Sky stops broadcasting US channel Fox News
Hannah Boland
29 August 2017 • 11:25pm
Media and Telecoms industry
Rupert Murdoch has stopped broadcasting Fox News in the UK after 15 years, ahead of a government decision over whether to refer 21st Century Fox's planned takeover of Sky to competition regulators.
21st Century Fox, which is owned by Mr Murdoch, said it was withdrawing the channel from Sky as it was no longer in the company's "commercial interest" to continue broadcasting it in the UK.
Fox News was no longer available in the UK from 4pm on Tuesday.
"Fox News is focused on the US market and designed for a US audience and, accordingly, it averages only a few thousand viewers across the day in the UK," a Fox spokesman said.
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