UN FOX News to Stop Airing in the UK - "Fox News is focused on the U.S. market and designed for a U.S. audience"

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/348409-fox-news-no-longer-airing-in-the-uk

Fox News will no longer air in the United Kingdom, its parent company 21st Century Fox announced, with its U.K. feed ending Tuesday afternoon.

"21st Century Fox has decided to cease providing a feed of Fox News Channel in the U.K.," the media giant said in a statement.

"Fox News is focused on the U.S. market and designed for a U.S. audience and, accordingly, it averages only a few thousand viewers across the day in the U.K.," it continued.

"We have concluded that it is not in our commercial interest to continue providing Fox News in the U.K."

Fox News has faced stiff competition in the U.K. from British-based news organizations including the BBC, ITV and Sky News.

In June, U.K. Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said a decision to approve 21st Century Fox's proposal to take full control of Sky TV wouldn't be made until it received additional review from Britain's Competition and Markets Authority. Currently, 21st Century Fox owns 39 percent of Sky TV.

The news comes as Fox News finished August as the most-watched channel on basic cable in the U.S. for the 14th consecutive month, according to Nielsen Media Research.
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It's natural that the Brits would prefer the BBC

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In expansion to what the OP refers to regarding Sky TV, it's currently a massive hurdle regarding 21st Century Fox's attempt to fully buy (it currently owns a minority but significant share in) the UK satellite television company Sky, that it's predecessor News Corp attempted to do in 2012:
Allegations of misconduct at Fox News have stalled the takeover of Sky, with opponents raising concerns about alleged racial and sexual harassment at the channel. U.K. Culture Secretary Karen Bradley is set to decide whether to refer the tie-up for a further six-month probe in the coming weeks. An initial assessment in June by regulator Ofcom cleared Fox as a fit-and-proper holder of broadcasting licenses yet raised concerns about “significant failings of the corporate culture at Fox News.”
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LulzKiller dijo:
In expansion to what the OP refers to regarding Sky TV, it's currently a massive hurdle regarding 21st Century Fox's attempt to fully buy (it currently owns a minority but significant share in) the UK satellite television company Sky, that it's predecessor News Corp attempted to do in 2012:
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Murdoch's still trying to get Sky? Christ.
 
NotAKitty dijo:
Murdoch's still trying to get Sky? Christ.
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Leveson only delayed him, in fact the semi-forced separation of old News Corp into 21stCF and new News Corp only made shareholders happier with Murdoch (they wanted to separate into two businesses for ages, but Murdoch loved his newspapers too much) and removed other barriers to the eventual acquisition (new News Corp subsidary News UK which owns the Sun and the Times), the ownership of other US entities like the New York Post and the WSJ.

People only remember the phone hacking, but the fact that 21stCF doesn't own the vast majority of the news outlets Murdoch owns really reduces the "monopoly" angle which Ofcom and the UK's Competition and Markets authority would reject this bid for.

Basically this move to stop airing Fox News only helps reduce the "sexual harrassment by Ailes" reason, which means this move will likely succeed.

Of course you and I wish it didn't, but Murdoch gets what he wants, especially with how he interacts with UK governments of either party. The one thing that really saved his arse regarding the phone hacking scandal on both sides was the fact that the accusation that he hacked 9/11 victims phones was unfounded. If it was true, the media landscape would be very different today.
 
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