Roku Will Stop Offering Fox Channels To Users on February 1 (inputmag.com) 55
An anonymous reader shares a report: Without giving users a justification, Roku just announced via mass email that after January 31, 2020, all Fox "standalone" channels with no longer be available on the service's streaming boxes or TVs equipped with its software. The email states that "You can still watch FOX channels through these services: FuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, SlingTV, YouTube TV and other live TV services," and goes on to add that "If you have a Roku TV, you may be able to receive FOX over the air with an antenna." The company hasn't issued an official public statement on the change, but according to its support account on Twitter and a statement from a company spokesperson, the move is triggered by the end of its distribution contract with Fox. It appears Roku and Fox are handling their contract negotiations in public view, with users' experience hanging in the balance. It's always possible Fox and Roku could come to an 11th hour agreement.
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Greta Thunberg.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Donald Trump
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Obama.
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In your gym, or tire shop, or local Dunkin' Donuts.
It's like living in North Korea and having to watch state TV wherever you go.
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MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC.
Seriously, those channels are the ones intent on pushing the white supremacist narrative. You wouldn't even know these vanishingly small contingent of people even existed if they were constantly pushed by the Democrat media.
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Outside of urban areas you will run into real white supremacists on occasion. Generally, 99% of them are all talk, but a small percentage of them are not, and have been known to plan and commit heinous acts such as the Black church shooting a year ago. For this reason, though not at all numerous, they should be watched.
On the other hand, ALL leftists/socialists/communists are dangerous, and they are EVERYWHERE. I would love to find a better solution than the one suggested by Montana senator Rodney Garcia
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."
Good riddance (FX movies and friends) (Score:4, Informative)
This streaming channel is filled with commercials, plus they tend to take down Fox TV shows older than X months. Have FX subscription and want to watch The Americans or Fargo? Forget it, they're not on FXNow.
Re:Good riddance (FX movies and friends) (Score:5, Insightful)
This streaming channel is filled with commercials
So it's like anything else on TV?
Something about a Soup Bowl? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Something about a Soup Bowl? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure what this is all about, but some of my non-geek friends are telling me this is a big deal. Something about a bowl of soup being shown on February 2nd that everyone is interested in but that you can only get from Fox?
February 2nd, eh? You knew a lot more about the super bowl than I did.
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No, I think it has to do with some outstanding, or superb, owl. A nature show?
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Nice to see you support draft dodgers.
Re: Something about a Soup Bowl? (Score:1)
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nah.
Real men go out and play the game themselves, or do something productive instead.
Trump 2020.
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You misheard them. It's the Superb Owl.
Will be back by game time end users will see high (Score:4, Insightful)
Will be back by game time end users will see higher bill
Superbowl (Score:4, Interesting)
I believe the Superbowl is planning to be aired in 4K for the first time on Fox streaming apps. I'm guessing Fox is using this as leverage to put the screws on Roku for negotiating. Should be interesting to see how this resolves.
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Thank goodness I have some trustworthy and unbiased news sources available to me. Like RT and Al Jazeera.
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I find that Al Jazeera and BBC News actually give a different light to the topics at hand.
All reporting is bias. However other countries news will show a unique bias that we are not familiar with.
With out political climate it seems that every view point has a binary response to, because the citizenship has fell into 3 camps Liberals, Conservatives, or just don't care.
Other countries can see America not by these political leanings, but by how our actions work.
A New York City Republican may be more Liberal th
Re: is it really a loss though? (Score:1)
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Wish I had mod points.
This is the thing. It isn't the lies you hear, it's the truth that you don't hear that hurts.
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I find that Al Jazeera and BBC News actually give a different light to the topics at hand...
the English language version of NHK is fairly good too.
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You can find a much more substantive and academically rigorous analysis of various news sources here. [adfontesmedia.com]
BTW, Anderson Cooper is on CNN, not MSNBC.
Re: is it really a loss though? (Score:1)
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I'd like to know how you define rigorous.
I picked a couple of the low ranking stories for quality. For the Daily Wire. One is about an abortion bill, and the story mostly just direct quotes. The other is about a campus sexual assault case, and the story is little more than list of evidence from court documents. The only way I could see these as being "low quality" is if the person doing the ranking didn't happen to like the data presented.
As always, the most important thing to know about a critic is if
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I said the study is academically rigorous, meaning they define and follow their methodology, and take measures to handle potential bias in the researchers. [adfontesmedia.com]
As for Daily Wire, there is a spread in the evaluations of their articles. [adfontesmedia.com] I assume the summary chart shows the mean score of them.
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You're going to have to give a definition of what you mean by "rigorous".
I picked a conservative sight, since they are usually the targets of bias, an chose several articles that they ranked as low quality. Every single one was well documented from sources such as court records.
This article [dailywire.com] got an 18 out of 64 for quality.
This one [dailywire.com] got a 19.
This recitation of court records [dailywire.com] did get up to 20.
I can't find any criteria they list for what they consider to be "quality". This doesn't seem to be very rigorous at
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Wait. I found their methodology [adfontesmedia.com], though they did a good job of trying to hide it.
According to the site, their "rating algorithm" is proprietary, and the rest is in fact the opinion of the readers they can get to provide feedback.
Slashdot's moderation system is as "rigorous" as this is.
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Seems to sum the networks up quite well. Too bad Roku can't stop offering all these useless channels instead of only dropping FOX.
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Goddamn......where are my mod points when I need them? Awesome post!
supposedly Roku takes a cut of the ad monies (Score:2)
and the channels are starting to fight back against this nonsense
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yes, you have to google it but apparently they have some backend plan to make money from ads viewed on their devices. if the apps don't pay, they get kicked off
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The first because they were neutral. Google, Apple, and Amazon have their own streaming hardware but due to them also having content of their own, certain restrictions apply. Intentional incompatibilities. The consumer suffers and ultimately has to purchase 2 or all 3 of these to see the same content at times. Roku doesn't/didn't have that since they aren't also a media giant.
The other
Justification (Score:4, Interesting)
Without giving users a justification . . . . but according to its support account on Twitter and a statement from a company spokesperson, the move is triggered by the end of its distribution contract with Fox.
Claims no justification, then provides justification.
SMH
Orange man bad! (Score:1)
Lol, and please stop telling me that communist China is the bad Apple.
Not one dime! (Score:2)
What exactly is being lost...? (Score:2)
Click bait. Children can't read. (Score:1)
Yarrrrr..... (Score:2)