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From Variety:
The Fox News Channel has muscled into the top tier of cable carriage. But it hasn't scored quite as much money as it first sought.
Channel will more than triple its monthly fee in a new carriage deal inked with Cablevision, the nation's sixth largest cable operator.
Deal, reached a week after the previous agreement expired, pays News Corp. an average of just over 75¢ per subscriber per month over the course of multiple years. That's less than the $1 per sub the channel had wanted but nonetheless vaults FNC into the ranks of the five most-expensive national cable nets. (That roster also includes ESPN, TNT, Disney Channel and USA Network.)
New deal between Cablevision and Fox News sets a template for talks with other major cable operators, such as Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and Comcast. FNC's high fee also may make things tougher for CNN and MSNBC when they come to the table to reup with cable and satellite operators, who already feel they're getting squeezed by the news nets. CNN currently gets about 44¢ per subscriber, MSNBC 15¢.
Cablevision was the first cabler to carry Fox News Channel back in 1996, when News Corp. paid millions to secure carriage for its fledgling news net and accepted 10-year deals that paid the web 25¢ per subscriber per month.
That was long before Fox News blew past CNN in the ratings and became a cultural phenomenon behind its "Fair and Balanced" slogan, big personalities like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity and previously unknown anchors like Shepard Smith.
Other MSM outlets may want to take note: standing up for America equals more viewers and more success.
