TV viewers in the United Kingdom will likely not miss watching Fox News, as the network’s parent company 21st Century Fox announced on Tuesday that the company would pull the channel amid low ratings. “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 provided to CNN. (21st Century Fox owns a controlling stake in Sky PLC, the parent company of the London-headquartered network.) HuffPost UK reports that if the takeover is successful, it would give Fox mogul Rupert Murdoch access to Sky’s 22 million customers in Europe. Sky ceased broadcasting Fox News on Tuesday at 4 p.m.

Source: Huffington Post August 30, 2017 10:07 UTC