel in the world. The channel will offer New Zealand viewers live news from the United States and around the world, 24 hours a day. Feature prime time programming includes The Fox Report, The O'Reilly Factor, and On The Record with Greta Van Susteren.

John Fellet, SKY Television CEO, says, "Fox News Channel will be a worthy addition to SKY’s news and factual channel line-up which currently includes news channel services BBC World, CNN, and SKY News Australia New Zealand. The new channel illustrates the broad range of programming alternatives we continue to deliver to our subscribers.”

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[Chipper Chat]

1. Pssssst! Mr Fellet: I gots news for you:

Fox News is NOT, I repeat, NOT a NEWS channel.
It is a RIGHT-WING PROPAGANDA channel!
Tell New Zealanders the TRUTH!

[brettdale]

3. Thats what i told them

http://www.sky.co.nz/index.cfm?pageid=460

JOHN FELLET
Director and Chief Executive

Mr Fellet joined SKY as chief operating officer in 1991. He was appointed as chief executive in January 2001 and as a director of SKY (pre-merger) in April 2001.

Mr Fellet holds a BA degree in Accounting from Arizona State University, USA and has 25 years’ experience in the pay TV industry, including ten years’ experience with Tele-Communications Inc. in the US.

[jeff30997]

2. We don't get that disgusting pollution in Canada...

And I'm so glad!

[maine_raptor]

4. You may have to take them, but do you have to watch them?

That's what the channel block is for.

[brettdale]

6. True

We dont have channel block though, but I dont have to watch it, its just awful that people here will be hearing that right wing drivel.

[demobrit]

5. Faux news, an alternative but not to be taken seriously in UK

In the Uk we have access to BBC News 24, Sky News, CNN International, Fox News, Algazeera English, Indian News Channels, Euro News, and Chinese CCTV news.
We have choice and the launch of Algazeera English has brought another perspective to the information that we in the UK can have.
So long as you have a freedom of choice then channels like Fox news have a much lesser influence on opinion.