Last year, Lachlan Murdoch, CEO of the Fox Corporation, boasted that Fox was becoming less reliant on advertising thanks to its increasing carriage fees. And if the past is any indication, Fox is likely to leverage its sports and entertainment programming – including the World Cup, NFL, Bob’s Burgers and the Masked Singer – in this battle for higher carriage fees for Fox News. “That opened the floodgates,” Heresco says, and soon other networks were demanding small carriage fees from cable companies. By the time Fox News launched in 1996, broadcasters paying cable companies for carriage had become highly unusual. Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPAIn 2019, after Dish and Fox failed to come to an agreement, many Dish subscribers saw Fox channels go dark just before a new season of Thursday Night Football.

Source: Fox News August 15, 2023 16:24 UTC