• StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Matt is right, but it’s awfully convenient to say it now and not when his show was popularising Fox on it’s rise to dominance, despite being a fascist shitbag TV network. 30 years too late Matt.

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      4 days ago

      Fox and Fox News are different channels. Also, the former is owned by Disney now.

      • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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        4 days ago

        What you say is both true, and completely irrelevant and misleading. The Simpsons’ heydays were during Fox’s meteoric rise to pre-eminence and at the time Fox News not only supplied Fox with their newsroom coverage they were owned by the same parent at the time. Being owned by Disney now is immaterial to my previous comment.

        From wikipedia

        Fox went on to become the most successful attempt at a fourth television network; it was also the highest-rated free-to-air network in the 18–49 demographic from 2004 to 2012 and 2020 to 2021 and was the most-watched American television network in total viewership during the 2007–08 season.[3][4] It is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters. Fox does not have network newscasts of its own due to its lack of a news division, and instead relies on the 24-hour Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network to supply news programming to the network.

        And regarding Fox News

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News

        The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City, U.S.[3][4] It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owned by Fox Corporation.[5] It is the most-watched cable news network in the U.S.,[6][7] and as of 2023 it generates approximately 70% of its parent company’s pre-tax profit.