America’s most popular cable “news” channel was taken off the air in the U.K. after 15 years, reports the Guardian. Fox News had been available as part of a Sky TV cable package. Both Fox News and Sky TV are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox. The official reason for Fox News’ takedown was that the right-wing channel only attracted around 2,000 viewers a day in the U.K. Here’s what a company spokesperson said when the news was announced:
“[Fox] has decided to cease providing a feed of Fox News Channel in the U.K. 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. We have concluded that it is not in our commercial interest to continue providing Fox News in the U.K.”
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