The American right-wing news network Fox News has been pulled off the air in Britain after failing to appeal to the British audience.
“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,” 21st Century Fox, the network’s parent company, said in a statement.
“We have concluded that it is not in our commercial interest to continue providing Fox News in the UK,” the statement added.
Sources said that the channel was attracting only around 2,000 viewers a day after being aired in the UK for 15 years.
While the company insists that viewership was the only reason behind the decision, experts believe it was rather a strategic move by media mogul Rupert Murdoch to protect his £11.7 billion takeover bid for British broadcasting giant Sky.
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