CNN is reporting today that 21st Century Fox, the owner of FOX News, has pulled the rightwing news channel off the air in the UK, after failing to attract an audience there.
"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.," 21st Century Fox said in a statement.
"We have concluded that it is not in our commercial interest to continue providing Fox News in the U.K.," it added.
In addition, the Murdoch-owned FOX News has become a lightning rod for criticism in the UK for everything Murdoch. Seems they don’t take too keenly on monopolistic media practices over there. As The Deadline reports:
The decision was made as the country’s Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport weighs whether to ask the Competition and Markets Authority to review Fox’s £11.6 billion ($14.6 billion) bid to acquire the 61% of Sky that it does not already own. Sky is the country’s top pay TV provider.
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the change could factor into culture secretary Karen Bradley’s thinking days after she received the “additional advice” she sought early this month from media regulator Ofcom about the Fox-Sky deal.
Either way, score one for the good guys.