Posted on 08/19/2017 5:16:42 PM PDT by LS
With the firing, then death, of Roger Ailes, the departure of Bill OReilly, and the swirling rumors about Sean Hannity either leaving or being fired at Fox News, many conservatives flippantly insist that any one (or combination) of these and other conservative entertainers/news people could start their own network. Its certainly possible that the right combination of entertainers and capitalists could buy an existing structure and form it into a networkitself a mammoth undertaking, but not impossiblebut start one from scratch?
Its worth the time to recall how Fox News got to where it is today. In 1986 20th Century Fox television began operations, first with a Joan Rivers late night show (a failed undertaking that got her permanently banned from Johnny Carsons Tonight Show), then in 1987, with Married . . . With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show, then added a show a week on Sundays only.
http://bigleaguepolitics.com/impending-entertainment-news-realignment/
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They were not PC back then. It looks like they are trying to be just like CNN, now. I thought “Married With Children” was the funniest thing I had seen in a long time. Now the shows are all virtue signalling quota shows.
Very interesting, thanks! Huge business opportunity there.
Don’t laugh...perhaps Bannon hires Hannity?
Just as long as there are NO ED commercials....sheesh
From an alliance with OANN
“In Living Color” would be impossible today.
No, doesn’t make sense. If you have 100 lib channels, but only one conservative channel, it will dominate 50% of the market.
Now, there are NO conservative channels except OANN.
True! “Men on film”!
Noticed that too? I notice as places sell out, the quality of the commercials likewise declines.
Talk radio is the worst. I understand about the necessity of revenue — would be nice if corporate america weren’t so dominated and intimidated by liberal fascists.
How does one create a truly conservative station in this day and age? An enormous, untapped audience is there, but one still needs to turn a profit. Many potential advertisers, i.e. large corporations, are controlled by the anti-American, multi-culti/diversity spouting, no borders globalists, and those that aren’t, would be ostracized by the media.
CNN is for sale.
The barriers to a ‘conservative network’ are indeed huge.
FOX started when there wasn’t overwhelming cable control of programming. People watched the UHF channels.
It started by offering entertainment for Dem voters (young, female) that advertisers would pay extra for.
Tough road. Conservatives have a low value to advertisers ( old-fogey tightwads).
Big money advertisers are internationalists- not going to support nationalist programming.
Pressure groups are effective and will be supported by the competition.
OTOH there is a desire for ‘American’ programming.
2 big helps for him would be permissary cable ala carte regs and a First Amendment legal overthrow of ‘Community’ license renewal regs which allow any pressure group to legally blackmail stations and networks.
“Loose” control? Is it too tight?
I’d guess the path is a Netflix/Google hybrid: broker content AND provide better targeting of advertising.
Avoids all the regulatory barriers, heightens the value of the audience.
Looking forward to see what happens! I sure hope something does.
A group should take control of OANN and place it live on the internet for free. It’s easier to start with a working network than to start from scratch.
Have several open ad spots in each hour, let anyone broadcast the news network for free and let them run paid spots in the open ad spaces....but the ad content must be passed by OANN...NO PROPAGANDA.
Allow the same free use of the audio for radio listeners.
It would be worth a try to buy a channel on both DISH and Direct TV, these channels would best be in the clear...meaning that anyone with a dish and receiver could watch without subscribing to anything.... the sat providers would get both the purchase $$ and the free ad spots to sell. They could use the spots to pitch the purchase of a TV package.
It would take a big purse to operate such a network but the viewership would be phenomenal.
It is possible to successfully do such a thing.
No pretense at fair and balanced, pitch it as a counter to the constant propaganda on all other media.
I tend to lose interest when an article is loose with spelling and grammar. :-)
It’s odd how otherwise intelligent people can constantly spell simple words incorrectly.
My Dad, he was a smart man, always mixed up weak and week...lol
i.e. I was ill last weak and I felt very week.
“Newsweak” magazine would have looked correct to him... and in that one instance he would have been correct :-)
I tend to post using poor spelling...it’s my terrible typing skills and that damned auto-correct.
Same here. I associate such carelessness/ignorance with careless/ignorant thinking, hence the loss in interest.
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