Wednesday, March 6, 2013

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News9 new results for FOX
 
Fox Sports launches direct challenge to ESPN dominance
USA TODAY
NEW YORK -- Fox, in Tuesday announcing a Fox Sports 1 sports cable channel launching Aug 17, is mounting what executives say will be a direct challenge to ESPN. "Our hope is that we can be equally professional" with ESPN, says David Hill, who headed ...
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Fox to Launch Sports Cable Network
Wall Street Journal
"We believe we have amassed enough live events … where we have scale, where we can have significance and where we can become a major player in the market," Randy Freer, co-president of Fox Sports Media Group, said during a news conference ...
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Mid-life optimism linked to healthier cholesterol
Fox News
U.S. researchers found better levels of "good cholesterol" and other markers of heart health in the blood of middle-aged study subjects with a sunny outlook on life. At least some of the connection between optimism and blood lipids in the new study ...
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Venezuelans in US hopeful of change after Chavez death
Fox News
DORAL, Fla. – Cheering Venezuelans in the U.S. waved their country's flag and anxiously voiced hope that change would come to their homeland after the death Tuesday of long-ruling populist President Hugo Chavez. "He's gone!" dozens in a largely ...
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Hoping to challenge ESPN, Fox betting big on UFC
Yahoo! Sports
Fox Sports wants to compete directly with ESPN, and one of the staples of its plan will be its UFC programming. Cain Velasquez, Bruce Buffer and Anderson Silva pose for a photo Tuesday. (Getty)Tuesday's announcement of the creation and Aug. 17 launch ...
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California woman denied CPR wanted no intervention, family says
Fox News
The family of an 87-year-old woman who was denied CPR at a California independent living home by a woman who identified herself to a 911 dispatcher as a nurse says she chose to live in a facility without medical staff and wanted to pass away without ...
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Murdoch's Fox Sports on Path to Profit With Yankees Games
Bloomberg
Rupert Murdoch's 15-year drive to create a competitor to Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s ESPN has put News Corp. (NWSA)'s new national sports network on a path to show a profit within two to three years. Fox Sports 1, announced yesterday by New York-based ...
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Transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox faces licensing problems
SI.com
Fallon Fox is bracing herself for controversy, and as the first on-record transgender female fighter in mixed martial arts, she's going to get plenty of it. On Monday, the 37-year-old Fox (2-0) revealed exclusively to SI.com that she's a transgender ...
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New video game detects vision problems in children
Fox News
Technology is changing the way we view the world, and the American education system is no exception. With as many as one in four children living with undiagnosed vision disorders that may be affecting their performance in school, it's more important ...
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Blogs5 new results for FOX
 
Daily Kos: Fox News still not good at this whole jourmalism thing
By rss@dailykos.com (Hunter)
A paragraph from a Fox News story (no author specified) on the impact of sequestration: The Agriculture Department's programs for the poor also will see cuts in March, including the Women, Infants and Children program, which must cut its ...
Daily Kos
Fox Covers Up Latest Developments Undermining Daily Caller's ...
Fox News has gone silent after questions emerged casting serious doubt on a Daily Caller report that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) paid women for sex in the Dominican Republic, a report that Fox News hyped during at least 22 segments.
Media Matters for America - County Fair
Regis Philbin will host a Fox Sports show - Zap2it
By Laurel Brown
Regis Philbin may be back on our televisions soon -- the former host of “Live! With Regis and Kelly” spilled that he's planning a sports show on the soon-to-be-announced Fox Sports 1 cable network.
From Inside the Box
Fox Sports 1 Hopes to Grow Into ESPN Rival | Media - Advertising Age
By jpoggi@adage.com (Jeanine Poggi)
With Fox Sports 1 now in play, how much demand will there be from advertisers who currently rely on ESPN to reach the coveted 18-to-49 male audience?
Advertising Age - Homepage
Epic fail: Kids school 'Fox & Friends' hosts on basic math | The Raw ...
By David Edwards
The hosts of Fox News' morning show on Tuesday proved that many adults have poor math skills by failing a simple quiz from their own children in an epic way. Fox & Friends hosts Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade noted ...
The Raw Story

Web5 new results for FOX
 
Boy, 7, suspended for shaping pastry into gun, dad says | Fox News
A 7-year-old Maryland boy was suspended from school for two days for shaping a breakfast pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun.
www.foxnews.com/.../boy-7-suspended-for-shaping-pastry-int...
'Fox News Sunday' Exclusive Preview: Mitt and Ann Romney ...
This Sunday, Mitt and Ann Romney sit down with Chris Wallace in their first interview since the election. From the key issues to what's on the political horizon, ...
foxnewsinsider.com/.../fox-news-sunday-exclusive-preview-m...
Mitt Romney's First Post-Election Interview: 'It ... - Fox News Insider
In a Fox News Sunday exclusive, Chris Wallace sat down with Mitt and Ann Romney in their first interview since losing the presidential election.
foxnewsinsider.com/.../mitt-romneys-first-post-election-intervi...
Fox News' Ailes: 'Newt's a prick'; Biden 'dumb as an ashtray' | The ...
From the blog The Ticket: Fox News chief Roger Ailes reportedly called Newt Gingrich a "sore loser" after the former House Speaker complained that the ...
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Regis Philbin? Fox's new sports channel going outside box ...
NEW YORK -- Fox proved television was ready for a fourth major network, and Fox News took on CNN.
www.twincities.com/.../regis-philbin-foxs-new-sports-channel-...

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