Fox News
The Fox News Channel, sometimes known simply as Fox News and stylised with all capital letters, is an American international conservative cable news television channel that is located in New York City. The channel's abbreviation is FNC, and its common name is Fox News. It is under the ownership of Fox News Media, which is in turn under the ownership of Fox Corporation. The majority of the channel's programming is transmitted from studios located at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. The foreign broadcasts of Fox News include portions from Fox Extra during the commercial breaks. Fox News is now available in 86 countries and overseas territories throughout the globe.
Rupert Murdoch, an Australian-American media magnate, hired Roger Ailes, a former Republican media consultant and executive at CNBC, to serve as the channel's initial CEO. Murdoch launched the channel with the intention of appealing to a conservative audience. On October 7, 1996, it was introduced to 17 million cable subscribers during its launch. Fox News emerged as the leading cable news subscription network in the United States between the late 1990s and the 2000s as a result of its rapid expansion. As of September 2018, around 87,118,000 homes in the United States had access to Fox News, which represented 90.8% of all television customers. With an average of 2.5 million viewers in 2019, Fox News maintained its position as the highest-rated cable news network. Since 2016, Rupert Murdoch has held the position of executive chairman, while Suzanne Scott has served as chief executive officer of the company since 2018.
Fox News has been accused of practising biassed reporting in favour of the Republican Party, its leaders, and conservative causes, while presenting the Democratic Party in a poor light. This is just one of the many problems that have arisen as a result of Fox News' actions. The channel is said to be harmful to the general credibility of the news, according to those who are critical of it. Fox News has always denied that it exhibits any kind of bias in its coverage of the news, and the official view of the channel is that its news reporting functions independently from its opinion journalism. Former workers of Fox News, however, have claimed that the network pressured them to "slant the news in favour of conservatives."