Oh no...NEWSMAX starting 24hr news channel

[Atman]

Announced on Morning Scum. Now we'll have TWO Fox Newses. Their spokesman is saying they'll target an "older" audience than internet audience.

[Glitterati]

1. Good! They will put FAUX out of business

All the whackadoos will race to the nut channel!

[JHB]

2. "When getting inFOXicated just doesn't give you that high - dudgeon - anymore...

...come to NEWSMAX and mainline it! Do you love Freedom? Are you the Conservative Base? Then you're one of us! A Freebaser! NEWSMAX: Get the straight smack!"

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Read about their plan last week, right here on DU

I'll be surprised if they launch, shocked if they launch and survive 6 months.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014746845

[JHB]

4. It depends on their billionaire-support level

The biggest evangelists of the "free market" don't live in one.

[el_bryanto]

5. They'd have to determine that Newsmax was a good investment

I.E. Either they are reaching people they aren't with Fox News or they are able to have a more pure distillation of their message than with Fox News (in such a way that that purity benefits them).

Bryant

[Bluenorthwest]

10. It's way more complex than that. There is, however, something of a cottage industry

among conservatives around trying to make such deals. Here's the 2010 version....

Kelsey Grammer backs new conservative TV network


Kelsey Grammer is the front man in the RightNetwork, a new politically conservative TV network. First programs include 'Right2Laugh,' featuring stand up comedians, and 'Running' about Tea Party-backed candidates running for office.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/From-the-Wires/2010/0909/Kelsey-Grammer-backs-new-conservative-TV-network

[BlueCaliDem]

6. Can't have enough Koch Bros funded, pro-plutocracy propaganda outlets in the U.S.

[spanone]

7. our media is so deep in the shit hole, another faux won't matter...media is lost.

[Gothmog]

8. Yes, because Fox News is too liberal

This way they can discuss birth certificates 24 hours a day

[bullwinkle428]

9. Clearly, for those who think Fox News is WAY too liberal!

[winter is coming]

11. ... and by "24hr news" they mean that a year's worth of broadcasts will contain 24hrs of news. n/t