Sky News host Kristina Keneally: Australia is too small for a Fox News

Tim Burrowes

October 28, 2016 10:21

Australia’s population would be too small to support a full-time, Fox News style commentary-led news network, Sky News host Kristina Keneally has suggested.

Responding to a question at a breakfast discussion organised by the Online News Association in Sydney, Keneally – a former Labor premier of New South Wales – argued that the ultra-right wing Fox News serves a narrow niche, but is successful because of the size of the US population.

Keneally: Fox News narrowcasting won’t work in Oz

Sky News Australia is currently being fully acquired by News Corp. In the US, the highly-profitable Fox News is owned by News Corp’s sister company, 21st Century Fox.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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Rrrosco 28 Oct 16

Thank heavens for PVRs – not only are they good for flashing through those ultra-frequent and interminable ad breaks that Fox loves so much . . . but they allow me to shift FTA and other fox programs into the gap between Andrew Bolt and Paul Murray (and afterwards). Except for Tuesday night, of course – wouldn’t miss Alan Jones and Co for quids!

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K 31 Oct 16

So News’ solution to that is to take right wing nonsense into the mainstream via Sky?

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