Roger Ailes Renews News Corp. Contract

Fox News chairman and CEO will head multiple divisions for four more years

Roger Ailes has signed a new four-year contract to remain chairman and CEO of Fox News and chairman of Fox Television Stations. The positions oversee multiple Fox properties, including Fox News, Fox Business Network, Twentieth Television and MyNetworkTV.

Ailes has been a polarizing figure in his years at News Corp., where he's the third-highest-paid executive behind Rupert Murdoch (whom he will continue to serve as senior advisor) and COO Chase Carey. He's led Fox News to total ratings dominance of its chief competitors, CNN and MSNBC, and he's given the network's conservative commentators (including bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity) a platform for a firebreathing style of opinion programming that proved as popular on linear cable as it had become on talk radio.

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