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This is an archive of news about Fox News Channel. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

US advertising: McMorning Las Vegas, here's the news
From Media Guardian. Posted July 22 2008, 11.04pm
The growth of product placement on US TV shows has taken another controversial step with the introduction of McDonald's iced coffee front of Fox News anchors in regional news programmes. By Ed Pilkington (more)

Showbiz reporter Neil Sean leaves Sky News for Fox
From Media Guardian. Posted June 27 2008, 6.46am
Sky News showbiz reporter Neil Sean is switching to News Corporation sister station Fox News. By Tara Conlan (more)

Fox News anchor ED HIll taken off air after Obama 'terrorist fist jab' gaffe
From Media Guardian. Posted June 13 2008, 10.24am
ED Hill has lost her show a week after suggesting Barack Obama and his wife Michelle's victory gesture could be a 'terrorist fist jab'. By Mark Sweney (more)

Fox News anchor ED HIll taken off air after Barack Obama 'terrorist fist jab' gaffe
From Media Guardian. Posted June 13 2008, 10.24am
ED Hill has lost her show a week after suggesting Barack Obama and his wife Michelle's victory gesture could be a 'terrorist fist jab'. By Mark Sweney (more)

Burnham refuses to relax TV rules
From Financial Times. Posted June 12 2008, 1.12am
The culture secretary used his first big speech on broadcasting to voice opposition to product placement and Fox News-style partiality in UK television and radio news (more)

Murdoch intervenes in Olbermann-O'Reilly row
From Media Guardian. Posted May 19 2008, 4.54pm
The longstanding row between conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly of Fox News and a liberal rival on MSNBC network has climbed up the corporate ladder, with Fox owner Rupert Murdoch personally interceding in the US television stars' war of words (more)

Fox News Channel launches in HD
From Digital Spy. Posted May 5 2008, 8.59am
A high definition version of Fox News Channel is launching in the US. (more)

Fox News ad cleared by advertising watchdog
From Press Gazette. Posted April 30 2008, 12.00am
An advertisement for News Corporation which described Fox News as a "pioneer of fair and balanced news coverage" has escaped censure from the British advertising watchdog. (more)

Emily Bell: Face it – Fox News isn't something to aspire to
From Media Guardian. Posted April 6 2008, 11.02pm
Opinion, Emily Bell: With the Public Service Broadcasting review from media regulator Ofcom about to hove into view over the horizon, there has been some preliminary policy-debating activity (more)

Media Talk podcast: Kevin Spacey attacks the BBC and Evan Davis' first week on Today
From Media Guardian. Posted April 4 2008, 9.54am
The panel discuss Kevin Spacey's rant against the BBC. Plus, Evan Davis's first week on Today. And, has Rupert Murdoch got the green light for Fox News UK? (more)

CNN suffers in US ratings squeeze
From Rapid TV News. Posted December 4 2007, 8.39pm
Fox News continues to do reasonably well in the US cable news market. So does MSNBC. (more)

Murdoch: Fox-esque Sky News "more popular"
From Digital Spy. Posted November 26 2007, 2.31pm
Rupert Murdoch says that Sky News would become more popular if it emulated Fox News in the US. (more)

Murdoch wants Sky News to be more like rightwing Fox
From Media Guardian. Posted November 24 2007, 12.01am
The media mogul Rupert Murdoch has said he wants Sky News to become more like his rightwing US network Fox News, and revealed the extent of his editorial grip on his British newspapers to a House of Lords committee (more)

Murdoch: Sky could be more like Fox News
From Press Gazette. Posted November 23 2007, 12.00am
Sky News would be more popular if it were more like the US Fox News Channel, and could do so without a change to UK impartiality rules, Rupert Murdoch has told a Lords committee. (more)

Kidnappers release video of Fox News journalists
From Press Gazette. Posted August 23 2006, 3.22pm
A previously unknown Palestinian group who kidnapped two Fox News journalists have demanded the release of Muslim prisoners in the US within 72 hours before they will set the American men free. (more)

Kidnapped journalists on TV
From Media Guardian. Posted August 23 2006, 1.00am
3.30pm update: Two Fox News journalists kidnapped last week in Gaza appeared today on a videotape broadcast on al-Jazeera appealing for their release. By Chris Tryhorn. (more)

Abbas to meet with Fox News over journalists kidnapped in Gaza
From Press Gazette. Posted August 16 2006, 2.14pm
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has scheduled a meeting with Fox News' team in the Middle East to resolve the predicament of two of the channel's journalists who were kidnapped on Monday. (more)

Talk Show Host Rusty Humphries Fingers Culprits For Fox News Kidnapping
From radio.about.com. Posted August 16 2006, 6.08am
Rusty Humphries believes it is the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade terrorist group has kidnapped Fox News reporter, Steve Centanni and cameraman, Olaf Wiig. Previously, Humphries met... (more)

Radio Talk Show Host Rusty Humphries Fingers Culprits For Fox News Kidnapping
From radio.about.com. Posted August 16 2006, 6.08am
Rusty Humphries believes it is the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade terrorist group which has kidnapped Fox News reporter, Steve Centanni and cameraman, Olaf Wiig. Previously, Humphries... (more)

Fox News crew kidnapped in Gaza
From Press Gazette. Posted August 15 2006, 11.12am
Two Fox News journalists have been kidnapped in Gaza by Palestinian gunmen. (more)

Murdoch's Fox News gets one of five Serbian national TV licences
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 21 2006, 1.41pm
The News Corp-owned US television network Fox was the only foreign broadcaster among five TV stations selected on 20 April to operate national networks in Serbia. Serbia's Broadcasting Agency Council also allocated national frequencies to B92, Avala, Pink and Kosava-Happy, all based in Belgrade, the Radio B92 text website reported. Subotica-based Super TV was given a licence to broadcast in the (more)