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Fox News' Roger Ailes Earned $19.9 Million Last Year

Matt Haber — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:48:20 -0400

Are you better off than you were a year ago? If you're Roger Ailes, you sure are.

According to Silicon Alley Insider's Peter Kafka, the Fox News president and chairman earned an unbelievable $19.9 million in the last 12 months, according to S.E.C. filings from News Corp.

"What did he do to earn that?" Mr. Kafka asks. We wonder the same since in July, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reported that the Fox Business Network averaged 8,000 viewers during the day, as noted by Felix Gillette.

Per Mr. Kafka:

Primarily, he ran Fox News, which is still crushing the competition. read more »

Zuckerman Would Be Crazy To Run for Mayor, Zuckerman Says

Tom Acitelli — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:26:16 -0400

Boston Properties chairman Mort Zuckerman appeared on Fox Business Channel on Wednesday. He talked about his record buy of the GM Building, the development at the World Trade Center site, and the foreign investment in city real estate. He also, apropos of nothing (as far as we can tell), took himself out of the 2009 mayoral campaign:

“If you ever hear anybody or me talking about that, you have the right to send me to a serious shrink.”
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Fox Business Channel Sees Oct. 15 Launch

Observer Staff — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:42:51 -0400

Much has been said of Rupert Murdoch's planned Fox Business Channel, and how it makes his bid to buy Dow Jones, Inc. necessary.

But even as Mr. Murdoch appears to grow "frustrated" with talks to purchase Dow Jones, the launch of News Corp's Fox Business channel is going ahead as planned, according to a statement released yesterday afternoon and posted on mediabistro.com: read more »