ox News Channel (FNC), also known as Fox News, is an American basic cable and satellite news television channel that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. As of February 2015, approximately 94,700,000 American households (81.4% of cable, satellite & telco customers) receive the Fox News Channel.[1] The channel broadcasts primarily from studios at 1211 Avenue of the Americas.
The channel was created by Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who hired former Republican Party media consultant and NBC executive Roger Ailes as its founding CEO.[2] It launched on October 7, 1996,[3] to 17 million cable subscribers.[4] It grew during the late 1990s and 2000s to become the dominant cable news network in the United States.[5]
Fox News Channel has been accused of biased reporting and promoting the Republican Party.[6][7] The channel has also been cited as detrimental to the integrity of news overall.[8][9] Fox News Channel employees have responded that news reporting operates independently of its opinion and entertainment, and have denied bias in news reporting.[10]