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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Fox News getting subsidies? No way they make money off ads
Person a couple seats over on my flight is watching Faux. Theyre largely ignoring the constitutional crisis involving their Der Twitler. But when it goes to commercial, theyre the most ridiculous ads I could think of. Worse than 3am on a digital sub channel.
Life Lock something. Some investment vehicle. Lawsuits over roundup where you, too, can seek compensation
Pitiful
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)them through the back door.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)I'm sure advertisers are willing to pay a lot to be there, whether we like it or not. Hannity alone regularly hits 3 million viewers.
Fox makes a fortune off ads.
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)But logic doesnt sell as well here as weird conspiracy theories. Of course Fox makes money.
pstokely
(10,530 posts)advertisers will be pay more for younger viewers
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Faux gets money f I'm canle and satellite providers. They are not profitable based on advertising revenue alone.
pstokely
(10,530 posts)they'll be facing the same problem the tobacco makers have, getting younger replacements
leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)Somebody is funding them. A superstar like Sean Hannity doesn't work for peanuts, ya know!
It would be interesting to review their in depth financials too. The Mercers? Foster Friess? Kochs?
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)or adult diaper brands to sustain Fox. They gotta be getting kickbacks somewhere.
That or there are a lot of Fox viewers with erectile disfunction.
unblock
(52,317 posts)It's tailor-made for hucksters.
Perfect for the sort of ad that rational people would dismiss as complete crap but which suckers would open their wallets for. Same as they do for everything else on that channel
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)So, it's not as if any significant component of their finances is a secret.
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)That would be quite a trick, given that there are people who own shares in public companies solely for the purpose of having standing to bring derivative suits against those companies. It is something of a cottage industry in some legal circles.
If you have reason to believe that they are lying to the shareholders and the SEC, your information is worth big bucks. What are you waiting for?
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)NOMOGOP
(87 posts)getting paid. I would bet my life on it. There is NO WAY they all say the same thing at the same time. NO WAY. There are 20 "pastors" who, combined, have millions of "followers". I spend more time than i would like to admit watching these freaks. They talk about politics ALL THE TIME. If you are dumb enough to believe in invisible man in the sky, you are dumb enough to vote Republikkkkan.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)hunter
(38,326 posts)That's one reason I don't have a cable or satellite subscription.
Everyone who has satellite or cable television subscription is subsidizing Fox News.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)They get high volume of revenue and invest nothing into an infrastructure to obtain news.
jpljr77
(1,004 posts)or MSNBC. At least, it was a couple of years ago. Since MSNBC has caught up in ratings, it may have evened out. But I suspect that the Fox rate is still much higher because their audience is an advertiser's wet dream (highly...let's say, impressionable).
Carriage rate is a per subscriber fee paid by a cable provider (Comcast, for example), to a network, Fox News in this case. Fox's rate was around $1.50 per subscriber per month. So if Comcast has 30,000,000 subscribers, that's $45,000,000 paid to Fox News each month just for Comcast. They have agreements with every cable provider.
And they are near the top of the heap as far as rates go. In fact, they might be #2, a distant #2 as ESPN famously commands a rate above $5, but they are the clear kings.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)pharma ads, cars, insurance etc. they're doing fine.
JI7
(89,264 posts)call in and get your limited edition gold maga hat .................................