Ailes Expanding His Empire To Include “The Station Group’s News Operations?”

Jack Abernathy, a “key lieutenant” of Roger Ailes, is “toiling at Fox-owned TV stations and injecting a healthy dose of what has worked for Ailes’ cable news machine,” B&C’s J. Max Robins writes in his weekly column. This aside at last week’s Ailes/Auletta chat “added fuel to recent speculation about Ailes’ wanting to expand his empire within News Corp. to include the station group’s news operations.”