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While NFL ratings have dipped the last couple of years, their television rights are still a hot property.

Disney’s expected takeover of large parts of the Fox media empire could make Fox’s prospective purchase of Sky News in the UK more likely, experts have claimed.

They kept us waiting right ’til the end of the year – but I think I might just have spotted the Worst Movie of 2017.

Sports Media Watch has a great resource for the National Football League’s ratings since 2014 and a glance through the listings for this season through Week 13 offers a sea of red fields showing just how badly the league’s TV ratings have suffered this year.

Even as ratings continue to fall for the NFL’s games, the ratings for the various Sunday pregame shows on the broadcast networks have also cratered.

Sky has warned it could shut down Sky News if questions over the Murdoch family’s influence on Britain’s media landscape impede its purchase by 21st Century Fox.

Fox CEO James Murdoch is worried about the collapsing ratings for pro football but thinks the drop is due to “over saturation” and not because of the league’s constant protests during the national anthem.

At any other point in history a magazine calling itself Sports Illustrated, putting out a cover which had no sports in it, might seem odd. Then again, few other points in history have been as dumb as 2017.

With President Donald J. Trump entering the anthem debate, expect player protests aplenty at NFL Stadiums around the country. Also expect some very good games, with the Atlanta Falcons-Detroit Lions game at the top of the list.

If NFL fans continue to turn away from football, the TV networks could lose as much as $200 million in earnings, according to a new report.

The NFL was underwhelming during the first week of the season, and merely whelming during the second week. Fox saw a massive ratings surge in Week 2, however, CBS and NBC saw their numbers go down compared to last year.

With the 2017-18 NFL season fairly begun, many are wondering how the broadcast networks will cover the expected national anthem protests, and a recent story shows broadcasters pledging to cover the protests without making a big deal of them.

Fox is in early talks to reboot the popular animated blue-collar comedy series King of the Hill for the era of Donald Trump’s presidency, says chairman and CEO of Fox Television Group Dana Walden.

After a stunted 10-episode order, the Fox baseball series “Pitch” has officially struck out.

A group of hackers, known as The Dark Overlord (TDO), have leaked all ten episodes of the upcoming season of the Netflix hit series Orange Is the New Black after the streaming giant refused to meet the group’s ransom demands.

I just watched Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, get eaten alive by Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace.

Fox has ordered a new reality series titled You the Jury that will let viewers at home vote to decide the outcome of real civil court cases.

Sunday’s episode of FOX’s post-apocalyptic comedy series The Last Man on Earth imagines a world where President Donald Trump’s entire administration is killed off.

NBC’s reboot of The Celebrity Apprentice with new host Arnold Schwarzenegger capped off a rocky first season Monday night by finishing in last place among all broadcast networks in the 9 p.m. hour, with initial ratings for the season finale episode matching the series’ lowest.

The stars of some of FOX’s biggest shows are featured in a new Super Bowl advertisement aimed at promoting “the great many things that unite us” on Super Bowl Sunday.

New Fox comedy The Mick features praise for abortion business Planned Parenthood as an organization that “provides health care to over three million women in this country.”

Fox’s primetime crime drama Lucifer went out of its way Monday night to condemn President-elect Donald Trump.

The fall television season is in for a rocky start as the five broadcast TV networks have all seen double-digit percentage ratings drops in the key adult demo, according to a report.

Taking a cue from several critically acclaimed television shows that have already broached the subject, the highly anticipated third season of Fox’s hip-hop soap opera Empire will address police violence and include themes related to the Black Lives Matter movement.

As Fox prepares to bring Lethal Weapon to the television screen in a series format, the network has made clear that images of guns will not be allowed in advertisements for the program.

Homer and Marge Simpson are “With Her.”

Jim Rutenberg, Ben Protess, and Emily Steel report at the NY Times: Executives at 21st Century Fox decided to end the tenure of Roger Ailes after lawyers they hired to investigate an allegation of sexual harassment against him took statements from

A forgetful blue tang fish vanquished the universe’s most menacing aliens at the box office as Hollywood’s disappointing summer continues.

Fox has shown some amazing gall, exploiting YouTube’s DMCA policies to protect a video clip that doesn’t even belong to them.

Megyn Kelly is not taking criticism of her Fox primetime special very well.

Ratings for Megyn Kelly’s sit-down interview with Donald Trump were “far behind CBS and NBC offerings.”

The first trailer for Fox’s remake of the 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show debuted online this week.

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that “we have got to think about ways that the Democratic Party, for a start, starts funding the equivalent of Fox television” during an interview broadcast on Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel

Megyn Kelly’s star-studded Fox special just got a little starrier: Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas and former O.J. Simpson “Dream Team” defense attorney Robert Shapiro will join GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on the Fox News anchor’s primetime Megyn Kelly Presents program next month.

Waylon Smithers, the devoted personal assistant of billionaire Mr. Burns on the long-running animated Fox show The Simpsons, will come out as gay on Sunday’s episode.

Helen Hunt, Richard Dreyfuss, and Stephen Moyer have all joined Fox network’s upcoming racially-charged “event” TV series Shots Fired.