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    Eddie Munster now works for the Murdoch Mob

    Murdoch family launches a new Fox; former House Speaker Paul Ryan joins company’s board
    Meg James
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    Murdoch family launches a new Fox; former House Speaker Paul Ryan joins company’s board


    Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has spun off various television assets — including the Fox News Channel and Fox broadcast network — to form a new company that will be known simply as Fox Corp.

    The spinoff completed early Tuesday is part of a multi-pronged process that will culminate with the $71.3-billion sale of the rest of Murdoch’s entertainment company to Walt Disney Co. The company announced that it had finished the process of issuing shares in the new Fox Corp. to investors of 21st Century Fox.

    Fox announced its board members, including former U.S. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.). Other board members include Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Anne Dias, Chase Carey, Roland A. Hernandez and Jacques Nasser.

    The new Fox is now “a standalone, publicly traded company,” the company said. Its shares are listed on the Nasdaq market; Tuesday marks the first day of trading.

    The 88-year-old mogul from Australia and his family decided in late 2017 to break up their entertainment empire, and Disney was Murdoch’s preferred suitor. The Disney portion of the deal is expected to be complete late Tuesday night when the Burbank entertainment giant swallows the bulk of the Fox assets.

    The new incarnation of Fox is a slimmer version of the old Fox.

    Its assets include Fox News Channel; Fox Business Network; two national Fox Sports channels, FS1 and FS2; the Fox Broadcasting network; and Fox’s group of television stations, including KTTV Channel 11 and KCOP Channel 13 in Los Angeles.

    The reconfigured Fox Corp. will emphasize live programming, with NFL prime-time games on Thursday nights and WWE's "Smackdown" on Fridays. With a growing number of viewers watching scripted dramas and comedies on a delayed basis, Fox is seeking to have more commercials that reach consumers with greater immediacy.

    The network’s entertainment chief, Charlie Collier, has said Fox will remain in the scripted-TV business, taking ownership stakes in the new series it buys from outside suppliers and developing its own properties. Fox has negotiated deals with Disney to keep the network’s signature animated shows “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy” and will continue to develop new series in the genre.

    Fox News will also be a critical piece of the new company as it generates more than $1 billion in annual profit thanks to growth in cable and satellite subscriber fees and ratings that make it the most-watched channel behind the broadcast networks. Although Fox News has seen advertisers resist buying commercial time on the shows of its provocative conservative commentators, the network’s audience is still valued by Madison Avenue because 90% of its viewers watch live.

    Fox also is holding onto the historic studio lot on Pico Boulevard in West Los Angeles, where the mogul’s oldest son, Lachlan Murdoch, 47, is based.

    The stock for the new company opened Tuesday at $39.48 a share and stayed within that range during the early hours of trading.

    The spinoff comes amid high anxiety on the Fox lot in Los Angeles because of the anticipation that more than 3,000 jobs will eventually be eliminated as part of Disney’s consolidation of the remaining Fox assets, two people familiar with the matter said. Most of the affected positions are in Los Angeles.

    Fox alerted the employees whom it planned to retain in December. Disney has already identified key executives who will make the switch but must still decide in the coming days and months who will be integrated into the expanded company.

    Disney is buying the 20th Century Fox movie and television studios with their rich vault of titles, including “Modern Family,” “The Simpsons,” “Avatar” and “Deadpool.” The goal is to ramp up a programming pipeline for a new streaming service, called Disney+, that the company plans to launch later this year.

    Other Fox assets going to Disney include the FX and National Geographic channels, international television assets, including Star India, and Fox’s 30% stake in streaming service Hulu, which will give Disney the controlling interest in that growing business.

    Disney must sell the 22 Fox regional sports networks, including the YES network in New York, which broadcasts Yankees baseball games, and Prime Ticket and Fox Sports West in Los Angeles. Disney wanted to buy the regional channels, but the U.S. Justice Department would not allow that. In order to gain regulatory approval of the deal, Disney agreed to divest the regional sports channels.

    Disney has 90 days to sell the regional sports channels but would like to identify a buyer within a month, according to a knowledgeable person who was not authorized to comment.

    Fox Corp., whose ticker will be Fox, will be added to the Standard & Poor’s 500 index before trading begins Tuesday.

    The Murdoch family will continue to control their publishing company, News Corp., which includes the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and Times of London. The family also will become major shareholders of Disney.

    The Murdochs stand to receive nearly $12 billion in cash and stock from Disney, according to Bloomberg
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    He won't last. Ryan hates to work while complaining the poor don't break their backs for capitalism enough. Ryan is a slouch, a tool who loves the tool of Koch dick in his grubby mouth. Ryan has no social skills (at least that is required at Fox), no insights, nothing to offer. Second thought, he is perfect for the job.
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    Who watches any of these news channels anymore. Everyone on any of them anymore is a lame ass.
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    Exactly.

    Just like the sports networks...there are a bunch of them, and the "talent" (if you can call it that) is really getting watered down. Most of the time the actual story takes a back seat to the personality reading the prompter.

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    I hate the fact that most of the Seahawks games air on the Fox Network, because their NFL hosts Joe Buck & that dipshit ex Dallas QB Aikman are both unrepentant Seahawk haters.

    On the other hand, I can at least get a decent picture on the local Fox affiliate with my crappy antenna, so I'd rather the games were there than on ABC or NBC. Just as long as they don't Disney up the games

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    I dislike the sound of Buck's voice and don't watch football anyways.

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    NFL blows.

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    All you know is that you live in Cleveland

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    Broken record much?

    Alleged superior intellect, same ol' shit.

    Yawn.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FORD View Post
    I hate the fact that most of the Seahawks games air on the Fox Network, because their NFL hosts Joe Buck & that dipshit ex Dallas QB Aikman are both unrepentant Seahawk haters.

    On the other hand, I can at least get a decent picture on the local Fox affiliate with my crappy antenna, so I'd rather the games were there than on ABC or NBC. Just as long as they don't Disney up the games

    Joe Buck blew somebody to get on TV and Aikeman is a brainless mullet douche...
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    Quote Originally Posted by twonabomber View Post
    Broken record much?

    Alleged superior intellect, same ol' shit.

    Yawn.
    That made me laugh. Even you cannot make an argument for living in Cleveland.

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