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Newsmax Accuses Fox News of Violating Antitrust Laws

NYT > Business > Media · Michael M. Grynbaum · last updated

The cable channel Newsmax on Wednesday accused Fox News of illegally cornering the market for conservative TV news, an unusual escalation in a long-running rivalry between two cable television networks.

In a case filed in U.S. District Court in Miami, Newsmax laid out what it called “an exclusionary scheme” by which it said that Fox News used bare-knuckle tactics to block its competitors and establish a near-monopoly in right-leaning pay TV news.

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