Hey there, welcome to my Follow the News website! Throughout this year, we will be following Fox News, analyzing the website and other forms of media. We will be analyzing things, from a variety of articles on Fox News to the actual columnists who write them. So lets jump right in! I hope you find my site interesting and enjoyable.
Fox News History
Fox News was created by Australian producer Rupert Murdoch to compete with CBS, NBC, and ABC as a fourth marketing force. To do so, Murdoch purchased 50% of Fox Filmed Entertainment in July of 1985. Throughout the years, with the success of his fourth network in the United States, Murdoch announced on January 31, 1996, that News Corp. would launch a 24-hour news channel on cable and satellite systems in the United States as part of a new News Corp. platform. One month later, Murdoch asked Rodger Ailes to partner with him to create FOX News. In the early days of the newly created channel, rolling news coverage during the day consisted of 20-minute single-topic shows such as Fox on Crime or Fox on Politics, surrounded by news headlines. To promote the channel, Fox would pay each television provider up to 11 dollars per subscriber to distribute the channel. During the September 11, 2001 attacks, Fox News was the first news organization to run a news ticker on the bottom of the screen to keep up with the flow of information that day. The ticker has remained, informing viewers about additional news which reporters may not mention on-screen and repeating news mentioned during a broadcast; it has proven popular with viewers