Sitting here in a suburb of D.C. Christmas Eve 10:57p.m.

And the Fox channel announcer comes on and says that as of Jan.1st. Fox will no longer be on the Cox cable system due to the contract.

HUH!!????? anyone have any other info. on this!! seems very strange even if not related to CDC.

-- d----- (dciinc@aol.com), December 24, 1999

Answers

Fox news is merging with uh CBS right? My brother works for Cox. Fox is on 43 here, and they're complaining of a drop in ratings due to being so high on the dial, but Cox refuses a better slot, and says if Fox doesn't sign the contract by Jan then Cox will have to drop them.

These two companies have been running such a smear campaign on this BS issue for the past 2 months that I've even sent e-complaints to corporate offices, which is something I've never done. I thought it was confined to the Hampton Roads Cox/ Fox.

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 24, 1999.

thanks hokie---

In Nova they are on channel 5?

-- d----- (dciinc@aol.com), December 24, 1999.

Fox is merging with CBS???

Tell me it ain't so! Fox News is the main reason we hooked up a Direc TV receiver! It ain't perfect, but it ain't TVNooz. I'd "Rather" not see them turn into an extension of CBS "News".

*groan*...

(What's the frequency, Hoketh? [g])

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), December 25, 1999.

First saw this story on Alex Jones Infowars.com titled "Welcome to the New World Order", but didn't see it still there so did an AP search @ Dredge on "FOX News" and found this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- srv/aponline/19991220/aponline200349_000.htm

Networks Announce News Cooperative

By Frazier Moore

AP Television Writer

Monday, Dec. 20, 1999; 8:03 p.m. EST

NEW YORK  Three networks are joining their news services into a single domestic news cooperative, they announced Monday. Network News Service will consist of ABC NewsOne, CBS Newspath and Fox News Edge. NNS will collect video from the affiliates of all three news services, as well as the three network's newsgathering units and other sources, and supply this "raw video" back to ABC NewsOne, CBS Newspath and Fox News Edge.

Each network's news service will select from all of that day's NNS material for inclusion in its regular feeds to affiliates. Meanwhile, the three services will continue to operate as separate competing entities.

NBC is not part of the arrangement. "We think it's curious that we were not included in these discussions," said NBC spokeswoman Alex Constantinople. But neither NBC nor any other newsgathering outlet is excluded in the future, according to Bob Murphy, ABC senior vice president of news coverage.

"Bringing together three fiercely competitive organizations is a pretty difficult undertaking," Murphy said of NNS' formation. "To add a fourth or a fifth just makes the initial step that much more difficult."

Nothing in the arrangement prohibits talking to others who would subsequently participate, he said.

"NNS will be particularly important to breaking news coverage," said Roger Ailes, Fox News chairman. "It will dramatically enhance the ability of each network news service to cover breaking stories by offering more than one source of video."

CBS News president Andrew Heyward added that the new arrangement "enables each network news service to devote more resources to its own coverage ... which will ultimately differentiate one station or one service from its competitors."

All three news organizations will be equal partners in NNS. Each will contribute people, money and facilities. The senior executives of all three news organizations will manage NNS, which will be coordinated from a single newsroom located in the CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan.

) Copyright 1999 The Associated Press

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 25, 1999.

..But isn't "cooperative" a cutsie term for "communist"? One news agency, under guard, with liberty and justice for all"...

Yep, I'm bummed too!

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 25, 1999.

Give it a week, it will all work out for you tv junkies.

Glad I tossed mine out years ago.

-- (tv@junkies.com), December 25, 1999.

I hardly think that buying a receiver to be able to watch Fox News qualifies me as a TV junkie.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), December 25, 1999.

You people are acting like we're going to have POWER after Jan. 1

:0)

R.

-- Roland (nottelling@nowhere.com), December 25, 1999.