Fox Launches Its News Channel, But Manhattanites Can't Get It
NEW YORK — With a few scoops and first-day glitches, News Corp. ‘s Fox News Channel, the third national 24-hour cable-news outlet, launched on schedule at 6 a.m. Monday. But an escalating battle with Time Warner Inc. kept the channel largely invisible in Manhattan, the nation’s media capital and the channel’s home base.
With the channel still fighting for a place on Time Warner’s Manhattan cable system, Fox set up a viewing room for TV critics. What they saw was a professional-looking, not particularly glitzy lineup of 10-minute newscasts each half hour, followed by in-depth reports.
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