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On this day: Fox News hits our screens

Summary by City AM
On this day in 1996, Rupert Murdoch launched Fox News Channel and changed the American news landscape, writes Eliot Wilson Thirty years ago, 20th Century Fox was a film and animation production company. It had been purchased in 1985 by media magnate Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, the Australian taking US citizenship as a condition of the Federal Communications Commission approving the takeover. The next year, 1986, Murdoch launched a televis…
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City AM broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 7, 2025.
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